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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.
  • Peer-Led Instructors: These students hold sessions in which they help students understand mathematical concepts from the class. PLI sessions, however, are different from problem sessions, because the peer-led instructor cannot help with specific questions from the homework.
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(s) used in the lab assignments for a specific class. They also grade lab assignments.

  • SPSS Lab Assistants: These students supervise lab hours in Guild. They are available for questions relevant to the program(s) 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.

  • Senior Tutor: This student organizes the private tutors. When a student goes to the Dean's Office requesting a tutor, they are put in contact with the Senior Tutor who matches them with an appropriate private tutor.

  • Trig Mini-Course Instructors: These students hold a four-part, mini-course near the beginning of the semester which reviews the Unit Circle, Trig Identities, and Graphs of Trig Functions.

  • 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 (2007):

  • Dena Feldman '08
    'Formulating SIR-mathematical model of West Nile Virus'
    University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

  • Emily Glick '08
    'The Dispersal and Persistence of Invasive Marine Species'
    University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

  • Jessica WebsterLove '08
    'Geometric Invariants in Computer Image Recognition'
    North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

  • Go to the REU Homepage

Summer Math Programs (2007):

 

Counseling at Summer Math Camps