Welcome to the STEM Careers cabinet
 

Checking out companies - getting the inside scoop on jobs, companies, and seeing how you stack up

Glass Door

Career Bliss

O*Net Online

MyNextMove

American Business Journals (portal through Career Services, net ID required)

Focus2 (Focus2 first helps students find out more about where they are in the career decision-making process. Other assessments build on this knowledge, addressing students’ interests, skills, values, personality, and leisure time. Your responses generate specific career possibilities, which you can research more fully within the site’s impressive database of occupational information. Portal through Career Services, net ID required.)

The Medical Careers Cabinet - is there a doctor in the house?

Websites:
AspiringDocs.org
Doctors' Diaries - PBS online video series, contemporary physician profiles
Interacting with the Medical Humanities  - exercises in patient care and ethics
31 Questions I Wish I Had Asked During My Medical School Interview
The Student Doctor Network - pre-health professional forums, articles, advice in real time
MDApplicants.com - medical school forum, school & student profile search
Radio Rounds - listening to medicine
Texas Student Doctors Newsletters - up to date news for medical (or aspiring medical) students in the state of Texas
Explore health and science careers: LifeWorks career exploration site from the National Institutes of Health
TEDMED - From the highly popular TED talks, TEDMED is a community of leaders and innovators who are passionate about imagining the future of health and medicine
National Health Service Corps

Journals:
JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association (via Alkek Library)
New England Journal of Medicine
Academic Medicine - journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
AMA Virtual Mentor - American Medical Association Journal of Ethics

Books:

The House of God (a medical school classic!) - Samuel Shem
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down - Anne Fadiman
Anatomy of an Illness - Norman Cousins
How Doctors Think - Jerome Groopman
Complications - Atul Gawande
Better - Atul Gawande
Mountains Beyond Mountains - Tracy Kidder
Another Day in the Frontal Lobe - Katrina Firlik
 

Scholarships for students interested in the health professions: 

• Auxiliary to the National Medical Association
• Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc.
• Jackie Robinson Foundation
• Tom Joyner Foundation
• Tavis Smiley Foundation
• Thurgood Marshall College Fund
• UNCF
• National Association of Black Nurses
• American Indian College Fund
• Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund
• Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute
• Hispanic Association of Colleges & Universities
• Hispanic College Fund
• Hispanic Scholarship Fund
• Hispanic Women's Network of Texas
• National Association of Hispanic Nurses
• National Hispanic Health Foundation
• National Medical Fellowships, Inc. 

The Chemistry & Biochemistry Cabinet:

What can I do with a major in chemistry?

ChemDex - The Sheffield Chemdex: the directory of chemistry on the WWW since 1993

ChemFinder.com - ChemFinder has been providing free chemical searching to hundreds of thousands of scientists since 1995. This free database includes: Chemical Structures 2D structures & 3D models. Physical Properties MP, BP, CAS RN, and more links to other websites with information about your compound.

ChemID Plus - Database of over 380,000 chemicals, synonyms, structures, regulatory list information, and links to other databases

The Computer Science Cabinet:

What can I do with a major in computer science?

The Engineering & Engineering Technology Cabinet:

IEEE Spectrum - inside technology and engineering journal

National Society of Professional Engineers

Society for Women in Engineering

The Mathematics Cabinet:

What can I do with a major in mathematics?

The Physics Cabinet:

What can I do with a major in physics?