Here are some examples of where our alumni have gone on to work and study:

• Jovan Bertrand — Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine 
• Nikita Patel — Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship recipient
• Tahinah Lamour — Regeneron
• Rebecca Birmingham — Aurobindo Pharma USA, Inc.
• Yunia Alvarez and Lauren Drake — Nathan Kline Institute
• Samantha Fitzgerald — Cary Institute
• Tara Carney — SUNY Upstate Medical College PhD Biomedical Sciences
• Dylan Ferraro — American University of Antigua Medical College 
• Kimberly Acevedo — UMass Amherst PhD Food Science/Organismal and Evolutionary Biology
• Darian Fernandez, Andrea Zuluaga, Michael Mezzio and Michael Bauer — Dominican University DPT program 
• Arianna Medina — Pfizer
• Amanda Saab — Fairleigh Dickinson College of Pharmacy
• Gabrielle Schneider — New York University
• Linda Dantico — Pfizer; University of Florida, MSP in Pharmaceutical Sciences with a concentration in Forensic Science
• Naija Rodriguez — Vitalant 
• Shanna Wood — Mercy College PA program
• Eric Valdes — Temple University School of Dentistry
• Chet Kleynowski — TRADEBE, Lab chemist
• Jamie McGinn — Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine PA program
• Alina Panchychyn — MS in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pace University; Aurobindo Pharma USA, Inc.

What You’ll Learn

Throughout your biology program, you’ll develop extensive content knowledge, learn proper laboratory techniques, drastically improve your critical thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills, as well as:

• Use basic and advanced laboratory equipment
• Use relevant computer applications and information technology
• Design and conduct a scientific experiment to reach a logical conclusion
• Learn and work collaboratively
• Prepare and present scientific results to general audiences as well as to fellow scientists
• Promote science in the service of the larger community
• Have ownership of an authentic research project
• Get the chance to publish and contribute to the scientific community
• Use regular milestones to measure your progress
• Make a meaningful contribution to scientific progress

At Dominican University, you’ll pursue and publish new scientific knowledge through inquiry-based instruction and original research, gaining valuable transferable skills in both your biology major (or minor) courses and through your research experiences. As a result, our biology degree will ensure you’re well-qualified to pursue a wide range of careers and post-graduate fields of study.

Our programs are incredibly hands-on and will give you significant real-world skills that will set you apart from your competition. For example, we’ve set aside a plot of land on our campus for students to study. If you take courses in chemistry, ecology, botany, or general biology you’ll get to analyze the soil and conduct biological surveys of the plants, microbes, and other soil fauna. You’ll then amend the soil with compost and/or commercial fertilizers, collaborate with your fellow students to choose and transplant plants into the soil, conduct follow-up testing, and analyze the changes that result from your soil treatments and addition of plants. This project will give you valuable technical skills across a range of disciplines as well as help you build the vital collaboration (including cross-disciplinary collaboration) and communication skills that are so in demand in all industries.

As a Dominican University biology major, you’ll also be supported and encouraged to pursue a research internship. Our students have secured prestigious research internships at:

• Albert Einstein College of Medicine
• Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory 
• Johns Hopkins University
• New York University
• The Jackson Lab
• Clemson University
• University of Nevada Las Vegas
• Florida Atlantic University