Mark Medwid Awarded Summer Funding for Undergraduate Research

2010 Mar 29

Mark Medwid, of Erie, Pa., has been awarded a $1,200 Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship to conduct an individual research project, titled "Generalizing Faithful Blockings to Factorizable Groups." Throughout the summer, Medwid, a junior mathematics major, will work with Dr. Paul Becker, associate professor of mathematics.

This year, Penn State Behrend awarded 50 such grants, totaling $77,882, to 66 students. Annually Penn State Behrend provides nearly $250,000 to support undergraduate research conducted by its students. For more information, visit behrend.psu.edu.