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Alum shares wisdom from career journey
Sometimes the path you think you'll follow after you leave grad school isn't the path you end up taking-and that's okay.
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Jason Marvin, Ph.D. '22, gives the alumni keynote at the 2026 Summer Success Symposium.
During the Summer Success Symposium alumni keynote session on Aug. 18, Jason Marvin, Ph.D. '22, spoke about his journey from earning his doctorate in biomedical engineering with the goal of becoming a professor to instead becoming director of partnerships and external relations at the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
"What I do now is nothing that I imagined I would be doing during my graduate training, and it wasn't even something that was on my radar until much later," he said during the talk, titled, "Finding Your Way: A Scientist's Serendipitous Career Path from Academia to Science Advocacy."
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