Dr. Karen Stokes shares, "BRAID stands for Biomedical Research and Industry Day. The idea is, is to bring students and trainees and faculty from our region, from all the different colleges here to one place and discuss the opportunities that are available to science graduates in all the different fields that they may not have thought of. We have brought in someone with an industry background from the patent side as there's a lot of call for science expertise in that area, and also someone from the American Heart Association to talk a little bit about how they went from a PhD in academia and hopped over into a nonprofit."
"Panelists will discuss how they got into their careers from completing a science degree, what skills they gained from their science degree, and what other things they've learned along the way. In addition, we have a networking lunch so the students and trainees can sit with the panelists and speakers over lunch and chat with them and learn a little bit more about their careers. Then we have a poster session with 71 posters this year and we are judging only the students, not the faculty. There's only a few faculty posters, but we have students from high school all the way to graduate level, as well as some postdocs."
