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