Summer REU Program at NAU

February 22, 2002

by Jenifer Fowler

Professor Blows visited with us today about NAU's summer REU program.

This is a nationwide program that runs during June and July. Undergraduate

students (typically juniors and seniors) from colleges and universities across the

country apply to this program. Only six will be accepted. These six students

will pair up, and be assigned to one of three members of NAU's mathematics

faculty. During the first couple of weeks of the program, the faculty members

try to bring the students up to speed on their research before giving them

their own projects to work on.

It is during this "training stage" that most of us in PFMF thought we could

offer the most help. Dr. Armbruster suggested that we might be able to help

with instruction in our various areas of mathematics, or giving a workshop in

Latec or PowerPoint. It was also suggested that we simply go to talk to the

students, let them know what life is like in graduate school, and possibly give

a presentation of our own research.