Career Focus
Choosing a Career at a National Lab
Physics or engineering graduate students often see only two choices for their career paths—academia in one direction and industry in the other. However, there’s a third option: a national laboratory. Tyler Ralston talks about his experience working for a national lab and the unique opportunities that this career choice provides.
NIST postdoctoral researcher Lucile Teague inserts a sample into a scanning tunneling microscope to study the electrical behavior of organic molecules on a gold surface.
This time of year many new physics graduates are choosing their niche in the working world—or at least giving it some serious thought. A national lab is an option that is often overlooked.
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