COMET CAREER PATHWAYS

Comet Career Pathways Career Checkup Survey [Link]

This is a self-reflection career checkup survey for STEM majors at all stages. We are collecting optional, anonymous responses to better understand what students and research trainees are doing to determine their career paths. 


Comet Career Pathways Seminar Series

Summary of pre-seminar survey data can be found here.

2020 Schedule

Organizing Committee: Regina Baglia, Ke Ji, Whitney Ong, and Jasmine Tutol

Hiu Kam, M.S.

Scientist at Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Time: Friday, May 22 at 11 AM CST

Location and sign-up: WebEx sign-up by invitation only to @UTDChemBio for beta-testing


Dan Seyer, Ph.D.

R&D Lead for Innovations and Products at Bayer Crop Science

Time: Friday, June 5 at 10 AM CST

Location and sign-up: WebEx invite will be sent to those that sign up by 6 PM on June 4 at the link found here.


Rita Strack, Ph.D.

Scientific Editor at Nature Methods

Time: Wednesday, June 24 at 10 AM CST

Location and sign-up: WebEx invite will be sent to those that sign up by 6 PM on June 22 at the link found here.


Shannon Stone, Ph.D.

Senior Talent and Operations Manager at Verge Genomics

Time: Friday, July 10 at 12 PM CST

Location and sign-up: WebEx invite will be sent to those that sign up by 6 PM on July 9 at the link found here


Stuart Cantrill, Ph.D.

Chief Editor at Nature Chemistry

Time: Thursday, July 23 at 4 PM CST

Location and sign-up: WebEx invite will be sent to those that sign up by 6 PM on July 22 at the link found here


Gerit Pototschnig, Ph.D.

Medicinal Chemist at Eli Lilly

Time: Friday, July 31 at 11 AM CST

Location and sign-up: WebEx invite will be sent to those that sign up by 6 PM on July 30 at the link found here


Gordon Irvine, Ph.D.

Sales Engineer at Formulaction

Time: Friday, August 7 at 12 PM CST

Location and sign-up: WebEx invite will be sent to those that sign up by 6 PM on August 6 at the link found here


2021 Schedule

Organizing Committee: Derik Adams, Mariah Cook, Ke Ji, Whitney Ong, Shelby Phelps, and Jasmine Tutol

Philip Forshee, Ph.D.

Senior Principal Scientist at Authentix

Time: Monday, May 24 at 12 PM CST

Location and sign-up: MS Teams invite will be sent to those that sign up by 6 PM on May 20 here.


Gina Baglia, Ph.D.

Scientist at Peptilogics

Time: Monday, June 7 at 12 PM CST

Location and sign-up:MS Teams invite will be sent to those that sign up by 6 PM on June 3 here.


Gregory Hundt, Ph.D.

Regional Technical Sales Manager at Halliburton

Time: Monday, June 21 at 12 PM CST

Location and sign-up: MS Teams invite will be sent to those that sign up by 6 PM on June 17 here.