The Class Notes section of the June ’10 Reed Magazine contained an entry from Julia Robinson ’06. In that note, she described her post-PhD plans as “anything-but-chemistry”. Apparently the tide has turned. In two recent emails, Julia passed this along:
I just completed my Ph.D. at MIT, working on strange pericyclic reactions, and I’ve moved to NYC, where my husband works as a patent agent. I’ve taken a teaching position at the Bard High School Early College in Queens, where I will be a “Professor of Chemistry” teaching college-level organic chemistry and high-school level general chemistry.
(Editor’s note: Julia was already an accomplished lab instructor by the time she graduated from Reed, having spent two full years steering dozens o chem lab students to success.)