Jack Mills wins the 2024 Summer Math Scholarship

Pictured, from left, UB Math undergraduate Jack Mills and his faculty mentor, Dr. Johanna Mangahas. Mills is the winner of the Summer Math Scholarship, 2024.

The UB Department of Mathematics is pleased to congratulate the winner of the 2024 Summer Math Scholarship, Jack Mills. The award includes a stipend in the range of $4,000. Mills, together with faculty mentor Dr. Johanna Mangahas,  formulated an undergraduate research project aimed at understanding Mesa paths in the hyperbolic plane. 

The department's undergraduate student research award, established in 2017, is the result of a scholarship endowment by The Summer Math Foundation, Inc. of Amherst, New York. The endowment supports a six-week, full-time summer program for the selected undergraduate student to work with a UB Mathematics faculty mentor. Learn more about the Summer Math Scholarship.