Opportunities for students
SUMMER OPPORTUNITIES
Coursework Plus
- Park City Mathematics Institute: see pcmi.ias.edu/summer-program/ three-week summer program: applications due January 31, 2012
- The Carleton College Summer Mathematics Program for Women: www.math.carleton.edu/smp/ must be U.S. citizen; rising sophomores and juniors; applications due February 17, 2012
- The George Washington University Summer Program for Women in Mathematics: see www.gwu.edu/~spwm/ must be U.S. citizen or permanent resident; rising seniors; applications due March 1, 2012
Internships
- Actuarial
- Aetna: see www.aetna.com/about-aetna-insurance/aetna-careers/student-programs/student_undergraduate_intern.html rising juniors and seniors
- Towers Perrin: actuarial internships; information available through Bucknell's CDC
- U.S. Government: see www.usajobs.gov
- Listing of New York actuarial firms offering summer internships at www79.homepage.villanova.edu/charles.ashley/actuary.htm
- Statistics and Biostatistics
- Summer Institute for Training in Biostatistics: see www.nhlbi.nih.gov/funding/training/redbook/sibsweb.htm six to seven week training programs at a choice of eight host universities
- Mayo Clinic: see www.mayoclinic.org/jobs/internships.html options include biostatistics
- U.S. Census Bureau: see www.census.gov, click on Jobs@Census, and go to Student and Research Opportunities
- U.S. Government: see www.usajobs.gov
- Teaching
- Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth: instructor and teaching/residential assistant positions; see cty.jhu.edu/summer/employment/index.html
- Breakthrough Collaborative: Breakthrough Summer Teaching Internship: see www.breakthroughcollaborative.org
- Aim High: Teaching Intern; see www.aimhigh.org/faculty/apply_teach_aim_high.html
- Other
- The Aerospace Corporation: see www.aero.org/careers/intern.html
- Intel Corporation: see www.intel.com/jobs and click on Intern/Grad opportunities
- Lockheed Martin: see www.lockheedmartinjobs.com/college_internships.asp
- Wolfram: see www.wolfram.com/company/opportunities/intern.html
- U.S. Government: see www.usajobs.gov
Research Opportunities
- Bucknell Program for Undergraduate Research: see www.bucknell.edu/x1713.xml proposals due in early February
- Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs): see www.ams.org/programs/students/undergrad/emp-reu deadlines February-March
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: see www.lbl.gov/CS/Careers/SummerStudents.html rising seniors
- MIT Lincoln Laboratory: see www.ll.mit.edu/college/summerprogram.html rising seniors; must a U.S. citizen
- NASA Undergraduate Student Research Project: see usrp.usra.edu/ rising sophomores and above
- National Security Agency: Director's Summer Program, Mathematics Summer Employment Program; must be U.S. citizen; applications accepted September 7-October 15 of each year; see www.nsa.gov/careers/opportunities_4_u/students/undergraduates/smart.shtml
- Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST): see www.nist.gov/surfgaithersburg/ deadline February 15, 2012
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory's Research Participant Program: must be U.S. citizen or permanent resident; rising juniors and above; see www.nrel.gov/rpp/student_internships.html
- U.S. Department of Energy Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI); applications due January 10, 2012; see science.energy.gov/wdts/suli
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory: see www.orau.gov/hereatornl/
- Sandia National Laboratory: see www.sandia.gov/careers/students_postdocs/
- Dordt College in Sioux City, Iowa summer research program in statistical genetics and biostatistics; undergraduate students with prior coursework in statistics are invited to apply; application deadline; January 31, 2012; see www.dordt.edu/statgen
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
Bucknell's math graduates go on to work as consultants, actuaries, teachers and software developers. Employers include investment banks, engineering firms, insurance companies and the military.
Graduate school is also an option. Many of our students go on to study mathematics and statistics law, medicine, music, economics, business, French and architecture, among other fields.
Working in Math
- Careers in Applied Mathematics (provided by the SIAM, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics)
- Career information from the Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
- Career planning resources from the Sloan Foundation
- Career information from the American Statistical Association
- Career information from the National Security Agency
Graduate School
- Information from the AMS on careers and graduate school
- Graduate Records Exam
- National Science Foundation Fellowships
- List of mathematics departments from around the world
- General information about graduate school
