trueCMSE,College of Natural Science,Mathematics01/25/2023$1.9 million NSF grant to amplify math research, community, takes shape at Michigan StateMathematicians at Michigan State will use a five-year, $1.9 million National Science Foundation training grant to amplify the university’s success in math research by creating communities of undergraduates, graduates, post-graduates and faculty working in topology and related mathematical areas. The goal: To create environments that nurture mentorship and connections and ultimately open doors to more inclusivity and broader recruitment.Val OsowskiThe topology group at MSU has a long tradition of mentoring graduate students and postdocs. This topological figure depicts a symmetry of 3-dimentional shapes arising from knotted curves formed by “satellite operations” taken from a paper, “Rank Expanding Satellites, Whitehead Doubles, and Heegaard Floer Homology, by Irving Dai, Matthew Hedden, Abhishek Mallick and Matt Stroffregen. Mallick was an MSU Ph.D.; student of Hedden’s, who graduated in 2021.Mathematicians at Michigan State will use a five-year, $1.9 million National Science Foundation training grant to amplify the university’s success in math research by creating communities of undergraduates, graduates, post-graduates and faculty working in topology and related mathematical areas.MathematicsNSFResearch Training Grantcollaborationmentorshiptopology