“The program strengthened my abilities to problem-solve and to quickly find information that I need, which conferred on me some major advantages when I began to search for a job.”
After graduation, Diana spent several months as a technician in Jelle Atema’s lab and took a part-time position with Inspirica, which is a private one-on-one tutoring and test-preparation firm. At the same time, Diana decided she wanted to see what else she could do with a science background and ended up at AMEC, an international consulting firm, as a human health and ecological risk assessor. Within a year, her technical supervisors switched companies and brought me with them to ARCADIS, another large international consulting firm.
Diana is now a PhD student at Stonybrook University, where she studies mutualism in the Peterson Marine Community Ecology Lab. Diana specializes in how and why chemosymbiotic clams and seagrasses are mutualistic.