Internships
All Biology majors complete an internship of at least 120 hours, often during the summer before their senior year. For many students, this experience helps them decide on careers and sometime leads directly to employment. Recent internship sites include:
The Nature Conservancy
Montshire Museum of Science
Audubon Society of NH
NH Natural Heritage Inventory, NH DRED
NH Department of Parks
Dartmouth Medical School
Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), NH
Lake Sunapee Protective Association
Society for Protection of NH Forests
New London Hospital
Pleasant Lake Veterinary Clinic
Humane Society of the Upper Valley
State of NH Dept. of Safety, Forensics Lab
Maine Audubon Society
Careers in Biology
Biology graduates are prepared with necessary skills and knowledge for a meaningful and rewarding career in biology.
The Department of Natural Sciences offers advice and assistance to students interested in health-related professional schools. This includes dentistry, optometry, physicians assistant, doctor of podiatry, doctor of osteopathy as well as medical or veterinary school. Students across campus meet with a pre-med/pre-vet advisor to discuss career planning and preparing for admissions requirements. Students may explore careers that will meet their interests and learn about educational opportunities and requirements. Practitioners and school representatives are invited to campus to assist students in their plans for the future. The department offers all courses that are required for admissions to health professional schools.
Some graduates immediately attend graduate school, while others enter the work force. Regardless of what our alumni undertake initially, however, nearly half enter graduate or professional school within five years of graduation.
Among the positions held by some of our graduates are public use specialist, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; optometrist, safety coordinator and laboratory technician, QuestTech; mechanical engineer in optics design and manufacturing, Kodak, Health Imaging Division; laboratory technician, Immunogen; senior research technologist, Massachusetts General Hospital; research technician, MIT/Whitehead Institute Center for Genome Research; research associate, Amgen Corporation; education specialist, Massachusetts Audubon Society; kidney research, Boston Medical; doctor of osteopathy; and physician's assistant. Many alumni are also high school biology teachers.
A major in biology can prepare you for:
a career in the great outdoors in marine biology, environmental toxicology, or conservation biology
laboratory research making important contributions in genetics, cures for cancer, or research into animal diseases
a career in forensic science
science education as a teacher or museum curator
professional and allied health careers
graduate school or advanced study in any field of biology
medical, dental, or veterinary school
