The Seminar for Undergraduate Mathematical Research has a good record of nurturing the intellectual aspirations of Notre Dame mathematics students. The following data are an attempt to substantiate that claim.

Thirty of the thirty-one graduates who participated in SUMR for at least one year, have then pursued graduate work, and obtained at least a Master's degree. The majority (24 of the thirty) have pursued Ph.D.'s in Pure or Applied Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, or Physics. (Of the six others, 3 became MD's, one got an MBA, one got an M.A. in Electrical Engineering, and one pursued an M.A. in Mathematics).

No student who actively pursued a Ph.D. in Mathematics has yet dropped out of such a graduate program. (Anecdotal data suggest none currently pursuing a Ph.D. will drop out).

Every SUMR graduate from the years before 1997, who sought a Ph.D. in Mathematics, has already obtained it.

All 24 SUMR graduates who pursued graduate education in one of the mathematical sciences have won admittance, with funding, to one of the top twenty graduate programs in the U.S. (according to the NRC rankings). All but three of these were admitted into one of the top ten programs.

Six SUMR students have won NSF Graduate Fellowships.

Seven SUMR students won Honorable Mention in the NSF Graduate Fellowship Competition.

One won a George C. Marshall Scholarship.

Two won an NDSEG fellowship.

One won a Lucent Technology Fellowship.

Six SUMR students have won Goldwater Scholarships

Three SUMR grads, after receiving Ph.D.'s in Mathematics, won NSF postdoctoral fellowships.

Three have been finalists in the Rhodes competition (there have been no Rhodes winners yet).

Four of the women have finished as either First Runner-up, or with Honorable Mention, in the Alice Shaefer Fellowship Competition (there is only one winner each year, nationwide).

One SUMR student won a Fulbright fellowship.

Updated on: Thursday, May 24, 2007 9:28 AM
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