Biological Sciences Alumni

Barbie Laderman-Jones has served in leadership positions at multiple animal shelters—non-profit organizations that provide at-risk animals with lasting and loving homes—in California. She is also a published scholar in her field. While her path was different than what she envisioned while she was a Husky (she graduated in 1992 with her BS in Biological Sciences and a certificate in secondary education), Laderman-Jones . . .

Jim Brodeur, a retired physician and long-time financial supporter of Michigan Tech, figures he got twenty-seven good reasons to help the institution. That's the number of people in his family who have attended Tech over five generations, beginning with one of his grandfathers in 1897. Tech has been an important part of our lives, and we want to stay connected and help out, he says. He was active as a student and has . . .

It was at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota that Emily Shearier fell in love with research. Initially on track for a medical career, the New London, Wisconsin, native took advantage of the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program in her third year studying biology at Michigan Tech. For Shearier, the program helped her realize that the thrill of discovery and problem solving she was experiencing through . . .