Jobs
Departmental Employment
If you are interested in any of these positions, please fill out our application for employment.
Homework Sets
- Homework Graders: These students grade homework sets.
- Problem Session Holders: These students hold problem sessions in which they help students in the class understand mathematical concepts. They answer specific questions from the homework sets.
Math Labs
- Mathematica Lab Assistants: These students supervise lab hours in Park 354 that are targeted towards specific classes. They are available for questions relevant to the program used in the lab assignments for a specific class. They also grade lab assignments.
- SPSS Lab Assistants: These students supervise lab hours in Canaday. They are available for questions relevant to the program used in the lab assignments for a specific class. They also grade lab assignments.
- Open Lab Hours Supervisors: These students supervise lab hours in Park 354 that are not geared towards any one class. In general, they are not meant to answer specific questions about lab assignments.
Tutors/Trig Mini Course
- Private Tutors: These students are employed by the Dean's Office. They are paired up with a student for one-on-one help.
- High School Math Review -Course Instructors: These students hold a four-part, mini-course near the beginning of the semester which reviews the algebra, geometry, and tri concepts necessary for Calculus.
- Office Assistant: This student assists Betsy Cancelliere with departmental administration.
Summer Internships
A great way to start on a career path is to do a mathematically related (paid!) summer internship. Here are some examples of student experiences from recent summers:
NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (2010):
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Lise Cheblak '11
'Modelling the Swimming of the Sleeping Sickness Organism'
Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA - Chaya Coppersmith '11
Game Theory and School Choice
Claremont College, Claremont, CA -
Alexandra Lee '11
Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience
Rice University, Houston, TX - Emilie Naccarato '11 Numerical Simulations and Mathematical Modeling for Fluid-body Interactions University of Wymoning, Laramie, Wyoming
- Sarah Nelson '12 Algorithmic Combinatorics on Words: Primitive Parital Words University of North Carolina, Greensboro NC
- Rebecca Rebhuhn-Glanz '11 Matrices Whose Powers Have Constant Diagonal University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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Go to the REU Homepage
Summer Math Programs:
- George Washington University Summer Program for Women in Mathematics http://www.gwu.edu/~spwm/
- Williams College SMALL Undergraduate Research Project
http://www.williams.edu/go/math/small_CES.html - IAS Women and Mathematics Program
http://www.math.ias.edu/womensprogram/ - Carleton College Summer Mathematics Program for Women Undergraduates http://www.math.carleton.edu/smp/
Counseling at Summer Math Camps
- PROMYS:
http://www.promys.org - Ross Young Scholars Program:
http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/ross/ - List of more math camps:
http://www.ams.org/employment/mathcamps.html