Where have Williams Biology majors gone after graduation?
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Academia
- Faculty member of Biology Dept. at DePauw University
- Faculty member at Wellesley
- Faculty member in bioinformatics UC Santa Cruz
- Faculty member in evolution U. Texas
- Faculty at medical school, U Mass Worcester, Ob/Gyn
- Assistant Professor at CUNY
Business
- After getting a PhD in Immunology from Harvard, joined Decision Resources, Waltham, MA (market intelligence to pharmaceutical and biotech companies)
- Animal research for Disney World
- Computer consulting, Cambridge, MA
- Chubb Group, Atlanta
Dentistry
- Harvard School of Dentistry
- Dentistry, oral surgery
Education
- Teacher at Emma Willard since 1994; received outstanding teaching award in 2002
- Teacher at Hathaway Brown School, a private girls school near Cleveland
- San Francisco Exploratorium
- Deckhand for Sea Education Association, woods Hole
- Teach for America, Houston
Graduate school/Postdoc
Biology
- U. Michigan
- Utah
- UC Davis, Plant Biology
- UC Davis, Ph.D. program in evolutionary biology
- U. Penn (after teaching at Berkshire Country Day School immediately after graduation)
- Yale, neurobiology
- MIT
- Harvard
- UCSF
- Fulbright Scholarship to South Africa
- Boston University
Law
- Harvard Law School
- NYU Law School
- Lawyer, Williamstown
Medicine
- Mayo Clinic research on tissue regeneration; microsurgery
- NYU School of medicine
- SUNY Stony Brook medical School (after teaching for a year at private school in NYC)
- MD-PhD program at Washington University Medical School
- Ph.D./MD program Vanderbilt, residency in pathology
Non-profit sector
- Co-founder of Celebrate Possibility working with middle- and high-school students to express their concerns through art
- CEO of Tropical Nature promoting conservation through ecotourism
- Spent three years in Peace Corps in Haiti before becoming a researcher in the kucherlapati lab at Harvard medical School
- Peace Corps before attending graduate school, MIT
- Started Fitness Forward to promote healthy lifestyles in kids (while working on an MD – PhD at Duke)
- Oceana (DC)
- Worldwatch Institute, before attending Yale graduate school in School of Forestry to study biodiversity in traditional agricultural landscapes focusing on Latin America
- Environmental and energy policy
Other graduate programs
- Graduate study in international relations at Columbia
Publishing/writing/editing
- Nature Publishing
Research–Industry/University/Government
- National Marine Fisheries Service, Florida
- Chromatin, Inc (Chicago)
- Internship with CIMMYT, Texcoco, Mexico, agricultural research
- Bioinformatics research, Broad institute, Cambridge, MA
Veterinary school/veterinarian
- PhD in neubiology and then DVM from Cornell
- DVM at U. Penn
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