Sciences

Outside of the classroom, Colgate students work hard on their career preparation. Along with the University’s rigorous liberal arts education, Career Services’ four-year development plan offers students a framework with actionable steps to take during each undergraduate year. The staff at Career Services would like to recognize and celebrate student accomplishments this year.

Colgate Career Services celebrates students who have landed jobs, internships, or graduate school acceptances in a variety of industries and areas of study. Through a rigorous liberal arts education, a powerful alumni network, and committed academic and career support, students continue to excel throughout their undergraduate years and pursue successful careers after graduation.

Starting this June, all students are invited to a summer-long series of interactive virtual events with alumni.

I was given the opportunity this summer to perform research at The Young Lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara, a lab focusing on community ecology and conservation biology. I was tasked with leading a new experiment on tick survivorship and how it is influenced by global warming.

This summer I was able to travel down to Bocas Del Toro, Panama to work with a medical mission group called Floating Doctors. Floating Doctors was started 8 years ago with the purpose of delivering healthcare to indigenous communities that lacked access to hospitals, doctors, and healthcare in general.

This summer I worked in the lab of Dr. Ken Jacobson in the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. The lab studies the structure-activity relationship of G-protein coupled receptors and small molecules.

Carin Rollins ’94 and John Marlow ’90 are two Colgate graduates who are rapidly becoming household names in biotech. Both were invited back to Colgate on February 11, 2019 to speak about their experiences as innovators and industry leaders.

This summer, I had the opportunity to intern in the Department of Cancer Biology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. I specifically worked on determining that a protein involved in inflammation can be degraded by a specific member of the degradation pathway.

For the past six weeks, I was able to dive into the field of nephrology with some of the most renowned research physicians in their field.