The Annual Fund supports student career services

Career services for Arts & Sciences students are among the many programs
that receive Annual Fund support. During the fall semester, three panels of graduate school alumni offered tips and advice to today’s graduate students. Panelists spoke on career options in the sciences beyond academia, and other sessions described opportunities in the humanities and in social sciences.

“In hosting these panels we aim to stimulate the imaginations of graduate students in considering their career options,” said Wendy Perry, assistant director for graduate Arts & Sciences career services. “The panels provide graduate students an opportunity to network with recent graduate alumni in the professional world and learn from their insights and advice on the job search process. We received tremendously positive feedback from the students who participated.”

Panelists at the graduate alumni panel for the life, physical and mathematical sciences were David Witkowski (MS, Microbiology ’00), senior consultant, IBM Global Business Services; John McCune (PhD, Physics ’01), director, Financial Institutions Group, SNL Financial; Claire Kaufman Brown (PhD, Biology ’03), patent examiner, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office; Michael Torok (PhD, Biochemistry ’06), lead clinical research associate, PRA International; Andrea Stith (PhD, Biophysics ’01), program officer, Grants & Special Programs, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Michael Keens (MS, Public Health Sciences ’01), account director, PRA International; and R. Michael Broad (PhD, Pharmacology, MBA Darden ’04), executive catalyst, BioCatalyst International.

Fundraising Progress

With a goal of $4.2 million for the 2006-2007 fiscal year, the Annual Fund supports workshops, travel, labs and more. 

As of Dec. 31, 2006, donations to the fund had reached $2,337,718.14, a 1 percent increase over last year’s Dec. 31 total.

The College also had raised almost $122 million, nearly a quarter of the $500 million goal for the Campaign for the College. Overall, campaign gifts to the University were more than a third of the way toward the $3 billion campaign goal.

View fundraising progress for the Arts & Sciences Annual Fund and toward the $500 million Campaign for the College.