This fall, we will be featuring blog posts written by PhD students who participated in Career Services’ Career Exploration Fellowship (CEF), a program that helps doctoral candidates explore their career interests through networking opportunities with advanced …
By Alison Howard
Alison HowardAssociate Director, Graduate Students & Postdocs
Xinya Liu, Weitzman Masters in City & Regional Planning ’25, China, Tianjin
This summer, I had the opportunity to intern at Railway Design Corporation, the largest transportation infrastructure design institute in China. This company is responsible for the survey and …
In the Summer of 2024, I had the incredible opportunity to intern at the early-stage startup Zero-True, with the valuable support of Penn’s Career Services Summer Award. Zero-True is a cutting-edge company offering an …
Law is a highly competitive and rigorous field of study, and acceptance into one of the top-ranked institutions can be incredibly challenging. This is why knowing the acceptance rates and class profiles of each of these prestigious T14 law schools …
By delving into the intricacies of neurodevelopmental disorders, I have chosen a unique way to confront my fear of insects. My current research involves the modeling of de novo spliceosome mutations in Drosophila, which …
During this past summer, I had the unique opportunity to work with Shanghai Weiershuo International Logistics, a supply chain management firm located in China. Going into the summer, I had a core interest in …
Nonprofit organizations and volunteering go hand in hand. Organizations rely on volunteers to support their programming, spread awareness of their mission, and help keep them attuned to what’s going on in the world, while volunteers gain valuable networking and professional …
PhDs and postdocs – career fairs are not just for undergraduates! Many employers who attend career fairs are also very interested in meeting with PhDs and postdocs. Career Services’ next on-campus career fair – the BioSciences Career Fair on September …
By Dianne Hull
Dianne HullSenior Associate Director, Graduate Students & Postdocs
This fall, we will be featuring blog posts written by PhD students who participated in Career Services’ Career Exploration Fellowship (CEF), a program that helps doctoral candidates explore their career interests through networking opportunities …
By Alison Howard
Alison HowardAssociate Director, Graduate Students & Postdocs
This summer, I was a teaching fellow at Breakthrough Greater Boston. I designed my own curriculum and ran a daily social studies classroom on controversial federal laws. My audience was thirty-five eighth-grade public …