Attracting, Motivating, and Preparing Mathematics Students in the Southwest |
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 The National Science Foundation is funding an
MCTP Program (Mentoring through Critical Transition Points)
at the University of New Mexico for the next three years
(June 2008--May 2011).The goal of this program is to build a healthy, cooperative, and productive community of mathematics students in the southwest. Summer classes will provide undergraduate students the opportunity to learn important ideas from pure, applied, and computational mathematics, while research projects throughout the following academic year (for UNM students) will give a sense of the challenges and rewards inherent in all mathematical research. In addition, close contact with graduate students throughout the program will help prepare participants for an enlightened decision concerning graduate studies. Not only will participants gain insight into thereby fostering their future success in graduate studies. The ultimate goal of this project is to produce a thriving, self-sustaining, supportive atmosphere of creative enquiry in the southwest, where all students interested in mathematics, pure or applied, feel welcome and have the opportunity to expand their intellectual horizons and maximize their professional potential. There are three main components of the program: |
