Meet Dane Fasick ’25, one of 10 students selected for a 2023 Summer Research Fellowship. Dane, a junior mathematics major and secondary education minor, is from New Brighton, Pa. He and his faculty mentor, Dr. Adam Blumenthal, assistant professor of mathematics, spent their summer months working on the project “Exploring Total Burning in Graphs.” Outside of the classroom, Dane is a member of the cross country and track & field teams.
Why did you apply for the Summer Research Fellowship?
The past few summers I’d been working some more typical summer jobs, but this year I wanted to do something more related to my future. The Drinko Fellowship caught my eye, partly because I didn’t really know what research was. I asked my advisor about it, and she gave me a loose idea of what math research looks like based on some projects she’d done. The idea of making new mathematical discoveries was what really got my interest. Plus, I thought i
Fasick named February Student of the Month
Beaver County Times
NEW BRIGHTON Dane Fasick, a senior at New Brighton High School, has been named February s Student of the Month by the New Brighton Rotary Club.
The son of Jared and Dana Fasick of New Brighton, he has been involved in the marching band, cross country, track and field, intramural basketball, jazz band and musical pit orchestra. He is a member of the National Honor Society, was named Outstanding Bandsman from 2017 to 2019 and was given the King of the Beast fitness award.
Fasick s favorite school subject is mathematics. He enjoys playing basketball, riding bikes and playing music. He has worked at the YMCA since 2019 and was a VBS leader at Wildwood Chapel.