Research & Innovation

The desire to dig more deeply, understand why, connect dots, understand taxonomy, journey to the core of knowledge, profoundly improve and break ground through automation, animation, systems design, technical innovation, tell stories from data, and detailed study of all types is the broad brush stroke of the Reedies who influence the Scientific Research and Innovation community.

Explore Your Purpose

There are various ways for you to get to know your community of purpose. Learn more about what your next step could be in Research and Innovation!

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Where do Reedies go?

Your education at has prepared you for many opportunities, take a look at what other Reedies within your community of purpose have gone on to do with their degree!

Entry Level Roles

Laboratory Assistant, XPLANT Laboratory
Research Associate, McCullough Research
Process Engineering Technician, Maxim Integrated
Machine Learning Engineer, Optfit LLC
Impact Analyst, Amplify
Senior Software Development Engineer, Cascade Microtech
Quality Assurance, Marketo
Instructional Designer, Handcrafted Learning
Post-Bacc Physics Researcher, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Extraction Technician, ChemHistory
Junior Account Manager, MDHQ
Director of Operations & Research, Switchboard
Research Assistant and Science Planner, Pennsylvania State University Dept. of Astrophysics under NASA contract
Educational Technology Support Specialist, Northwest Academy
CSR/Product, ShiftWise
Research Coordinator, Amazon
Assistant Staff Researcher, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Community Manager, Basis Technology
Junior Research Engineer, Otherlab
Graduate Non-Technical Intern: Operations, Intel
Research Assistant with Cadmus Group (utilities)
MDHQ, software/tech industry, junior account manager, Portland, OR
MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Cybersecurity, Assistant Staff Researcher, Boston, MA
MD HQ, Medical Software Company, Junior Developer, Portland OR

Grad School Destinations

University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK - MA in Math
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland - MSc in Physics
University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO - PhD in Physics
University of Massachusets Amherst, Amherst, MA - PhD in Physics
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR - PhD in Math
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA - Molecular and Cell Biology
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
University of New Mexico, Alburqueque, NM - PhD in Physics
Universite Paris 13, Villetaneuse, France - MA in Math
University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA - PhD in Chemistry
University of Washington Seattle, Seattle, WA - MA in Math
University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand - MS in Mathematics
University of Cambridge, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, UK - PhD in Physics
University of Cambridge, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge, UK - MA in Theoretical Physics
University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, - PhD in Mathematics

Alumni are or have been

CEO and Founder, Apple
Founder, Norton Computing
Founder, Tektronix
Co-founder, Wikipedia
CTO, Wayfair
Satellite Systems Project Manager, Boeing
Senior Chemist, AMPEX Corp.
President/CEO, REM Chemicals INC.
President, Lunar Software
Architect 1, Getty Images
Research Coordinator, New York Center for Agricultural Medicine and Health
Geologist, ARCO Chemical Company
Senior Scientist, Thermo Fisher Scientific

Resources & Information

Joining an assosication, reaching out to Reed alumni, and reviewing databases are great ways to develop a network within your community of purpose.

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