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Career Opportunities – The Sciences at SU

Experience in applied settings through internships and other opportunities is an excellent way for you to explore career ideas or demonstrate your commitment to a field. The science faculty at Susquehanna have close working contacts with off−campus industry and governmental agencies to secure valuable placements.

Recent SU science internship sites include:

  • Animal Emergency Center
  • DuBois Regional Medical Center
  • Environmental Protection Agency
  • Evangelical Community Hospital
  • Geisinger Medical Center
  • Merck and Co., Inc.
  • National Park Service
  • Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection
  • Pennsylvania Dept. of Transportation
  • Princeton University
  • Selinsgrove Dental Arts
  • Sunbury Community Hospital
  • T&D's Cats of the World – Exotic Animal Refuge
  • U.S. Geological Survey
  • Wyeth Pharmaceuticals

Susquehanna integrates top-notch liberal arts programs and equally strong professional programs to provide flexible preparation for graduate and professional school, careers and life−long learning. Our science students are successful at the top graduate and professional schools in the country.

Graduate and professional schools attended by recent SU alumni include:

  • Dartmouth Medical School – M.D.
  • George Washington University School of Medicine – M.D.
  • Lehigh University – M.S., mechanical engineering
  • National Institutes of Health – AIDS research fellowship
  • Pennsylvania College of Optometry – O.D.
  • Pennsylvania State University – Ph.D., chemical physics
  • Temple School of Dentistry – D.M.D.
  • University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine – D.V.M.
  • University of Nebraska, Ph.D., physics
  • University of New Hampshire, M.S., water resources
  • University of South Florida, M.S., hydrogeology
  • University of Utah – Ph.D.
  • University of Washington – Ph.D.
  • Virginia Tech, D.V.M.
  • Yale University, M.S.

Recent employers of SU science graduates include:

  • Borton Lawson Engineering, environmental scientist
  • Bristol−Myers Squibb, assistant research scientist
  • Chevron, staff scientist
  • Clean Harbors Environmental Services, chemist
  • FBI Forensic Laboratory
  • Merck and Co., Inc., biochemist
  • National Aquarium of Baltimore, herpetologist
  • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  • New Jersey Dept. of Environmental Protection
  • Origene Technology, research
  • Penn State Hershey Medical Center
  • Pittsburgh Nephrology Associates
  • Roche Molecular Systems, scientist
  • TEVA Pharmaceuticals, associate scientist
  • U.S. Filter Groundwater Services, field technician

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