Here are the participants of the NSF-REU who performed the research.
| Name | Topics | Undergraduate School | Year |
| Aimee Kalas | Divisible Tilings on Surfaces | Youngstown State U. (OH) | 2003 |
| Robert Rhoades | Separability of Tilings | Bucknell U. (PA) | 2003 |
| Jason Saccamano | Divisible Tilings on Surfaces | Swarthmore (NY) | 2003 |
| Rachel Thomas | Separability of Tilings | St. Olaf (MN) | 2003 |
| Isabel Averill | Quadrilateral Classification | U. of Akron (OH) | 2002 |
| Michael Burr | Vanishing Cycles | Tufts U. (MA) | 2002 |
| John Gregoire | Quadrilateral Classification | Concordia College (SD) | 2002 |
| Kathryn Zuhr | Moduli of Quadrilateral | Mount Holyoke College (MA) | 2002 |
| Niles Johnson | Monodromy of Branched Covers | U. of Rochester (NY) | 2001 |
| Yvonne Lai | Fundamental Regions | MIT (MA) | 2001 |
| Matt Ong | Hecke Algebras | Princeton U. (NJ) | 2001 |
| Steve Young | Separability of Tilings | Rose-Hulman (IN) | 2001 |
| Rebecca Lehman | Geodesics and Tilings | Princeton University (NJ) | 2000 |
| Shaun McCance | Ovals in Tilings | Purdue U at Calumet (IN) | 2000 |
| Sarah Weissman | Ovals in Tilings | Boston University (MA) | 2000 |
| Chad White | Geodesics and Tilings | University of Missouri – Rolla | 2000 |
| Nick Baeth | Separability of Cyclic Tilings | Pacific Lutheran University (WA) | 1999 |
| Jason Deblois | Separability of Cyclic Tilings | U. of Chicago | 1999 |
| Lisa Powell | Separability of Cyclic Tilings | Harvard (MA) | 1999 |
| Kevin Woods | Geodesics and Tilings | Wake Forest U. (SC) | 1999 |
| Ryan Derby-Talbot | Geodesics and Tilings | Pomona College (CA) | 1998 |
| Robert M. Dirks | Tilings in Genus 6 and 7 | Wabash College (IN) | 1998 |
| Maria T. Sloughter | Tilings in Genus 6 and 7 | Carleton College (MN) | 1998 |
| Brandy M. Smith | Divisible Tilings | Eastern Kentucky U. | 1998 |
| James M. Belk | Splitting Tilings at Mirrors | Binghamton U. (NY) | 1997 |
| Dawn M. Haney | Divisible Tilings | Michigan State U. | 1997 |
| Lori T. McKeough | Divisible Tilings | St Mary’s College (IN) | 1997 |
| Reva A. Schweitzer | Tilings and Cwatsets | Ohio University | 1997 |
| Patrick E. Swickard | Tilings and Cwatsets | Rose-Hulman (IN) | 1997 |
| C. Ryan Vinroot | Tilings in genus 4 and 5 | North Carolina State U. | 1997 |
| Dennis A. Schmidt | Ovals in Tilings | St. Norbert College (WI) | 1996 |