Career exploration

Major Resource Career Kit Exploration
Explorer different careers from different majors for high school students.

LifeWorks - Explore health and medical science careers
LifeWorks TM is an interactive career exploration web site for middle and high school students. Users can browse for information on more than 100 medical science and health careers by title, education required, interest area, or median salary. The site complements its factual career data by highlighting true stories of successful people illustrating the variety of real-life career pathways, from the carefully planned to the unpredictable.

The Fun Works ... for careers you never knew existed Designed for students ages 11-15 or in grades 6-9, this interactive site encourages students to explore ways to link what interests them to future careers. Created by Education Development Center with funding from the National Science Foundation

Exploring Career Information - What Interests You? The Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupations on this site are categorized according to interests and hobbies common among students. To help students continue their career exploration, each occupational description on the kids' site links to related information in the BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook.

Biotechnology
In Their Own Words
  • Roger N. Beachy, Ph.D. - Plant Biologist, Scripps Research Institute
  • Barry Bloom, Ph.D - Medical Researcher/Immunologist, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • David Golde, M.D. - Head, Division of Hematologic Oncology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City.
  • Stephen Hall - science writer based in New York and author of Invisible Frontiers, a book describing the origins of biotechnology
  • Neil Holtzman, M.D., M.P.H. - author of Proceed With Caution, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Eric Lander, D. Phil. - Member, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research; and Associate Professor of Biology & Director, Center for Genome Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • Leon Lederman, Ph.D. - Nobel laureate in physics and leading advocate for reform of science education
  • Maxine Singer, Ph.D. - President of the Carnegie Institution in Washington and active researcher at the National Institutes of Health
  • James Watson, Ph.D. - co-discoverer of the structure of DNA with Francis Crick.
Careers in Biology These are links to places where one can find information about careers in specific fields of biology. For the most part these pages are maintained by the professional/scientific organization whose specialty is that area. Career information is divided into the rather broad categories of "Molecular and Cellular" and "Organismal and Field". Some sites are fairly general and are listed in both categories. There is also a listing of some sites that provide information on specific jobs and internships.

Molecular and Cellular Biology, Health-Related Careers
Organismal or Field Biology

STEM Research opportunities For K-12 Students

STEM programs, funding information, career information, and other STEM resources for K-12 students and their parents.

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