PhD Career Exploration Fellow Spotlight: Kyndall Nicholas

Hosted by Genentech

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 degree …

By Alison Howard
Alison Howard Associate Director, Graduate Students & Postdocs
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Navigating Health Disparities: My Summer in Research and Clinical Practice

Leslie Njingang, NUR ’26, Silver Springs, MD

This summer, I had the amazing opportunity at Adventist Healthcare to conduct research on health disparities and social determinants of health, specifically focusing on the barriers and facilitators that people of color and …

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Language, Stories, and Connection: An Immigration Law Intern’s Summer

Mahala Garcia-Bartch, COL ’26, Pennsylvania

This summer, I had the incredible opportunity to work as a legal intern for the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society in Pennsylvania (HIASPA), a non-profit organization that works to provide legal aid to immigrants struggling to …

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Career Services
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Perspectives from a BioSciences Recruiter – Q&A Session

As a part of Career Services’ Career Insights Series for Penn graduate students and postdocs, we hosted a recruiter from Calico Labs to learn more about the ins and outs of recruiting.  Below is a snapshot of the advice offered …

By Dianne Hull
Dianne Hull Senior Associate Director, Graduate Students & Postdocs
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Following up after a career fair

As we get close to wrapping out our first major round of career fairs this Fall, I wanted to highlight some ways that you can extend the value of the conversations you started either in-person in Houston Hall or Virtually …

By Natty Leach
Natty Leach Senior Associate Director, Wharton Undergrad / Co-host, CS Radio
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Brains! Understanding sex differences in stroke outcomes, using mice as a model organism

Elizabeth Ni, COL ’26, New Jersey

This summer, I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to continue living in Philly and continue with the neuroscience lab I started researching with the beginning of my sophomore year! I feel fortunate …

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Career Services
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Blessings Behind Working at a Building Materials Startup

Hannah Kim, COL ’27, Livingston, NJ

Wrapping up my freshman spring semester, I was determined to work in the entrepreneurial space during the following summer in any capacity I could. I eagerly accepted my offer at EcoForge, a sustainability building …

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Career Services
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CS Radio – Episode 211: Career Conversations On Campus

We know that students have meaningful career conversations beyond the Career Services office. In this episode, Michael, Natty, and Lorna reflect on who had major career impacts on their lives and discuss how Penn Career Services is trying to bring …

By Michael DeAngelis
Michael DeAngelis Senior Associate Director, Communications & Technology
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PhD Career Exploration Fellow Spotlight: Kobe Abney

Hosted by Integral Molecular

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 Howard Associate Director, Graduate Students & Postdocs
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My summer in Railway Design Corporation

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 …

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Career Services
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