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Mu Alpha Theta is offering Summer Math Program/Research Grants to
Full members. Grants may be requested for up to $2000 per student.
High school members may request grants through the summer after high
school graduation. Two-Year college students may request money through
the summer after they graduation from their member college. Coursework
taken using grant money may not be used for courses that are typically
available at the high school or the student's home college, such as
Calculus I, Calculus II or Statistics. Grant money may be used to pay
tuition or fees for a summer math program at, or sponsored by, an accredited
school or university. Money will also be granted to reimburse expenses for
doing research in mathematics or applied mathematics. This may include,
but is not limited to, housing, travel, publication fees, or supplies.
Money provided for tuition and fees will be sent directly to the institution
offering the program. Student's receiving reimbursed expenses will be asked
to provide receipts for reimbursed items and a social security number for
tax purposes. The member's service to and active participation in his/her
Mu Alpha Theta club may be considered in the grant selection process.
Click here to download the grant application.
Some summer programs that might qualify:
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Recipient’s Name: Kaitlyn A. Bailey
Recipient’s School: Carl Sandburg High School
School Location: Orland Park, IL
Program: MIT Women's Technology Program in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Recipient’s Name: Jocelyn M. Tang
Recipient’s School: Palos Verdes Peninsula High School
School Location: Rolling Hills Estates, CA
Program: Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists at Boston University
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Recipient’s Name: Kevin R. Sunga
Recipient’s School: Pittsburg High High School
School Location: Pittsburg, CA
Program: COSMOS - CA State Summer School for Math and Science at UC Santa Cruz
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Recipient’s Name: Victoria Shizhen Png
Recipient’s School: Bergen County Academies
School Location: Hackensack, NJ
Program: Awesome Math at University of Texas in Dallas
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Recipient’s Name: Daniel Zhou
Recipient’s School: Bergen County Academies
School Location: Hackensack, NJ
Program: Awesome Math at University of Texas in Dallas
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Recipient’s Name: Stephanie T. Yu
Recipient’s School: James E. Taylor High School
School Location: Katy, TX
Program: Stanford University Math Camp
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Recipient’s Name: David A. Weinberg
Recipient’s School: Spruce Creek High School
School Location: Port Orange, FL
Program: Ross Mathematics Program, Ohio State University
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Recipient’s Name:Feenalie Patel
Recipient’s School:White Station High School
School Location:Memphis, TN
Program:Boston University Hish School Honors Program
Harvard University http://www.bu.edu/summer/program_high_school_students/honors/research_internship
Feenalie's Program Comments:
Enriching. Empowering. Errant. Enthralling. Unforgettable. It is said that a picture is worth a
thousand words, but after this summer, I would say the same for my experience in the High School
Summer Honors Program (HSSHP) at Boston University. As a student in the Research Internship
program of HSSHP, I spent six weeks of my summer researching at the Harvard Center for
Neurologic Diseases in Boston with mentors who guided and intellectually stimulated me to
think like a researcher as I pursued my own research experiment, something I only dreamed of
doing in college. My research involved studying B-cell infiltrate in a Type 1 Diabetic patient.
While I was there, not only did I gain more knowledge about immunology, but I also learned the
methods used in research labs. Although the lab focused on immunology, mathematics played such
a crucial role in every aspect of the research: you have to calculate proportions for the
solutions and mixtures, create scatter plots and graphs to represent the data, understand
statistical mathematics, calculate regressions lines, and be precise in all measurements.
As I contemplate the possibility of becoming a researcher after college, it was interesting
to understand and apply mathematics to research. Thank you very much for this unforgettable
opportunity, which I would never have been able to experience without the Mu Alpha Theta grant.
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Recipient’s Name:Gina Pai
Recipient’s School:Hickman High School
School Location:Columbia, MO
Program:Texas Mathworks Honors Summer Math Camp
Texas State University: http://mathworks.txstate.edu/student/HSMC/description.htm
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Recipient’s Name:Natalie Cooper
Recipient’s School:Mandeville High School
School Location:Mandeville, LA
Program:Stanford Unversity Summer Math Institutes
Stanford University: http://math.stanford.edu/sumac
Natalie's Program Comments:
I participated in Stanfordʼs Education Program for Gifted Youth this summer, and it was the best 3 weeks of my life!
I studied Topology and Knot Theory, which was very interesting. I learned about everything
from different kinds of knots to how to assign polynomials to the knots. It was a very
informative class, and I really enjoyed the challenging material. I feel that I learned an
incredible amount of material for such a short period of time. For our final project, we
learned several proofs related to coloring, which was one of the highlights of the program.
