Opportunities for Students

On-Campus Job Opportunities for Undergraduates

Undergraduate Scholarships

Math Department General Scholarship

The Math Department Scholarship Fund was established in 2005 to provide general scholarship support for students within the Department. 

The Math Department General Scholarship is OPEN for Spring 2025.

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Richard B. Geller

This scholarship was established by Dr. Harold Geller (MAIS ’92 D.A. ’05) in memory of his brother Richard B. Geller and is awarded to a full-time student majoring in Mathematics. The student will qualify on the basis of academic merit and financial need. The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) must be completed and submitted to the Office of Student Financial Aid by the scholarship deadline date in order to determine eligibility for this scholarship. 

This scholarship is currently open for awarding in Spring 2025.

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Feinstein Award in Mathematics

The Feinstein Award in Math was established in 1992 by late Mason Professor Hyman I. Feinstein. The fund provides awards to undergraduate and graduate students pursuing a degree in Mathematics. 

This award is awarded each spring. Please email MathUG@gmu.edu to apply.

Other College of Science Scholarship Opportunities

Graduate Student Opportunities

As a part of Industrial Immersion Program (IIP), we have funding available for a few Summer 2022 research projects that are crossing disciplinary boundaries and/or strengthening connections with industry or national labs. The funding is made available by the IIP program and all Math graduate students (MS and PhD, all areas of research) are eligible. Project duration may vary from one month to the whole summer and compensated according to the length and level of the appointment.

For more information, click here:  IIP Summer project funding opportunity

The PhD Launchpad program is a 3-week opportunity to solidify your mathematical background and meet the GMU math department before starting our PhD program. Two mini-courses will help you practice the most important material for your first year in our program, while giving you a chance to get to know your cohort, returning PhD students, and faculty before the semester starts. You can expect lots of collaborative problem-solving, individual attention, and social outings in the DC area.

Dates: 

Dates for 2025 will be posted soon

Please contact Rebecca R.G. at rrebhuhn@gmu.edu with questions about the program and Matt Holzer at mholzer@gmu.edu with questions about graduate admissions.

Each incoming PhD student is assigned a faculty mentor and a returning PhD student mentor. The student will meet with their mentors twice a semester during their first year. The goal of having a faculty mentor is to give the new student a friendly face who can help in sorting out problems, give advice, and connect the student to resources. The goal of having a student mentor is to help the new student build social connections in the program and learn about the graduate student experience.

If you have any questions, please send an email to gradmath@gmu.edu.

First year PhD students take classes that lead to the preliminary examinations in algebra, linear analysis, numerical analysis, topology, and ordinary differential equations. To help students prepare for these exams, each of these classes has a Graduate Learning Assistant (GLA). The GLA comes to class and supports active learning activities, holds extra office hours, and runs weekly prelim study sessions. The goal of the program is to provide additional assistance in and out of the classroom, and to help students form study groups and practice for the preliminary exams.

If you have any questions, please send an email to gradmath@gmu.edu.