What does a career in the biological sciences look like? At a College Alumni Mentoring Series (CAMS) Roundtable last week, undergraduates got to learn just that from alums Gabrielle Gosciniak C’13, clinical operations manager at Merck; Brielle Gehringer, C’18, GR’23, genetic counselor at Penn Medicine; and Tyler Ling, C’18, clinical business systems analyst at Allucent.
CAMS brings together students and alums in informal mentoring settings, the aim of which is to help students determine how their current academic path coincides with their career aspirations.
Some 40 undergraduates came out to the CAMS event, which took place on September 25 in Houston Hall’s Hall of Flags. They connected with mentors whose careers spanned from genetic consulting to operations and managing clinical business systems.
Tyler Ling, C’18 (left), joined clinical research organization Allucent this past December. At Penn, he majored in neuroscience and minored in fine arts and chemistry.
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