Software Site Reliability Engineer, Google, Portland, Or. If you Google the best companies at which to work, you’ll find Google. Google “Jonathon Blumenthal” and you’ll also find Google, where he has worked for the past three and a half years. Blumenthal is with Google’s Emerging Markets team, bringing products and services to countries with far…

Director of History and Research, Wilson History and Research Center, Little Rock, Ark. Dan Roberts is history’s muse: Dan Roberts’ love of history was practically pre-destined by his hometown. He grew up in South Portland, Maine, on a coastline dotted with old fortresses, and near the Portland Harbor shipyard where workers flocked to build the…

Ph.D. student in Holocaust and genocide studies at Clark But what about law school? Like college students through the ages, Sara Brown was asked that question just after telling her mother that she’d decided to switch her major from pre-law to government and international relations with a concentration in Holocaust and genocide studies. After taking…

Periodontal student Harvard Dental School, Boston Harrison Mackler cut his teeth in a London dentistry internship, where his research was quite literally bone deep. While studying abroad on Clark’s London Internship Program his junior year, Mackler worked at King’s College’s London Dental Institute, and began learning about tissue engineering. “By combining stem cells and growth…

Bacteriologist, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Jamaica Plain Most people run the other way when they hear “West Nile” or “H1N1.” Not Erika LeClair. She thrives on her proximity to these potentially deadly viruses. LeClair is a bacteriologist in the Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s State Laboratory Institute in Jamaica…

International Fellow, PeacePlayers International, Cyprus “Anyone who ever got me a job was a Clark grad.” Gunnar Hagstrom chuckles when he says this, but not because it isn’t true. The former Clark basketball and baseball player is speaking by phone from the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, where he works with PeacePlayers International, an organization that…

Teacher, University Park Campus School, Worcester Meghan Rosa’s mother is a high school teacher in Attleboro, Mass., and three of her star students went on to the same school: Clark University. “She thought there must be something magic about Clark for attracting these three seemingly different but equally thoughtful and original students, so she encouraged me…

Second-year student, Northeastern University School of Law, Boston When Roderick Ireland, Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court in Massachusetts, issues an opinion, he does so with the support of a staff that conducts deep research into the surrounding case law and helps the judge shape his final document. Janette Ekanem is a valued member…

Project assistant, Balkan Trust for Democracy, Serbia Bridget T. Millman wrapped up her bachelor’s degree when the U.S. economy was poised for the Great Recession, a time when newly minted graduates around the country were struggling to find employment. Nonetheless, Millman, who double-majored in philosophy and international development and social change, has managed during these tough…