Student Research & Internships

You may choose to do an undergraduate research project as part of your mathematics major, giving you the opportunity to further develop your ability to learn mathematics independently, to make connections between different branches of mathematics, and to work closely with mathematics faculty members.

Research is increasingly valued as our students apply to NSF-funded research programs, graduate programs in mathematics and related fields, and positions in business and industry upon graduation.

Summer REU Participants »

The Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program supports active research participation by students in any of the areas of research funded by the National Science Foundation.

Conference Presentations »

Students travel across the country to present their research findings.

MTH 490 Undergraduate Research in Mathematics

Students can earn 3 credits for MTH 490 Undergraduate Research in Mathematics, offered every spring semester, and may use this as one of their mathematics elective courses.

Current and past research projects:

Spring 2021
Justin Boyer - "What Is the Magical Equation?"
 
Tyler Luong - "Mix and Match Primes"


Spring 2019

"Powers of Cyclic Graphs"
Sarah Stolberg

"Tree Reconstruction from Edge-Deleted Subgraphs"
Matthias Rollins and Allison Sortore

"What Makes a Square Magical?"
Justin Boyer

"Number Necklaces"
Shannon Dablock and Sarah Danzinger

"The Reconstruction Problem"
Kelsey Barrett and Griffin Henwood

"The Angel and the Devil"
Jason Buechel

Spring 2018

“Putnam Tiles!”
Bailey Carter

“Are all trees graceful?” 
Christopher Goodman

“Sylver Decisions ”
Claire Hardy

“Patterns in the Fibonacci Numbers”
Laura Herman
Allegra Hunter
Jessica Locey

“Number Necklaces”
Austin Jensen

“Venn Diagrams”
Angela Scherer

Spring 2017

Megan Searing and Stephanie Mongelli - "Student Actions when Comparing Fractions"

Brittany Patton - "The Connection Between Reading and Mathematics"

Jess Locey - "Homework: Do you really need it?"

Spring 2016

"Injustice in the School System"
Jennie Betts
Danielle Fisher
Jen Iler
Stephanie Mumpton

"Predictive Models for the NFL Playoffs”
Jon Gerken
Dylan Pettit
Kelsey Quigley

Spring 2015

Grunbaum's Conjecture: 4-regular, 4-chromatic Graphs of Large Girth
Jennie Betts
Jennnie Iler
Stephanie Mumpton

Rational Distance Sets on a Parabola
Jonathan Gerkin
Dylan Pettit

The Earth-Moon Problem
Courtney Malia
Kelsey Quigley
Robert Ramos

Graceful Labelings
Jennie McFarland
Melissa Reeves
Adrienne Torrey

Crossing Number of Complete Graphs
Alison Stedman
Jack Whalen

Spring 2014

Up before Over: Informal Language before Formal Mathematical Vocabulary
Kyli Knickerbocker

How can we accelerate our advanced common core students?
Courtney Larkin

Do You Suffer from Calculus Phobia? 
Mary Losito

Are Manipulatives Just Toys?
Grace Crowell

Fall 2012

An exciting investigation into a number of mathematical games and the underlying theory, ranging from divisibility to the Euler Characteristic.

The Secret of NIM
Larry Czubinski and Ashlee Evertt

Evil Mathematicians
Alan Connor, Molly Kingsley, and Heidi Prentice

Queen Chicken
Ashley Binnert, Grace Crowell, and Emiline Pelletier

Euler's Characteristic and Planar Graphs
Justin Sawran and Dyan VerSchage

Student Internships

2024

Summer 2024


Sara Kelly
(MTH and EDS minors)
PredictView Technologies
Los Angeles, CA

Sara worked as an Intern/Contractor during Summer 2024.  Sara says that she learned a lot about data dictionaries and human centered computing. She worked with other data scientists and psychologists to clean and reorganize data based on the customer's needs after they tested the program.

Justin Karnisky (MTH, MUS)
Seabreeze Amusement Park
Rochester, NY

Justin managed Seabreeze's expenses using SAP Business One, and I assisted with HR tasks such as I-9 forms, work permits, and termination reports. He also assisted in the counting room.


Aiden Pavek
(EDS)
Reflections Restaurant
Leola, PA

Through management shadowing, Aiden was able to see the business side of a restaurant. He saw the systems and how they ran through numbers for operations. Aiden told us, "The internship gave me an insight on how I can maybe improve their business."


Emmanuel Enock
(EDS)
GlaxoSmithKline
Philadelphia, PA

As a Data Science Intern, Manny Developed a GenAI POC that assists HCPs on reviewing large documents by summarizing the document for faster comprehensions allow them to save time and resources. He collaborated and supported the GenAI team on cleaning and preprocessing large and unstructured clinical trial data and datasets manually and through code to create actionable insights. He also prepared datasets to be used in an inhouse AI Assistant for HCPs within a specific field of work.


