Career Development Resources

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.

Recent News

Geisel’s Quantitative Biomedical Sciences Program Graduates First 4+1 Student: Despina Karalis D '18, Guarini '19 is the first "4+1 student" to receive a Master of Science in Epidemiology from the Quantitative Biomedical Sciences (QBS) program. Read more here.

Geisel Receives $12.5 Million NIH COBRE Grant to Establish Center for Quantitative Biology: "The training we’ve done with grad students in our QBS program has been very successful in merging different fields,” says lead principle investigator, Dr. Mike Whitfield. “The big focus now will be to take that to the faculty level and encourage people to cross disciplines and work together in ways that are really more than the sum of their parts.” Read more here.

Saeed Hassanpour, PhD, a QBS faculty member and an assistant professor of biomedical data science and of epidemiology at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, and of computer science at Dartmouth College, has received the 2019 Agilent Early Career Professor Award. Read more here.

Research from Dartmouth’s Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program formed the backbone of technical information used by the state of New Hampshire in its recent decision to reduce arsenic levels in public drinking water in the state. Read more here. Epidemiology Department Chair, Margaret Karagas, PhD, a QBS faculty member is the Director of Dartmouth's Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program. She is also Director of the Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Center and Center for Molecular Epidemiology.

Two undergraduate students who are students of two QBS faculty members have been awarded the prestigious Goldwater scholarship. Jason Wei '20 is a student of Professor Saeed Hassenpour and Emma Easterman '20 is a student of Professor Olga Zhaxybayeva. Congratulations to Jason and Emma! Read more here.

Jennifer Emond, MS, PhD, assistant professor of Biomedical Data Science and Pediatrics and QBS Faculty Member is leading a Dartmouth research team aimed to extend previous research and develop a brief, parent-reported scale to measure external food cue responsiveness for preschool-age children that could be employed easily in their natural environments.Their study, Measurement of external food cue responsiveness in preschool-age children: Preliminary evidence for the use of the external food cue responsiveness scale is newly published in the journal, Appetite. Read more here.

James O’Malley, MS, PhD, a professor of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and of biomedical data science at the Geisel School of Medicine and director of the Program in Quantitative Biomedical Sciences, has received the 2019 ISPOR (International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research) Award for Excellence in Health Economics and Outcomes Research Methodology. Read more here.

Duane Compton, Dean of the Geisel Medical School has announced that Michael L. Whitfield, PhD, has been named the chair of the Department of Biomedical Data Science at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. Read more here.

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