Career Advising Events & Resources
The physics department hosts several career events during the academic year. In addition, there are career events hosted by the University. To stay up to date on university-wide career events, make sure to sign up for Handshake. For department events, see schedule below, and make sure to follow us on social media for reminders!
Spring 2025 Career Events:
Tuesday, January 21, 2025 – Olin 105, 12:15 pm Meet and Greet with Dr. Robert Hurt, Visualization Scientist for NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope project, California Institute of Technology
Thursday, March 6, 2025 – Olin 105, 12:15 pm Meet and Greet with Dr. Mark Roberson, President, Goldfinch Sensor Technologies and Analytics LLC
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You can also check out Career Resources provided by Physics Today.
Past Career Events
Thursday, October 10, 2024 – Olin Lounge, Noon Meet and Greet with Dr. Leo Ding, Wake Forest alumnus, lead proton physicist at Corewell Health, and associate professor at William Beaumont School of Medicine
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 – Olin 105, 5:00 pm Grad School Ready: Tips, Advice, and Application Feedback with Alejandro Cardenas-Avendano
March 7, 2024 – Olin 105, 12pm – Physics Career Meet and Greet – Dr. Robert Maher, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Montana State University
February 21, 2024 – Olin 102, 12 pm – Physics Career Meet and Greet – Dr. Andrea Belanger, Associate Director, Precision Medicine External Innovation and WFU Physics Alum
November 17, 2023 – Olin 105, 12 pm – Physics Career Event – Dr. James (Chen) Liu
October 26, 2023 – Olin 105, 12 pm – Pizza with Dr. Katelyn Goetz and Dr. Alex Taylor, WFU Physics Alums
October 5, 2023 – Olin 105, 12pm – Pizza with Jessica I. W. Morgan, UPenn Professor and WFU Physics Alum
September 4, 2023 – Olin 105, 1:30pm – Physics Career Coffee Chat with Dr. Salman Azhar
April 7, 2023 – 11:00 AM in Olin 105 — Dr. Yueping Zeng Talks Career and Internship Opportunity at Honeywell International
February 28, 2023 – 5:00 PM in Olin 107 — Physics Career Development Seminar
January 27, 2023: 11:30 AM in Olin 105 — Robby Bradford, WFU Physics alumnus, talks Device and Electronics Opportunity at Lockheed Martin