The VIGRE program supports PRUV,
a two-year research intensive program for undergraduates.
PRUV Fellows are paired with a mentor early in their junior year.
They participate in an intensive six-week research project during the following summer and continue their research in an independent study course with their mentor during their senior year.
Each Fellow is expected to write a senior thesis.
The program is designed to increase the number of well-prepared undergraduates entering graduate programs in mathematically related fields and to increase their likelihood of success both in and after their graduate work.
Out of the 25 students who have completed the PRUV program since 2001, 4 were
awarded NSF graduate fellowships.
There were also a Rhodes scholar, a NDS&E fellowship recipient, and a
Churchill fellowship recipient.
Notably, Melanie Wood, a PRUV fellow, received the Alica Schaffer Prize
and the Morgan Prize.
She is now a graduate student at Princeton University.
Most of our PRUV graduates have gone on to attend graduate school in
various disciplines:
- 7 in Mathematics
(Princeton University,
University of California at Berkeley,
University of California at Los Angeles,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (2),
North Carolina State University,
Cornell University,
and Columbia University);
- 3 in Computer Science
(Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon, and Cornell University)
- 2 in Economics
(Oxford University and Columbia University)
- 1 in Molecular Biology (Pennsylvania State University)
- 1 in MD-PhD (University of Michigan)
- 1 in History (University of California at Los Angeles)
Others went to medical school, bio-technology, finance industry, etc.
Demographic data: 8 of the 25 PRUV graduatese are female.
List of publications by PRUV fellows.
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VIGRE Undergraduate Research