Career Day--A Huge Success

Throughout this past year, Brett has been a co-chair for an organization at UAB called Industrial Roundtable. He, along with his fellow co-chair and their committee, has organized monthly seminars with speakers from around the country. Each speaker has a PhD and shares with the students different opportunities and career paths available to them outside of academia. Industrial Roundtable also organizes a career day for graduate students to attend in April. Career day was last saturday and Brett did a great job getting things ready. They had 90 students (give or take) attending and about 12 speakers. This year they more then doubled the turnout from last year. The speakers were from all over the country. Some represented government positions and there were others representing industry such as pharmaceutical companies. The Keynote speaker was from the WHO (World Health Organization). This has been a great opportunity for Brett. He has been able to make some great contacts with different companies and he has really been able to grow as a leader. I am so proud of all the hard work he has put in to IR this year and I congratulate him on his very successful career day!!