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STEM includes fields such as actuarial science, computer science, genetics, engineering, technology and more. Hamiltonians in this industry work at places such as Google, IBM, Bio-Rad Laboratories, AECOM, and more.
Scroll through the blog posts and stories below to learn more about Hamilton student and alumni experiences in this industry. Finally, meet with your career advisor and explore the Career Center curriculum to learn how to network with alumni to discuss your interests and learn more about their work.

STEM Blog

  • Jiong Chen ’10 graduated from Hamilton with majors in both mathematics and economics. He currently works as a senior data scientist at LinkedIn. In his Q&A, Chen details his typical work week as a data scientist, and offers advice to current undergraduate students interesting in pursuing a career in data science.

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  • Dr. Meagher’s main research interest is in ethics and social implications of human and pathogen genomics. Dr. Meagher graduated from Hamilton College, class of 2004, with a major in biology and minor in philosophy. She then completed a Ph.D. in philosophy at Michigan State University, focusing on ethics and public health. From 2012--2016 she worked as a senior policy and research analyst in ethics, science and technology policy for President Barack Obama’s advisory body, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. In 2018 she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in qualitative research methods at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Since joining Mayo Clinic as an assistant professor of biomedical ethics research in 2018, she has held the position of associate director of public engagement in which she leads a community engagement network for the Mayo Clinic Biobank. She is currently conducting studies on stakeholder attitudes toward the creation of a COVID-19 pandemic biobank, and ethical and social aspects of implementing microbial genetic technologies in antimicrobial stewardship contexts.

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  • Catherine Ryczek ’21 graduated from Hamilton with a major in physics and a minor in computer science. Currently a graduate student at CalTech, Catherine works on luminescent solar concentrations in the Atwater lab. These consist of quantum dots within a polymer waveguide and work to direct sunlight that is collected onto smaller solar cells. In this way, solar energy can be collected across a large area with less expensive materials and weight typically associated with solar cells. This has particularly exciting applications in space where the energy gain must be balanced against the cost required to send the device into orbit.

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  • Jake Lowy ‘19 graduated from Hamilton with a double major in biochemistry and molecular biology. He is currently a graduate student at Duke University, investigating the role of four host genes in granuloma epithelialization and Tb infection progression in the Tobin Lab.

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  • Dr. Joelle Corrigan graduated Hamilton as a physics major in 2016 and went on to get her Ph.D. in physics from the University of Wisconsin Madison in 2021. She currently works as a quantum computing measurement engineer. In this position, Dr. Corrigan focuses on electrically defined silicon quantum dots as a platform for quantum computing. Quantum computing measurement engineers hope to leverage Intel's experience in semiconductor processing to bring the field out of university labs and onto a much larger scale. While her work includes dealing with cryogenics, measurement electronics, and data analysis, Dr. Corrigan’s job is really just seeing the magic of quantum mechanics come to life as she watches electrons tunnel through barriers (particle equivalent of walking through walls) or be put into superposition states (not 0 or 1 but both).

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  • Erin Bryant graduated from Hamilton with a major in neuroscience and minors in German and creative writing. She also served as president of Minds for Change, which sought to destigmatize mental health on campus. Currently a research assistant, Erin investigates the role of molecular motor proteins in synaptic plasticity and memory storage. She works in Dr. Puthanveettil’s lab at the Scripps Research Institute.

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  • Bobby Cole graduated from Hamilton in 2006 with a major in math and a minor in English. He currently resides in Seacoast, N.H. with his wife Letty Bedard ’06 and their three children. He is the vice president of U.S. product design and modeling at Liberty Mutual. There, he leads a team of 100 actuaries, data scientists, and data engineers to develop pricing for insurance products based on historical data and a multitude of predictive modeling techniques. He spends most of his time outside of work loving life as a dad, and pretending to know more than he actually does about how to maintain the nearly 300-year-old home they live in.

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  • Lynne Degitz graduated magna cum laude from Hamilton in 1989 with anthropology and English literature double majors. While on the Hill, Degitz was a member of the Gender and Sexuality Union, International Cultural Association, and Center for Intersectional Feminism. After graduating from Hamilton, Lynne Degitz pursued a master’s degree in anthropology from UC Santa Barbara, graduating with high honors, and a Ph.D. from UNC-Chapel Hill in medical anthropology. She has since held roles in communications at UNC-Chapel Hill and US ITER/Oak Ridge National Laboratory. In her current role, as communications lead at US ITER, she works to advance the progress of fusion energy and nuclear solutions by combining her diverse range of academic interests.

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  • Peter Kazickas graduated from Hamilton in 2015 with a world politics major. Throughout his time at Hamilton, he remained busy, pursuing the many facets a liberal arts education has to offer. He was a two-year captain of the men’s varsity basketball team, taking his talents off the court to become a global ambassador for Hoops for Hope. For this work, he received recognition from the NABC Honors Court two years in a row and made the 2014 Allstate Good Works Team. While on the Hill, he was also a member of the Alpha Delta Phi (AD) fraternity, the Student Athletic Advisory Committee (SAAC), and WHCL College Radio. Since Hamilton, Kazickas created The Power of Basketball Program working with youth in Lithuania and has found himself in a multitude of tech and coding roles. Combining these interests of service and technology, Kazickas became the CEO of Uncommon.Org in 2017.

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  • Kristin Hughes graduated from Hamilton last spring as a member of the class of 2020. She majored in chemistry and minored in biology, graduating with honors. Throughout her time at Hamilton, she explored the field of research -- working in chemistry labs on campus and interning at the Jackson Laboratory and Pfizer focusing on biomedical research. Besides working in the lab, Kristin was an accomplished member of the women’s soccer team, part of the Career Center’s Connect Team, and tutor for the Quantitative & Symbolic Reasoning Center. She has since taken this passion for research to Boston University, where she is a first year chemistry Ph.D. Student.

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