After Kenyon

Neuroscience graduates are well prepared to enter competitive and rigorous graduate programs or research occupations in neuroscience, neurochemistry,
neurobiology, anatomy, physiology, physiological psychology, clinical psychology, behavioral science, the health sciences and more.

First Jobs

From professional careers to graduate studies to non-profit work, here is a look at how recent neuroscience graduates make their mark beyond the Hill. 

Anthony Amolo '17
Faculty, Berkshire School, Lagos, Nigeria

Kalkidan Aesged '17
Medical Student, OSU College of Medicine, Columbus, OH

Adama Berndt '17
Intramural Resident Training Award Fellow, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

Sarah Naguib '17
Doctoral Student in Neuroscience, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Natalie Plick '16
Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award recipient, National Institute on Aging (NIH), Baltimore, MD

Rim Yoseph '16
Graduate Fellow, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Stephanie Cordonnier '15
IRTA Fellow, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD

Busola Olukoya '15
Research assistant, Harvard Medical School

Allen Sanderlin '15
HHMI Research Technician, MIT, Cambridge, MA

Elena Schatell '15
Health Reform Research and  Advocacy Intern, National Alliance on Mental Illness, Arlington, VA

Daniel Akuma '14
Research assistant, Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, MD

Kelly M. Boland '14
Research assistant, Washington University-Saint Louis, Chesterfield, MO

Emily K. Rose '14
Health coach/AmeriCorps member, Camden Coalition Healthcare Providers, Camden, NJ

Rachel E. Cooper '13
Veterinary student, Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, North Grafton, MA

Kendra Lechtenberg ’13
National Science Foundation (NSF) graduate research fellow, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Katherine Powers '11
Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine

Chelsea Adams '10
Ph.D. in neuroscience, Mayo Clinic

Christian Hinderer '10 
M.D.-Ph.D. program, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Michael Karras '10
Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award, Laboratory for Behavioral Neuroscience, NIK, NIMH

Careers and Degrees

Christina Kucher '09
Psychiatric nurse practitioner, University of Pennsylvania

Nora Pencheva '09
Ph.D. in neuroscience, Rockefeller University

Emma K. Wampler '09
Laboratory manager, Johns Hopkins University

Lisa M. Carroll '07
Physician, University of North Carolina School of Medicine

Sarah Hillenbrand '07
Postbaccalaureate IRTA (2007-2009)
Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, NIH, NIMH
Ph.D. in neuroscience, University of California, Berkeley

John Steele '07
Ph.D. in  neurology, Mt. Sinai Medical School

Marissa Stearns '06
Ph.D. in neuroscience, Brandeis University

Michael Dash '06
Ph.D. in neuroscience, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Alaina Baker '05
Fulbright scholar in molecular neuroscience, Göttingen Germany, (2005-2006)
Ph.D. in neuroscience, Northwestern University
Post-doc, Washington University (St. Louis) researching Alzheimer’s Disease

Whitney Brown '04
DVM student in equine surgery, Auburn University Veterinary School

Gregory V. Carr '04
Ph.D. in Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania (2009)
IRTA fellow, National Institute of Mental Health

Heather Heerssen ’97
Senior medical writer, ApotheCom
Ph.D. in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School

Mark Walsh '96
Physician, Retina Associates Southwest; M.D. and Ph.D., Washington University Medical School

Gregory Hotsenpiller '95
Scientist,, Department of Neuroscience, Finch University of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School