Resources Available Through the
Biology Undergraduate Affairs Office


Counseling and Advising
Phone: 863-3133 or Email:
Marjorie_Thompson@brown.edu

Concentration Programs and Advising

  • Information to help you decide between AB or ScB
  • Advice on when and how to declare your program

Course Information/Choices

  • Designing your academic experience
  • Fitting in a semester abroad
  • What classes to take and when

Research Opportunities

Extracurricular Volunteer Activities

Biology Internship Opportunities

Summer Jobs in BioMed at Brown

  • Paid and Volunteer: A collection of positions with Brown faculty, campus and hospital-based, is compiled each spring semester and is available in our office for review.

Time Away from Brown (academic semester or year)

Dean Thompson counsels on:
  • U.S. versus abroad
  • scheduling and planning; all transfer course approvals.

Year-Off or Post-Graduate: What to do?

  • Help on how to find jobs, internships, courses, and activities
  • Consultation on resume preparation and job search strategies

Graduate School in the Biological Sciences

  • A collection of announcements and bulletins, cross-referenced by specialty and university. 
  • A publication, How to go to Graduate School in Biology, is available in our office.
  • Individual counseling

Career Paths

  • Pre-Med, or Pre-Switch? You can plan for your best with the help of The Step-by-Step, Do-it-Yourself Job Search Workbook.  It features sample job search scenarios, resume preparation, cover letter models, and an extensive bibliography of employer directories. 
  • Individual counseling

Annual Report of Biology Undergraduate Affairs
2008-09