The Career Speaker Series

Sponsored by Business Management, SPDI, Public Health, Chemistry

NovoNordisk is a global healthcare company working to defeat diabetes and other serious chronic conditions. At its Lebanon, NH facility, the company produces a global supply of our hemophilia and growth hormone product lines, as well as next generation of cutting-edge medications. Come learn more about this company and opportunities available there.

Who should come? All students, all majors and years and especially students in SPDI, Chemistry, Biology and Computer Science. Faculty from all disciplines are welcome and urged to come.

Sponsored by: Mathematics, Biology, Business Management

Keene State alum Ron Boisvert (‘73) is the Chief of the Applied & Computational Mathematics Division at NIST and will be joining us to answer the question: What is it like to work in a research lab in the Federal government? NIST is part of the US Department of Commerce and is the national metrology institute for the U.S. Its mission is to advance the science of measurement in support of both commerce and industrial innovation. This work is quite varied, from helping to define the standard SI units (e.g., the second, meter, kilogram, …) to setting Federal standards for cryptography. Ron will describe the work of NIST and provide examples of how computer scientists and mathematicians contribute to it. In doing so he will provide a glimpse of what such staff members do each day, and what background and training is needed to work there. And, along the way you’ll learn why NIST sells peanut butter, bullets, dust, and urine!

Who should come? All students, all majors and years and especially students in natural sciences, Mathematics and Computer Science. Faculty from all disciplines are welcome and urged to come.