Research Opportunities in Mathematics

2013 New Honors Distinction

Honors Research Scholars
This program is designed to recognize students who excel in undergraduate research. After successfully completing their research, Honors Research Scholars will receive a notation on their transcript and recognition at graduation. Interested students should contact Dr. Neuerburg.

More information and application materials are available online at the Honors College website.

Competitions

Students interested in competing at an upcoming sectional meeting of the Mathematics Association of America should contact Dr. Dennis Merino.

Student Research Projects

Some of the research projects students have engaged in over the years include:  

Fall 2009
John Howell 
Covered Groups and Finite Fields 
Faculty Sponsors: Dr. Alan Cannon and Dr. Kent Neuerburg

Spring 2008
Veronica Wills 
A Study of the Solutions to the Family of Differential Equations f'(x) = 1/[f(f( f(x)))] 
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Randall Wills 
First Place, Undergraduate Papers, 85th Annual Meeting of the LA/MS Section of the MMA, Spring 2009 

Spring 2007
Matt Arbo 
Centers and Generalized Centers of Nearrings of Polynomials 
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Alan Cannon 
Honors Senior Thesis

Matt Arbo 
Solutions to the Fermat-like Equations fn + gn = hn in the Space of Linear Functions 
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Randall Wills 
Second Place, Undergraduate Papers, 84th Annual Meeting of the LA/MS Section of the MAA, Spring 2007

Spring 2006
Robbie Beyl 
Solving Recurrence Relations Using Differential Equations 
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Dennis Merino