Student Opportunities
Expand your skillset and your résumé by pursuing your interests outside of the classroom. Whether you’re conducting research, completing an internship, or leading an on-campus organization, there are plenty of opportunities to get involved.
Find the Perfect Opportunity
Internships
- Tutor or mentor other students at the Quantitative Skills Center or as a course mentor for stretch differential calculus.
- Work at the Geospatial Innovation Program (GIP). The Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) technology they use to answer location-related research questions relies heavily on math for database structure, topology and, data analysis.
- Arrange your own internship experience through your own connections, or by tapping into the Center for Career Development’s extensive network.
Research
- Assist faculty with their research projects.
- Complete a Senior Capstone Experience (SCE), pursuing independent research in a topic that interests you. Your SCE could be explanatory, learning an advanced concept and explaining it to a peer group, or you could prove theorems or other math models.
- Complete mathematical problem-solving contests. Students have competed in the Virginia Tech Regional Mathematics Contest and the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition with help from a faculty coach.
- Participate in a weekly math seminar with faculty and other math majors. During any given week, the seminar may include a guest speaker, collaboration on a problem solving activity, or focus on career development.
- Travel to regional conferences with faculty to learn about what other researchers and students are currently working on.
- Create your own research project. Support, financial or otherwise, is available across campus, including through the John S. Toll Research Program and the Libby and Douglass Cater Society for Junior Fellows.
To get started thinking about what research you might be able to do at Washington College, review our faculty’s areas of expertise.
Get Involved
Build your résumé and expand your social circle simultaneously by joining clubs, honor societies, and more that help you connect with folks with similar interests.
- The John S. Toll Research Program
- The Libby and Douglass Cater Society of Junior Fellows
- Phi Beta Kappa honor society
- Honor Society: Pi Mu Epsilon
- Clubs: ESports, Association for Women in Mathematics Student Chapter, Makers Union, Washington Interactive Gaming Society (WIGS)
Rachel Beall '25
Columbia, Maryland
MAJORS AND MINORS
- Math & Environmental Science Majors
- Chesapeake Regional Studies Minor
EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
- Cater Society research on food security in Bermuda and comparing indigenous uses and beliefs about stones in South Dakota and Peru
- Center for Environment and Society Herbalism Internship; Chesapeake Semester
CAMPUS ACTIVITIES
- Campus Garden, head apiculturist; STEM Sisters
- Yoga Instructor; Quantitative Skills Center tutor
- “We want everyone to feel like the campus garden is their space. My freshman year, I was quiet and kind of reserved, and I really needed that community. In all these climate change studies, a lot of the solutions start with community-based practices, building community and trust with one another. This is how this happens: build this community of people who do care and who want to be together and who find joy in this.”