Previous REUs
REU 2009
Students: Toan Duc Dinh, Michael Donzella, Thomas Dinitz, Matthew Hartman, Lizbee Collins-Wildman, Matthew Hoffman, Benjamin Mackey, Catherine Pizzano
Advisors: Mikhail Chebotar, Jenya Soprunova, Andrew Tonge, Laura Smithies
REU Publications
- Nicolas F. Beike, Rachel Carleton, David G. Costanzo, Colin Heath, Mark L. Lewis, Kaiwen Lu, and Jamie D. Pearce, Finite solvable tidy groups whose orders are divisible by two primes, São Paulo J. Math. Sci. 18 (2024), no. 2, 1651–1669.
- David G. Costanzo, Mark L. Lewis, Stefano Schmidt, Eyob Tsegaye and Gabe Udell, Characterizing finite groups whose enhanced power graphs have universal vertices, Czechoslovak Math. J.
Application
Application Deadline: Friday February 13, 2026
The application is available at https://etap.nsf.gov/award/8301/opportunity/11688.
To complete your application, you will be asked to provide the following:
Isabella “Bella” Rudy, a junior fashion design major with a minor in marketing, transformed nature into wearable art through an ambitious biomimicry project at the Design Innovation Hub.For her Junior Studio final project, Rudy designed an avant garde garment inspired by the King Bird of Paradise. Using custom textile design, dye sublimation printing, and advanced garment construction, Rudy’s work explored how fashion can capture movement, transformation, and storytelling without relying on real biological materials.The project began with a single requirement: choose a bird and reinterpret it ...
2026 Projects
For Summer 2026 we will recruit nine students to work on the three projects described below.
Graphs and groups (Mark Lewis)
There are several graphs naturally associated with groups. In this project, we will focus on the commuting graph and the closely related centralizer graph of a group G.
REU Home
The Department of Mathematical Sciences at Kent State University will run an NSF-funded REU program from June 1 through July 24, 2026. Students will work on projects arising naturally in our faculty's research. The emphasis of the program is on independent work under close supervision of the project advisor.
Q. May I host an event at the Kent State University Hotel and Conference Center?
A. Yes. The Kent State University Hotel is owned by the Kent State University Foundation and is the primary preferred area hotel for Kent State. As with any off-campus location, please follow the procedures outlined in Policy 7-02.5 Administrative policy regarding business meals and hospitality expenses payable or reimbursable from university funds for business meals and hospitality events.
Q. May I host an event at a location off campus using university funds?
A. Yes, you may host an event at an off-campus location using university funds. Please refer to Policy 7-02.5 Administrative policy regarding business meals and hospitality expenses payable or reimbursable from university funds for business meals and hospitality events.