Successful Graduates
More than two-thirds of Coe's biology graduates each year go on to graduate and medical schools. Others have gone into careers as zoologists, genetic counselors, industrial research scientists, environmental analysts and high school biology teachers. Here are some examples of what Coe biology graduates have accomplished:
- Jeff Nekola (biology), Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Assistant Professor of Biology at University of Wisconsin Green Bay
- Marianne Wellington (biology), staff member, International Crane Foundation, Baraboo, WI
- Todd Bjur (biology), D.D.S. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, dental officer, U.S. Navy
- Michael Faust (biology and general science), M.D., obstetrician, Mason City, IA
- Mark R. Wiesner (biology) Ph.D. Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Assistant Professor at Rice University
- Nedra Foster Hecker (biology), Chief of Mammology at the National Aquarium in Baltimore, MD
- Johanna Josephson Abernathy (biology), M.D., obstetrician/gynecologist in Cedar Rapids, IA
- Alycia Baybayan Marler (biology and general science), M.S., Pharmaceutical Consultant for Smith Kline Beecham
- Elizabeth Cerny (biology), scientific assistant at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois
- Ryan Bomgarden (biology), Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University in Molecular Pharmacology
