MINERVA RESEARCH FOUNDATION

The Minerva Research Foundation is a charitable trust that was founded in 1993 to promote research in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences and to encourage the participation of women in these disciplines. The policy of the foundation is to support specific selected areas of study with the hope of making a meaningful contribution to these areas. The plan of the foundation is to sponsor conferences and seminars on certain topics in probability and statistics and to offer grants to institutions and individuals who are conducting research in these topics.

Department of Statistics, Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, stands among America’s highest-ranked, most diverse public research universities. The oldest, largest, and top-ranked public university in the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area, it is an academic, health, and research powerhouse and a university of opportunity.