We had class for two-and-a-half hours each day and study hall for three hours. Other than that,
we did a lot of activities on Stanfordʼs beautiful campus, such as hiking, sports, tie-dying, and fountain hopping
(a Stanford tradition). It was such a great experience to meet other students from across the U.S.
and across the world. I thoroughly enjoyed my time at Stanford this summer.
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Recipient’s Name:Caleb Myers
Recipient’s School:Washington High School
School Location:Washington, MO
Program:Jacking Introduction to Engineering
Missouri University of Science and Technology: http://summer.mst.edu
Caleb's Program Comments:
I had a great time at the Jackling Introduction to Engineering. I will hopefully use the knowledge
that I learned because of this camp later in my life, when I am choosing which engineering major I
want to pursue in college. This camp really got me interested in IDE, Inter-Disciplinary Engineering.
It sounds like a really cool field to go into and I had never heard about it before. I also found
out that I do not really want to do Aerospace Engineering; it seemed too boring. During camp we were
introduced to all the different engineering majors offered at Missouri University of Science and
Technology. The fact that I was able to attend this camp for free made me feel
special. I could never have gone to this camp on my own because of the cost.
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Recipient’s Name:Andre Kuney
Recipient’s School:Clarkstown High School South
School Location:West Nyack, NY
Program:Canada/USA Mathcamp
Reed College in Portland, ORhttp://www.mathcamp.org
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Recipient’s Name:Yuehan Huang
Recipient’s School:Vestavia Hills High School
School Location:Vestavia Hills, AL
Program:Programs in Mathematics for Young Scientists
Boston University: promys.bu.edu
PROMYS is a fabulous program. A Number theory class is the core class that students must attend everyday.
In the class, Professor Glenn Stevens taught us to think differently from what we have been taught from high school.
The class opened our views in the field of mathematics. In addition to the core classe, there were non-mandatory classes
(such as Modulo Forms, Geometry and Symmetry, Exploration Labs, Research Labs, Abstract Algebra) provided to help us to
expand our knowledge. I chose Geometry and Symmetry. In that class, Professor Rosenberg introduced various forms and
numerous ideas of Geometry to us. The ideas I learned through the program, may apply to areas other than mathematics.
I enjoyed the program throughout the whole six weeks.
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Recipient’s Name:Emil Guliyev
Recipient’s School:Clarkstown High School South
School Location:West Nyack, NY
Program:The Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics
Hampshire College: www.hcssim.org
This summer I participated in Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics. We had classes
every morning from 8:34 to 12:34, with a small break in between. The first three weeks, we learned
about various subjects such as group theory, graph theory, number theory, combinatorics, set theory,
and Möbius transformations. In addition to the morning classes, we had problem sets every day from
7:34 to 10:34 PM about what we did in class. The last three weeks, we had three choices for our classes,
which were called maxis, and were from 8:34 to 10:34 AM, and ten classes, which were called minis,
that lasted from 11:17 to 12:34 PM We were allowed to take only one maxi and two minis, and each maxi/mini
had a special topic. The maxi I took was about origami and its applications, which was very fun. The minis
I took were Lebesgue integration, which is a far superior way of integrating functions than Riemann integration,
and Shuffle, which was about shuffling cards which involved group theory, probability and some graph theory.
In addition to all these, we had an hour-long lecture, called Prime Time Theorem, every day at 5 PM on some topic
which were given by either a guest or a staff member. We also watched math movies on Wednesdays, which were
right before problem set. On weekends we did various things, such as hiking and going to Boston. Overall,
it was a great experience and anyone with any interest in math would enjoy it as much as I did.
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Recipient’s Name:Jacob Trentmann
Recipient’s School:Washington High School
School Location:Washington, MO
Program:Jackling Introduction to Engineering
University of Missouri - Rolla: dce.umr.edu
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Recipient’s Name:Timothy Hudson Harper
Recipient’s School:Alabama School of Fine Arts
School Location:Birmingham, AL
Program:Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists
Boston University: www.promys.org
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Recipient’s Name:Jeremy E. Blum
Recipient’s School:Byram Hills High School
School Location:Armonk, NY
Research Project:To determine if force sensors mounted to the forearm
can effectively and accurately control the movements of an intelligent prosthetic hand on an amputee.
Mentoring Professor:Dr. Peter Kyberd, Institute of Biomedical Engineering
University of New Brunswick, Canada: www.unb.ca/biomed
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