Undergraduate research projects and independent studies serve as outstanding supplementary training for your future career, whether it involves graduate school or collaborative teamwork. If you are an undergraduate student and would like to sharpen your mathematical thinking, writing, and presentation skills by looking at some topics outside your course work or an application of concepts from your favorite math course, you can take part in a research project with faculty members. Â Here are some projects on which I have mentored undergraduate students at the University of Arizona: