Higher Education: Jobs Landed

I am responsible for diagnosing benign and malignant conditions from gynecological and non-gynecological specimens.  As a Cytotechnologist, I play a key role in patient care.  I assist on fine needle aspirations (FNA) to perform onsite patient evaluations.  Primarily, our lab team screens for cervical cancer.  Our lab is currently implementing new molecular diagnostic testing which will change the face of Cytology.

At The Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan (www.isr.umich.edu), I do programming and analysis for a several studies examining economic, demographic, and environmental changes in the Chitwan Valley region of Nepal.

I am a registered nurse on the adult inpatient rehabilitation unit at University Hospital. Rehab nursing includes providing direct patient care to patients with a range of physical limitations, and mutually establishing goals with the patient to promote independence and improve quality of life. I function as part of an interdisciplinary team, forming a link between patients and their families and the rest of the rehab team.

I am the media relations contact for the U-M ice hockey and field hockey teams. Internally, I'm in charge of everything that goes on the official team websites on MGoBlue.com, which involves event recaps, feature stories, blogs, video, audio, statistics, coach and athlete biographies. Externally, I am the main contact person for all media requests about the team before, during and after events. The ice hockey team is well-covered by local newspapers, websites, radio and TV entities. Weekend work and travel is extensive from October through March each year. I also help with U-M's other varsity sports as time allows, like football, baseball and softball.

I recently started to work for the University of Michigan in a newly created position as the Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Fund’s Marketing and Communications Specialist. In this role, I will spearhead the integrated marketing communications efforts leading to increased program awareness and donor cultivation for the Prechter Fund, as well as get the word out about mental health illnesses and bipolar disorder in particular.

I am looking forward to developing and implementing strategic communications plans leading to increased awareness for the Fund and the research into bipolar disorder being done at UM and beyond. It is my responsibility to coordinate and assure quality control of all data, events, stewardship and communications. I’ll be able to make good use of my professional experience in all aspects of marketing communications, such as branding and corporate identity, website content management, newsletters and other print media, press releases and media relations, advertising, social media and event management.
The academic field is very new to me but I am excited to work together with world-class researchers, donors and staff. I hope that I’ll be able to make a difference in how people view mental illnesses and to do my part to help individuals with bipolar disorder live an excellent quality of life.

My job involves both research and teaching activities on the subject of Operations Research and Optimization. We abstract data from a range of real-world applications, and model decision making problems using mathematical programming tools. For instance, you can think of an optimization problem arising in personal financial management, in which one needs to design an investment portfolio. A mathematical model seeks an optimal solution that tells an investor the amount and the time for selling and purchasing each investment option, such that the overall expected return over a period of time is maximized. Such a model can be applied not only to financial applications, but to model practical problems in health care, military, transportation, public policy, and so on. Thanks to the University, Ann Arbor is a great place that gathers many professionals from a variety of industries, and offers great opportunities for me to cooperate with other people and apply my theoretical findings. I love my role as a researcher and a teacher, and really hope that my work can contribute to make a better society and to inspire younger generations to pursue a career in math and technology.

I recently graduated with a Ph.D. in Molecular Spectroscopy and currently pursuing my postdoctoral research in field of biomedical spectroscopy. Our research group has quite diverse set of researchers and graduate students, with emphasis on bone research and tissue engineering. My research projects focus is on analysis of biological tissues utilizing Raman Spectroscopy and Tissue Engineering of oral mucosa. The objective of these investigations is to develop non-invasive or minimal invasive techniques for identification of healthy versus non-healthy tissues.

At the University of Michigan, Life Sciences Institute, I am incharge of investigating the link between obesity and the development of metabolic complications, such as diabetes.

I am a Post-doc since March 2009 at the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences working in the field of atmospheric modeling. I use a computational model to simulate the physics of the Earth's atmosphere and investigate the underlying dynamical processes. I publish my results in peer-reviewed journals and give talks in international conferences. My job enables me to meet other researchers from all over the world and to gain valuable experience in communication.

I work on a new initiative (Open.Michigan) at U-M that's focused on helping faculty and students maximize the potential of their creative work by sharing it with the world using public copyright licenses. My work involves anything from leading technical web & data projects to managing students as they learn about copyright and open sharing. Most of my effort is spent on copyright issues & policy development and web & user experience design. At the moment I'm working with some developers to create a new content management system using the open-sourced Drupal platform. This repository will hold all of our educational resources and allow anyone in the world to download U-M learning content, remix it, and redistribute it--free from fees and free from copyright restrictions.

The Challenge Program (CP) is an interactive, activity based team-building program.  My role at the CP is that I serve as one of two full-time staff and the leadership for over 50 part-time employees.  Specifically, I coordinate the logistics and learning outcomes for the variety of groups (University groups, area High Schools, corporate groups, community groups) that come out to our site to custom design a program that meets their specific goals and objectives.  Groups come to the CP for an array of reasons; jump start a new year, get to know each other better, work on communication or other organizational development topics, annual retreats or just to have FUN!  My decision to accept this job and move to Michigan has been absolutely rewarding for me.  I have had the opportunity to create and expand professional network within the campus community which led me to a recent decision to pursue a graduate degree at Eastern Michigan University in Educational Leadership in Higher Education. 

 As a career counselor I help students and adults through the career development process including assessing their career interests, strengths, and values, locating organizations in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors that might be a good fit, and coaching them on marketing themselves through application materials (resumes, cover letters), interviews, and social media tools.

I am the Assistant Director of Small Company Initiatives.  I have a split appointment between the Center for Entrepreneurship and Corporate Relations at the College of Engineering.  The focus of my work is to engage small companies and community partners to build the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

I am responsible for investigating the mechanisms and reasons why obesity has a negative impact on health leading to metabolic syndrome, diabetes, and insulin resistance and ways to lessen the adverse health effects of obesity.

I assist in the procedure of invasive diagnostic and emergent cardiac catheterizations at the University of Michigan Hospital.