Mathematics & Statistics Career Information:

• MAA Math Classifieds:  Math-related job listings

• National Security Agency (Mathematicians) - apply early in your senior year.

• ASA Career Center:  What is Statistics, what do statisticians do, what industries employ statisticians, how to become a statistician and other resources.

• Sloan Career Cornerstone Center -- information about careers in actuarial science, mathematics, and statistics.

• Career and Employment Resources for Mathematics Students --a site from the MAA that has links for descriptions of careers in mathematics, advice for looking for a job, advice for looking for a graduate school, and other information.

• Mathematical Scientists at Work is a collection of career essays in which women and men with mathematics backgrounds describe the ways in which their training in mathematics impacts upon their work.

• The AMS and the SIAM have constructed a great web resource on careers in mathematics. For example, visit the Mathematics Career Bulletin Board to learn about the careers of mathematicians in non-academic positions, or read about some actual applications used by mathematicians in their jobs.

• Thinking of a Career in Applied Mathematics? from SIAM is a good source of information and advice on how mathematicians work in industry.

• The Early Career Profiles Network is a web resource provided by the AMS on which mathematics departments systematically provide job profiles of their recent bachelors-degree alumni, highlighting where they work and how they got their job, how they use math on the job, their academic background, and their advice for students.

Summer Undergraduate Research

• National Security Agency (pdf) - Deadline of October 15 each year

• Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Undergraduate Program

• University of West Georgia: Combinatorics, Number Theory, & Graph Theory - Application deadline March 9, 2009

• Carleton College - Summer Mathematics Program for Women.  Applications due February 19, 2009.

• Summer Institute for Training in Biostatistics Application deadline: March 6, 2009

• Interdisciplinary Computational Thinking and Plant Biology Research Program.  Application deadline: February 1, 2009.

• Mayo Clinic Division of Biostatistics.  Application deadline: February 2, 2009.

• Summer Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (Miami University).  Application deadline:  March 1, 2009.

• Stowers Institute Scholars Program - A nine-week experience in a stimulating scientific environment with state-of-the-art laboratories equipped with the most advanced technology.

• Wabash College - Wabash Summer Institute in Mathematics.  Application deadline:  March 1, 2009.

• Rice University Summer Institute of Statistics.  Application deadline: March 15, 2009.

• University of Pittsburgh - Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Summer Institute (BBSI) - Course work topics include Math and Biochemistry Review, Data and Molecular Visualization, Protein Folding, Principles of Computational Biology, Fundamentals of Bioinformatics, Molecular-to-Cellular Simulations.

• Kennedy Space Center Internship Program for Undergraduate students

• Boeing Internships

• FBI Honors Internship Program

• Undergraduate Science & Engineering Internships (Tech-Interns)

Fellowships

• Chicago Teaching Fellowships - Chicago Public Schools

Chicago Teaching Fellows is an aggressive campaign to recruit outstanding recent college graduates and mid-career professionals to join our efforts to provide Chicago’s children with the education they deserve. To be eligible to apply, a bachelor’s degree is required but an education degree or certification is not. Please visit our website at www.chicagoteachingfellows.org.

• Indianapolis Teaching Fellowships - an initiative with Indianapolis Public Schools

Summer Graduate Research

• National Security Agency (pdf) - Deadline of October 15 each year