{"id":8055,"date":"2025-09-16T11:40:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T15:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/?page_id=8055"},"modified":"2025-09-16T11:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T15:40:15","slug":"professional-development","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/professional-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Professional Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Professional Development group aims to help students explore career opportunities and build professional connections in neuroscience, optics, and bioengineering. Each semester, we host &#8220;Lunch &amp; Learn&#8221; events featuring industry speakers to showcase diverse career paths and encourage dialogue between students and professionals. Additionally, we plan to organize an annual career panel, resume workshops, headshot sessions, and other activities designed to support networking and career growth. Our group was founded in 2025 and is led by students in the Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience graduate programs.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Leadership<\/h3>\n<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><span>\n\t<ul class=\"profile-listing profile-format-advanced\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-advanced has-title post-8124 profile type-profile status-publish hentry profile-field-nrt-students profile-field-professional-development\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/profile\/kate-herrema\/\" class=\"profile-link profile-link-advanced\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-advanced\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/neurophotonics\/files\/2025\/09\/Herrema_Kate-600x600-1-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-advanced\">Kate Herrema<\/h6>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title profile-title-advanced\">Professional Development Group Chair | PhD Candidate | BME | Devor Lab<\/p>\t<\/a>\n\n\t\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-advanced has-title post-7923 profile type-profile status-publish hentry department-bme profiles-student profile-field-nrt-students profile-field-professional-development\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/profile\/brad-rauscher\/\" class=\"profile-link profile-link-advanced\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-advanced\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/neurophotonics\/files\/2025\/07\/Rauscher_Brad-600x600-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-advanced\">Brad Rauscher<\/h6>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title profile-title-advanced\">Professional Development Member | BME | Devor Lab<\/p>\t<\/a>\n\n\t\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Upcoming Events<\/h3>\n<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Professional Development group aims to help students explore career opportunities and build professional connections in neuroscience, optics, and bioengineering. Each semester, we host &#8220;Lunch &amp; Learn&#8221; events featuring industry speakers to showcase diverse career paths and encourage dialogue between students and professionals. Additionally, we plan to organize an annual career panel, resume workshops, headshot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23267,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8056,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8055\/revisions\/8056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}