Student Research

Our students have many opportunities to engage in undergraduate scholarship and research, including giving talks and poster presentations at conferences and publishing papers.

All Longwood students are required to complete an internship in their program of study. Students may meet their internship requirement under the guidance of a faculty member, as an intern in industry, or in the case of students who are getting certified to teach, via their student teaching. Some of our students also opt for a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program to fulfill their internship requirement.

In addition to the internship, our faculty are willing to work with students to create "honors enhancements" to their courses as well as engage in directed studies or joint research with students.

When writing articles or papers, students are encouraged to follow the guidelines in the department style sheet (pdf).  Within several departmental courses, we evaluate students based on our department writing rubric (pdf) and/or our department speaking rubric (pdf).

There are many opportunities for students to engage in scholarly activity and research within the department.

We consider student presentations an important component of the learning experience at Longwood. Students participating in an industry internship, directed study or REU must give a presentation open to the faculty and students. Some of these endeavors also result in students giving presentations or posters at the Longwood University Cook-Cole College of Arts and Sciences (LU CCCAS) Showcase and/or at regional or national conferences. Below is a list of papers and recent external presentations or posters given by our students.

Recent Student Scholarship and Research

• Summer 2017: Breana Figueroa, Lie Algebras, PRISM program.  Advisor: Dr. Tom Wears.
• Summer 2017: Nicole Marzolf, Lie Algebras, PRISM program.  Advisor: Dr. Tom Wears.
• Summer 2017: Matthew Dyer, Matrix Factorization, PRISM program.  Advisor: Dr. Julian Dymacek.
• Spring 2017: Walter Coleman, ANOVA with Repeated Measures, Honors Enhancement. Advisor: Dr. David Shoenthal.
• Spring 2017: Andrew Brogan, Visualization Tool for Convex Hull and Triangulation. Advisor: Dr. Scott McElfresh.
• Spring 2017: Dani Harris, Social Network Analysis.       Advisor: Crystal Peoples.       Presentation at Spring 2017 Maryland-DC-Virginia Sectional Meeting of the Mathematical Association of America.
• Spring 2017: Michael Lee, Algebraic Coding Theory.       Advisor: Dr. David Shoenthal.
• Spring 2017: Heather Switzer, Algorithms for Finding the Period of the Fibonacci Series. Advisor: Dr. Julian Dymacek.
• Spring 2017: David Lackey, Distributed Algorithm for Finding the Period of N-Step Fibonacci Series. Advisor: Dr. Julian Dymacek.
• Spring 2017: Michael Lee, Distributed Algorithms & Claw Free Steinhaus Graphs. Advisor: Dr. Julian Dymacek.
• Spring 2017: Michael Murphy, Stats and Coaching Changes. Advisor: Dr. Bill Abrams.
• Fall 2016: Samantha Green, The Lorenz System. Advisor: Dr. Tom Wears.
• Fall 2016: Sabrina Walker, Lorentzian Geometries on Finite Dimensional Lie Algebras, Senior Honors Research in Mathematics. Advisor: Dr. Tom Wears.
• Fall 2016: Thomas Morgan, Building a Database Administration System. Advisor: Dr. Don Blaheta.
• Fall 2016: Dani Harris, Mathematics & Sociology.       Advisor: Dr. David Shoenthal.
• Fall 2016: Kim Bacon, Investigations in Number Theory. Advisor Dr. Phillip Poplin.
• Fall 2016: Sabrina Walker, Dynamical Systems. Advisor: Dr. David Shoenthal.