Student Opportunities
This page presents opportunities and information about activities open to students during and after their studies at Smith, whether they want to go to Graduate School or follow other paths.
Check out the very complete AMS page for math undergrads as well as opportunities for students in statistics at the ASA page.
Undergraduate experience, at Smith or the Five Colleges
A Guide to Honors work in mathematics at Smith College
Research Experience of Math Majors at Smith Includes descriptions of available mathematics and statistics research projects as well as abstracts and summaries of Smith student research projects from yesteryear.
Statistics research projects Available term-time statistical research projects for undergraduates offered through UMass/Amherst and the other Five Colleges
STATCOM Pro-bono statistical consulting, run by graduate and undergraduate students at UMass/Amherst (Smith students welcomed to participate).
Undergraduate experience, elsewhere...
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)The National Science Foundation sponsors a number of mathematical research projects in which undergraduates participate. For a comprehensive list of REU programs,visit the AMS website.
George Washington University, Carleton College and St. Olaf College host summer programs for undergraduate women in mathematics.
Workshops in mathematics for undergraduates
Budapest Semesters in Mathematics. This program is popular with Smith math majors; an average of 3 students participate each year.
Math in Moscow A 15 week program of mathematical studies in English in Moscow.
Joint Program in Survey Methodology combines paid summer research assistantship at Federal Statistical Agencies in Washington, DC and ongoing educational seminars in survey research.
Summer Institute for Training Biostatistics (SIBS) offers a comprehensive summer training course on Biostatistics for undergraduates to help address a growing imbalance between the demand and supply for biostatisticians.
Competitions
Talk to faculty in the department to find out who is coaching students for the following competitions:
- Putnam Competition (sponsored by the MAA) . A day solving 12 hard math problems, requiring little more than calculus. Solve one and you're better than average... Early December.
- Mathematical Contest in Modeling (COMAP). 3 days where you and your team use mathematical modeling to present your solutions to real world problems. In February. Same organization sponsors an interdisciplinary modeling contest.
- Undergraduate Statistics Project Competition Between January and May, work on a stats project involving real data.
Graduate school, anyone?
Click here for all the information you could possibly want about graduate school, including:
- Questions to ask when choosing a graduate school
- Search tools for graduate schools
- How to put together an application
- NSF Graduate Fellowships
- Links to other resources
Careers in Mathematics and Statistics
Undergraduate math majors (MAA)
Career Stories of Smith math alumns (Alumns, please contribute your stories!)
saramarie belcastro's page on math careers
Other cool things
A data base of Smith Alumnae mathematicians
Bell ringing at Smith College