Panel

Title: Life After College

Abstract: Mathematics and statistics majors have a variety of options after college/university. A graduate could directly head into a business/industry/non-profit/government job after graduation or continue their studies in a terminal master's degree or a Ph.D. program. Even after graduate school, choices abound: An academic career, a job in industry, a national research lab, or in business, etc. This panel will be an open discussion on these different career options and provide tips to participants on how to best prepare for life after college. The panel will allow for Q&A time for participant questions.

Panelists: 

Dr. Abbey Bourdon received her PhD from Wesleyan University in 2014. She is currently an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Wake Forest University, where she is also the director of the Research Training Program. Her research concerns modular curves and Galois representations of elliptic curves.

Martha McRoy is a Senior Research Methodologist at NORC at the University of Chicago, where she specializes in survey design, data quality, and methodological research supporting large-scale social science studies. She earned her B.S. in Statistics from Grand Valley State University and her M.S. in Survey Methodology from the University of Michigan. 

Additional panelists to be added.