Undergraduate Research Resources
Index
Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Student Programs
Conferences and Workshops
Student Research Journals
Funding Opportunities
Other Resources
Mentoring Undergraduate Research
- Increasing Persistence of College Students in STEM, by M. J. Graham and colleagues, in Science, vol. 341, pp. 1455-1456
- How to Mentor Undergraduate Researchers, by C.A. Merkel and S.M. Baker, from the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR)
- Mentoring Undergraduates in Summer Research Programs, from the Leadership Alliance
- Resources for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics, from the MAA
- What Students Say About Their REU Experience, by Frank Connelly and Joseph A. Gallian, in Proceedings of Conference on Promoting Undergraduate Research (2006), pp. 233-236
- Panel on Models for Engaging Undergraduate Students in Research, by the AMS Committee on Education, Joint Mathematics Meetings 2012
- Obtaining Funding and Support for Undergraduate Research by Michael Dorff and Darren Narayan
Undergraduate Student Programs
Guides to undergraduate programs
- American Mathematical Society
- Association for Women in Mathematics
- Mathematical Association of America
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Summer REUs
- NSF REU sites
- REUs list from AMS
- MAA National Research Experience for Undergraduates Program (NREUP) site list
- MSRI-UP (focus on underrepresented students)
- Research and Enrichment Experience for Underrepresented Undergraduate Students (REU+) at NC State
- Committee on Institutional Cooperation Summer Research Opportunities Program (focus on underrepresented students)
Other summer programs
- EDGE (for women entering their 1st or 2nd year of graduate school)
- IAS Women and Mathematics Program
- Government list of summer opportunities
- Nebraska IMMERSE: Intensive Mathematics: a Mentoring, Education and Research Summer Experience
- Cornell Summer Math Institute: Allows 12-14 undergraduate students to explore the world of mathematics and prepare for the rigors of graduate school.
Conferences and Workshops
For students
- Joint Mathematics Meetings undergraduate poster sessions
- MAA-supported regional undergraduate math conferences
- MAA MathFest undergraduate paper sessions
- NAM MATHFest
- Nebraska Conference for Women in Mathematics
- SACNAS National Conference
- Math Institutes workshop at SACNAS
- Women in Mathematics in New England (WIMIN)
- Young Mathematicians Conference
For faculty
- Trends in Undergraduate Research in Mathematical Sciences (TURMS) Conference, October 26-28, 2012
- MAA minicourses at JMM or MathFest (example from JMM 2012: Minicourse #6)
- Undergraduate Faculty Program at the Park City Math Institute
Student Research Journals
- Involve
- Journal of Young Investigators
- Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Mathematics Journal
- SIAM Undergraduate Research Online
Funding Opportunities
- MAA
- Overview
- Article on UR funding sources
- National Research Experience for Undergraduates Program (NREUP)
- Regional Undergraduate Mathematics Conferences
- Travel grants for national meetings
- Tensor Grants for Women and Mathematics
- Tensor-SUMMA Grants: Strengthening Underrepresented Minority Student Achievement
- NSF REU site grants and supplements
- NSA (see section on “Conferences, Workshops, Research Experience for Undergraduates (REUs), Special Situation Proposals”)
- Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics (CURM)
Other Resources
- NSF Math Institutes
- National Alliance for Doctoral Studies in the Mathematical Sciences
- E-Mentoring Network on Facebook
- SAGE (mathematics software)
- Sage.org server (You can create an account here)
- Download Sage (You may need help to do this)
- Quick reference to Sage
- Sage online documentation and tutorial