Brendan Regan
(MTH and EDS)
Sesto Synergy
Rochester, NY

CRM Integration Project Intern - Worked on developing a comprehensive CRM solution using multiple platforms, including Etsy, Excel, and Gmail, into a single user-friendly interface. Brendan utilized tools such as Trello, Power Automate Desktop and Cloud, and ChatGPT to automate workflows, streamline customer interactions, and improve operational efficiency. The main goal of this project was to help eliminate human error and make it one smooth automated flow between the customer order and processing of their ring.

2023

Summer 2023


Alyssa Barnum
(Legal Studies and Mathematics '25)
Child and Family Services - Buffalo NY

Alyssa's internship was at Child and Family Services in Buffalo, NY. She worked in the Public Relations Department where she learned about being in a business setting and what it is like to be a part of a professional, collaborative team. Alyssa worked on projects that included updating their website, making social media posts to promote mental health, and fundraising events for the agency. She also worked on helping with the rebranding of the agency for their 150th anniversary by conducting interviews and writing stories about the work of the agency to be shared within the agency and the larger community. She learned how to connect with sponsors and how to use the money in a way that would make the agency the most successful.



Jaylen Savage (EDS) 
Techstrordinary - Charlotte, NC

Jaylen was a Practice Coordinator Intern at Techstrordinary. One of the projects that he worked on was building a project plan template that the employees use as a checklist when they are going through their projects. His supervisor gave him freedom on projects had confidence in his ability to shape his success and complete projects in a timely manner.
 

Julie Filipski
(Mathematics and Ethical Data Science)
M&T Bank

Julie was a Professional Intern at M&T Bank in Deposit & Payment Services (D&PS) Center of Excellence (COE). She worked with a team of analysts to create dashboards for various departments across D&PS. They used Microsoft's PowerBI to create graphs and other data visualizations that would allow senior management to visually analyze the health of their different departments. Julie told us, "MTH 308 (Data Vis) helped to shape my success visualizing and creating these dashboards during my internship."



Adam DelGrand (Mathematics and Ethical Data Science)
Excellus BlueCross BlueShield - Rochester, NY

Adam was a Health Care Informatics Analyst Intern at Excellus BlueCross BlueShield during summer 2023. He worked on the Competitive Intelligence team where his project was to help pull data from insurance claims for certain operations and organize a spreadsheet that he would send to one of the analysts. Adam told us, "A course that I had that truly helped me with this my experience was Practical AI and Machine Learning because it showed me how to organize data and make it clean for the purpose of analyzing it."




Emmanuel Enock
(Ethical Data Science)
GlaxoSmithKline - Philadelphia, PA

Manny was a Data Engineer Intern at GlaxoSmithKline working in the Digital Fuel Department. One of the projects that he worked on was extracting text from pdf files in order to ensure they are in proper semantics and offload them into tabular data for content tagging in terms of the bigger picture . Manny told us, "Taking all the TAS classes and ethical classes helped to shape my success offsetting a project that will be very beneficial to healthcare providers looking to locate files and patient information more efficiently, so it's important to always consider what your stakeholders need in order to achieve the issue of unorganized data, and when we mix Ethics and data science, you get that perfect blend!"



Sara Kelly
 (MTH, EDS, DANCE)

Sara worked as an online intern for PredictView Technologies doing statistical analysis on research with the data science team for one of their projects. She tells us that she really enjoyed her experience and learned a lot about communication within a team, and how to properly communicate information to people on other teams, especially through a computer screen. After only two semesters of taking both TAS and mathematics courses, she says they helped her to have a better understanding of some of the tools, such as basic Python code and analyzing five number summaries that were needed in an internship.

2020

Summer 2020
Ningyuan Zhang (MTH - minor)
Optima Shipbrokers
Shanghai, China

Spring 2020
Lydia Schifley (MTH)
Nazareth College, Alumni Relations

Summer 2020
Ashley Blesy (MTH, Inclusive Ed)
St. Aloysius Regional School
Teacher’s Aide, first grade
Springville, NY

2019

Nazareth College - Institutional Research
Rochester, NY

Cali Slawiak (MTH)

2018

Scleroderma Foundation
Tri-State Chapter
Rochester, NY

Kelsey Barret (MKTG and MTH)

 

Children of Promise NYC
Brooklyn, NY

Gabrielle Bradley (MTH.INCH)

Children of Promise, NYC

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Students and faculty have dedicated spaces to conduct independent (and collaborative) mathematics research in Peckham Hall. Learn more »