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Math Club

Interdisciplinary Team

Math students help campus partners with data analysis, modeling, visualization, statistics, and quantitative reasoning.

2026-2027 project cycleStudent projects and campus partner supportUpdated: May 29, 2026Faculty Advisor: Andrew Volk

Two Pathways

Choose the path that fits you.

For Math Students

Build applied project experience.

  • Work on real problems.
  • Build consulting experience.
  • Practice communication.
  • Learn data and modeling tools.
Join the Team
For Faculty and Departments

Bring a project idea.

Bring a dataset, modeling question, visualization need, statistical question, or quantitative problem. The team will help scope the work and match students to the project.

Request Help

Project Areas

What the team can help with.

Data

Data Analysis & Visualization

Help a group explore, clean, summarize, and visualize data for a research or class project.

Statistics

Statistical Consulting

Support experimental design, descriptive analysis, inference, or interpretation questions.

Modeling

Mathematical Modeling

Build a model for a population, process, physical system, business setting, or campus question.

Operations

Process Optimization

Study scheduling, logistics, resource use, or other systems that benefit from quantitative reasoning.

Project Rhythm

How the 2026-2027 plan is structured.

  1. September 2026: Outreach and partnership building.
    Introduce the team to departments such as Biology, Business, Psychology, and Engineering.
  2. October 2026: Interdisciplinary project pitch event.
    Campus partners pitch research problems and project teams form around interest and skills.
  3. November 2026: Project work and initial analysis.
    Teams clarify the problem, clean data, and begin analysis or modeling.
  4. Spring 2027: Deep work, final reporting, and showcase.
    Teams develop models, run analyses, prepare results, and share collaborative work.

Project Request

Request Math Club project support.

Send a short project note with the information below. The team can then help scope the request and determine whether it is a good fit.

  • Project title and department
  • Contact person
  • Brief description
  • Timeline
  • Data availability or constraints
Start Project Request Email