Heartland Partnership Visit Page
What is the Heartland Partnership?
The Heartland Partnership is a collection of schools in the Midwest that have come together in order to help each other.
There are thirteen schools in the partnership including the University of Iowa, and they are displayed on the map below.
Here's how it works. Two Iowa graduate students, one speaker and one support, travel to a heartland school and give a math talk,
in their area, at a level which is to be negotiated. These often serve as the school's math club talk.
After the talk is over, many schools like to hold a short Q&A about what life is like as a graduate student at Iowa.
After the Q&A, there is usually some time to spend
getting to know some of the professors and undergraduates.
Heartland visits serve to better integrate faculty and graduate students
here at Iowa with those at the Heartland Schools. Heartland students get a
chance to learn about graduate school in mathematics and to form connections
with current Mathematics graduate students, which we hope will excite them
about math. Our graduate students also benefit from the practice of giving
a talk and also forming connections with professors and students at the
schools. In the end it's win-win-win-win... you get the picture. Here is a
little information about what we have done so far this year and what is to
come.
Here is more information for any graduate students who are interested in visiting a Heartland School.
updated (7/30/08)
Please email me if you have any suggestions or questions and keep me up to date on your any heartland activities that are not listed above. Thanks, Sam
email: swschmid@math.uiowa.edu
Here is a link back to some related sites:
MGB
University of Iowa Math Dept.
