Sixty-three K-State students - including 26 math majors - won Goldwater Scholarships between 1986 and 2008. Only Princeton and Harvard have produced more Goldwater Scholars than K-State. The Goldwater Scholarship Program strives to encourage promising students who plan research careers related to mathematics, engineering, or the natural sciences.

The K-State Putnam team placed 12th overall and first among public universities in the 1996 Putnam Mathematical Competition. K-State teams were 25th overall in 1999, 30th in 2004, 26th in 2005, and 29th in 2006. K-State students placed 1st in the Big 12 Conference in 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2001, 2003, 2004, and 2006. The Putnam Competition began in 1938 and is the highest level math competition for undergraduates in the United States and Canada. K-State students also placed 1st in the state-wide Kansas Collegiate Mathematics Competition in 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008.

During the last 5 years, 5 K-State teams were designated Meritorious Winners in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling, a world wide competition where teams of undergraduates create mathematical models for real world problems. In the 2007 Contest, only 14 teams in the world were given a higher rating.

One of our math majors recently was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, another a Clare Boothe Luce Scholarship, another a Department of Defense Research Fellowship, and three others National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. Four of our majors have been McNair Scholars. One of our majors recently received an Alice T. Schafer Prize Honorable Mention.

In recent years, 68 of our math majors were Participants: in undergraduate Research Programs at Argonne, Los Alamos, and Oak Ridge National Labs, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Duke University, Mills College, Ohio State University, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, SUNY/Clarkson, UCLA, the University of Illinois, the University of Minnesota, the University of Nebraska, the University of Oklahoma, Trinity University, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute; in Study Abroad at the Budapest University of Technology, Catholic University of Paris, Czech Technical University, Eötvös University, Institute Tecnológico de Monterrey, the National University of Ireland, the University of Iceland, Universidad del Belgrano, and at Blaise Pascal, Charles, Giessen, Justus-Liebig, Lille, Paderno, and Stockholm Universities; and in Internships at Allstate, American Home Life, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Boeing, Eagle Software, Excel Telecommunications, Farm Bureau, Hartford Insurance, Henderson Engineers, Hill's Pet Nutrition, IBM, Indemnity Group, Intel, Jacobs Sverdrup, John Deere, MDS Pharma Services, Microsoft, Miller and Newberg, Motorola, Mutual of Omaha, NSA, Phillips Petroleum, Raytheon, Texaco, Travelers Insurance, Trust Mark, and Western Resources.

K-State has a Center for the Integration of Undergraduate, Graduate, and Postdoctoral Research (I-Center) whose mission is to provide directed research experience for our math majors as soon as possible and in an area of their choice. K-State also has a Brainstorming and Barnstorming National Science Foundation sponsored Research Experience for Undergraduates featuring the mathematics of aviation.

Recent K-State mathematics graduates have gone on to graduate study at the California Institute of Technology, John Hopkins University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Oxford University, Princeton University, Rutgers University, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, the University of Minnesota, the University of Washington, the University of Wisconsin, Yale University, and many other universities. Other recent Kansas State mathematics graduates are working for Accenture, Allstate, American General, Bechtel Bettis, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Cerner, Ernst and Young, Garmin International, Henderson Engineers, Intel, the Jet Propulsion Lab, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Lockheed Martin, Los Alamos National Labs, Microsoft, Motorola, National Instruments, the National Security Agency, Novastar Financial, Raytheon, Sandia National Labs, Security Benefit Life, Sprint, Travelers Insurance, TRW, Zurich Financial, and many other companies.

The K-State Undergraduate Lectures in Mathematics feature presentations by alumni, faculty, employers, and Prominent Mathematicians from other universities. Ninety two math alumni have given 128 Presentations during the last 20 years.