Professional societies can also be a good way to learn about career paths or job opportunities.
There is also a meeting of the Eastern Branch of the ESA in Cherry Hill, NJ on March 15-March 18. In the last BioJobs update , I mentioned that if you are planning to attend graduate school next year in science, mathematics, or engineering, you may want to look into the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program and Minority Graduate Research Fellowship Program . This information is already filed in the BioJobs notebooks, but there is also a duplicate set of information circulating among the faculty. Dr. Scott has asked me to remind everybody that there are two volumes of the Peterson's Guides to post-graduate education in the Bio. Dept.'s Advisement Office.