There Will Be An Answer
Professor Joseph Gallian, our Pi Mu Epsilon speaker from this past fall, has been featured in a Youtube documentary about his long running REU program at the University of Minnesota - Duluth. Professor Gallian has been running his REU program at UMD continuously since 1987. You can find the video at https://youtu.be/u0yHoZTgHgY. If you need a break, it is well worth your time to watch.
Here is some information about Professor Gallian from our Pi Mu Epsilon lecture this past fall:
Joseph Gallian has been a professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth since 1972. Gallian has authored or edited six books (Contemporary Abstract Algebra, Cengage; For All Practical Purposes, W.H. Freeman (co-author); Principles and Practices of Mathematics, Springer-Verlag; Proceedings of the Conference on Summer Undergraduate Mathematics Research Programs, editor, American Mathematical Society; Proceedings of the Conference on Promoting Undergraduate Research in Mathematics, editor, American Mathematical Society; Mathematics and Sports, Mathematical Association of America) and over 100 articles. Between 1977 and 2019, Gallian ran 40 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) programs at Duluth. It is one of the oldest and longest running REUs in the country. Gallian served a 2-year term as the President of the Mathematical Association of America starting in January 2007. In addition, he was co-director of Project NExT from 1998 to 2012, Associate Editor of MAA OnLine since 1997, a member of the advisory board of Math Horizons from 1993 to 2013, and a member of the editorial board of the American Mathematical Monthly for 15 years. Gallian has won both the Allendoerfer and Evans awards for exposition from the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) and was the Pólya lecturer for the MAA from 1999 to 2001. His excellence in teaching earned him the Haimo Award for distinguished teaching from the MAA in 1993 and he was the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Minnesota Professor of the Year in 2003. In 2019 he received the MAA's Mary P. Dolciani Award for making a distinguished contribution to the mathematical education of K-16 students in the United States or Canada, and in 2011 he received the MAA's Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Distinguished Service to Mathematics Award.