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Considering a Career at an Independent Research Institution
Jan. 16, 2026—As a scientific researcher, you likely are familiar with what a career path would look like conducting research in academia, industry or government, but you may be less familiar with the wide variety of independent research institutes that exist and also employ PhD scientists at various career stages, including as postdoctoral fellows, staff scientists and...
ASPIRE’s Curated Career Resources: Consulting
Dec. 22, 2025—ASPIRE Resources: Beyond the Lab podcast series This podcast series has several informational interviews from Vanderbilt alumni who have careers in Consulting. https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/career-development/beyond-the-lab-see-listen/ Vanderbilt Resources: Career Center: Vandy in Business and Consulting Although primarily geared towards undergraduates, the Vanderbilt Career Center has compiled business and consulting resources that may be useful. https://www.vanderbilt.edu/career/discover-your-community-today/vandy-in-business-consulting/ https://cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-wpfsx/wp-content/uploads/sites/37/2025/08/Vandy-in-Business-Final-0825.pdf ...
ASPIRE’s Curated Career Resources: Teaching
Sep. 25, 2025—BRET ASPIRE Resources Path to Career blogs: Faculty Search: https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/career-development/path-to-career/faculty-job-search/ Skill Development: Teaching: https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/career-development/skill-development Office of Career Development Blog: https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/career-development/blog Search tags: Career Options: K-12 Teaching/Outreach, Tenure Track Teaching, Academia, Academic Search, Volunteer Opportunity ASPIRE Workshop on Preparing for a Faculty Career and Job Search: https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/career-development/aspire-workshop-on-preparing-for-a-faculty-career-and-job-search/ This ASPIRE workshop is hosted every year in August...
ASPIRE’s Curated Career Resources: Business and Entrepreneurship
Sep. 18, 2025—Campus Resources: Wond’ry: https://www.vanderbilt.edu/the-wondry/entrepreneurship/ Wond’ry Programming: Ideator, Builder, Founder programming From early-stage startups to fully-fledged technologies, the Entrepreneurship practice area at the Wond’ry offers resources for all faculty, students, staff, and alumni from Nashville-area colleges and universities who are interested in learning how to grow a venture from the ground up. ASPIRE to Innovate Postdoctoral...
ASPIRE’s Curated Career Resources: Patent Law or Tech Transfer
Sep. 9, 2025—Differences between Patent Agent and Patent Attorney Campus Resources Vanderbilt Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization (CTTC) internship Each Spring, the CTTC offers a paid internship for graduate students interested in learning more about technology transfer. Check out the link for more information and eligibility: https://cttc.co/internship-program Beyond the Lab podcast series This podcast series has...
ASPIRE’s Curated Career Resources: Medical Writing and Communication
Feb. 21, 2025—If you are interested in a career in writing or communications, having a portfolio of writing samples (in addition to your peer-reviewed journal articles) will be important, as will being able to showcase other ways you’ve been involved or gained experience. Take a look to see if any of these ideas might be helpful to...
ASPIRE’s Curated Career Resources: Data Science and Programming Resources
Feb. 14, 2025—Professional Societies/Organizations: Greater Nashville Technology Council: https://technologycouncil.com/ SciPy – get involved with the Python community (https://scipy.org/community/) and check out their annual conference (https://conference.scipy.org/) Twitter/X: @SciPy_team and @SciPyConf Campus Resources: Vanderbilt Data Science Institute: https://www.vanderbilt.edu/datascience/ Seminars series and workshops Join mailing list to stay informed: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSepIvOvAPUJ2UDAUvupDfms3AZwTth4v-T0vcviaA8DpHyo5g/viewform Vanderbilt Libraries https://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/digital-lab/events/ The Vanderbilt Libraries provides access to O’Reilly...
ASPIRE’s Curated Career Resources: Clinical Research
Feb. 5, 2025—ASPIRE’s Curated Career Resources: Clinical Research Professional Societies: ACRP (Assn of Clinical Research Professionals) (student membership $60) https://www.acrpnet.org/ Local Chapter: http://community.acrpnet.org/communities/community-home?CommunityKey=ed542d20-85c0-4d30-9720-4721a2b4a14a#_ga=1.182706337.600391592.1483993187 “Introduction to Clinical Research”- free 1-day program offered the day before the start of the annual conference– designed to provide students and postdocs with information about career opportunities in clinical research and local networking...
Beyond the Professoriate career and professional development resource- available to Vanderbilt trainees!
Aug. 23, 2024—What is Beyond the Professoriate? Beyond the Professorate offers an extensive range of resources to help PhDs graduate student and postdocs understand and evaluate career options at any stage of your career journey. They provide assessment tools to help identify your career options or if you are further along, they provide resources including writing your...