Career Development Resources – Graduate Program in Quantitative Biomedical Sciences

QBS Students have access to a wealth of career development information though CPD, Guarini, and Tuck. Please review links to reference material before seeking guidance from a career development professional listed below:

QBS PhD Students: Mentors and Kerry Landers

2nd Yr MS Students: Kerry Landers & Shaniqua Jones

1st Yr MS Students: Brian Kelly (resumes/coverletters only) & Shaniqua Jones

Note: All QBS students have access to DartBoard portal through CPD

Center for Professional Development (CPD)

General Information
DartBoard is a one stop portal for resources including program sign-ups, internships and full-time job listings, on-campus recruiting information and employer research.

Guarini School of Advanced and Graduate Studies

Thayer School of Engineering

Note: QBS students are ineligible for assistance through Thayer Career Services but can review the online reference material.

Thayer Career Fair
Job & Internship Search
Company Search by Major
Interviewing
Networking
- Linked In
- Questions to Ask Alumni
- Networking Letters
- Professional Associations Directory
Applying to Graduate School

Programming Portfolio

GitHub

International Students

Visa & Employment Information
Note: International QBS students are eligible for non-Dartmouth internships through Curricular Practical Training (CPT) when enrolled in QBS185:Health Data Science Capstone, QBS184:Epidemiology Capstone, and QBS187:QBS PhD Student Internship.

Student Employment (Masters Students Only)

QBS Faculty are great resources for securing part-time employment. Please be sure to indicate your student status, your background, and interests when emailing faculty. Include your resume/CV.
Utilize the Student Employment Office and their listings.
Visa Holders: Students at Dartmouth on the F1 visa can work a maximum of 20hrs when classes are in session and full-time when classes are not in session. Employer must be Dartmouth College. Employer cannot be Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center.
US Citizens and Permanent Residents do not have employment limitations.

QBS Faculty Member and Associate Professor of Engineering, Solomon Diamond and his team have designed and created non-medical face masks with higher protection that standard face masks. Read more here about this amazing effort to help our community here .

QBS Faculty, Nicolas Jacobsen, PhD and James O’Malley, PhD and QBS Students, Damien Lekkas and George Price recently authored and published a research brief examining the impact of COVID-19 stay-at-home orders on mental health -related Google search behavior. Read more here

Christiaan Rees, 2018 QBS PhD graduate and soon to be a graduate of Geisel School of Medicine stands ready to serve in the fight against Covid-19. Read more here.

Jennifer Emond, MS, PhD, assistant professor of Biomedical Data Science and Pediatrics and QBS Faculty Member, has published the results of her year long study that provides evidence that fast food intake leads to weight gain in preschoolers. Read more here.

Christiaan Rees, 2018 QBS PhD graduate and fourth year Geisel School of Medicine student was recently named a 2019-20 Syvertsen Scholar. Dr. Rees' PhD research focused primarily on the use of computational methods, including machine learning techniques, to identify biomarkers produced by pathogenic bacteria and fungi. Read more here.

Scott Gerber, PhD, professor of professor of molecular and systems biology and of biochemistry and cell biology at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, QBS faculty member, and program director of the Cancer Biology and Therapeutics Research Program at Dartmouth’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center (NCCC), has been named the Kenneth E. and Carol L. Weg Distinguished Professor. An expert in mass spectrometry and proteomics, Gerber is the first to hold this newly established professorship given by Kenneth Weg D ’60 and his wife, Carol Weg. Read more here.

"With great power comes great responsibility." Forbes Magazine interviews Dr. Alexander Titus, a 2018 Graduate of QBS, now the Assistant Director of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Technology in the US Department of Defense. Read more here.