The Department: The Department of Mathematics & Statistics currently has 20 tenure-track faculty, 13 full time instructors, 80 graduate students, and 185 undergraduate majors. The department currently offers a B.S. and M.S. in Mathematics, an M.S. in Statistics, a B.S. and M.S. in Data Science, and a Ph.D. in Computational Science and Statistics. University/Community: South Dakota State University is a land-grant institution and is the state’s largest institution of higher education with an enrollment of 12,000 students. SDSU is located in Brookings, South Dakota, a community of 24,000 near the east central border of South Dakota on Interstate 29. The city has an excellent K-12 education system, is accessible to major medical facilities, has an active cultural and social environment, and has numerous lakes and parks within driving distance. It is 50 miles north of Sioux Falls, with a metropolitan area population of 227,000.