The MS degree in Applied Biology addresses the growing need for a technologically trained workforce with special skills in laboratory, biotechnology and environmental science. The curriculum emphasizes skills development in a research setting and relates practical experiences to a strong background in theory. An optional thesis and an accelerated “4+1” MS option for advanced undergraduates are included for those students who plan to continue their post-graduate studies. For information please contact the Biology Graduate Program Director.

After graduation I accepted a commission in the Army and retired as a Colonel in Military Intelligence in 2009. Along the way, I earned a Master of Science in Educational Leadership and a Master of Strategic Studies. My Wife graduated from SU in 1984 with a BS in Nursing and our daughter will be visiting Salisbury University this summer as she decides where she'd like to attend college. Graduated from University of South Florida with my M.A.T. in Science Education and certified to teach Biology in grades 6-12. Due to a teacher hiring freeze, got hired back as a 911 Dispatcher and now a Ed.D. student in Higher Education and Adult Learning via Walden University. Should be graduating Jan 2013. After graduation in 1981 I went to grad school for a few years and then started working in the Microbiology Lab at Bristol Myers in Syracuse NY in 1983. We moved to Connecticut in 1986. I moved into Clinical Research in the infectious disease group in '87 and left for GlaxoSmithkline (Glaxo) in 1994. I am now Director of Respiratory clinical Research and study the effect of asthma and COPD medications. I worked in Madison, WI as a Patent Agent (2008). I am now back on the east coast and working in the Technology Transfer department at The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine. I have been here for nearly two years and this has been by far the most rewarding experience, as our department patents and commercializes inventions coming out of the DoD research university, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. I am also pursuing a M.S. degree at Johns Hopkins University in Biotechnology. After leaving, then SSU, I worked 8 years in a biological science lab for the USDA. There I helped to support research in parasitology working primarily with large farm animals that entered the retail food market, and help train packing plant employees to ensure an export of horse meat to the EU. I received my M.S. in Environmental Management in '05 and my M.A.T. in Teaching in '07. I have been working in a high needs Baltimore County school since receiving my M.A.T as a middle school science teacher. I credit some of my awesome SSU Biology teachers for enhancing my passion for the sciences. I especially credit Dr. Chris Briand, who was such a positive influence during my time at SSU. Soon after graduation, spend 12 years in U.S.A.F. as a firefighter and 911 Dispatcher. After separating, was hired as a Dispatcher for a military base fire department. During those 5 years, I worked on and finally graduated with my M.A.T. in Science Education from the University of South Florida in 2010. Due to teacher cut backs, decided and became a student in Ed.D. program in Higher Education and Adult Learning via Walden University. I have a job with Verizon as a sales consultant. Not really in the science field but they are paying for me to go to graduate school online and I'm getting some sales experience under my belt before I try to go into the competitive field of pharmaceutical sales (and back into the field of science where my interests are). I went to New York Chiropractic College graduated in 2009. I am now a doctor of chiropractic and just opened up my own practice last month in Salisbury! After graduating from Salisbury University, I continued on to graduate school and I am currently working toward my Masters of Science in Biotechnology at Johns Hopkins University. I have been working for the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene as a Public Health Laboratory Scientist in Baltimore. They have entry level positions with great benefits and many holidays. I highly recommend looking here after graduation, go to www.maryland.gov under state jobs for more information. I am currently an Emergent Infectious Disease Fellow with the Association of Public Health Labs and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. I am working at the State Hygienic Lab at the University of Iowa. I am doing training rotations through virology, food-borne disease, environmental monitoring and serology. After graduation, I worked for the Florida Marine Research Institute in St. Petersburg, FL before returning to Maryland in 2000 to teach high school science in Columbia. In 2003 I left to pursue a Master of Public Administration degree with concentrations in Environmental Policy and Coastal Town Management at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington. It is a great school in a wonderful location and I urge SU grads to look at it if they are interested in continuing their education. They also have a great Marine Science program. After graduating in 2005, I was accepted into the PhD program in the school of Environment and Natural Resources at The Ohio State University. My dissertation targets coastal watershed restoration and management using the National Estuary Program sites in Tampa and Sarasota, FL. I plan to finish and graduate this fall. After graduating from SSU in 1998, I completed a Ph.D. from the Temple University Department of Pharmacology. I studied G protein-coupled receptor signaling events that occur during platelet activation. My post-doctoral research was done at the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland. I focused on RNAi techniques to decipher G protein signaling events in cancer. In the last year, I became a Pharmacologist in the Oncology division of the Food and Drug Administration. I evaluate in vitro and in vivo pharmacology and toxicology data that are required of pharmaceuticals as they progress from first-in-man trials through final drug approval. These non-clinical data identify drug-related toxicities in target organs, identify a safe starting dose in initial clinical trial, and determine proper monitoring in the trials. I am a graduate student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the department of Microbiology. I work in a bioinformatics lab with a focus on viral evolution. I am also a co-chair for UAB's Industry Roundtable, it's a student organization, and we try to teach other students about "alternative" scientific careers (not trying to get tenure in academia). I hike often, I live with several fish (including GloFish!), 2 lizards, a snake, and my husband. After graduation, I conducted a research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health. During that time, I submitted my medical school applications and went on interviews. Now, I am a medical student at Georgetown University School of Medicine, class of 2013. I am proud to be an alumnus of Salisbury University. It has prepared me well for my endeavor to become a physician! I've moved to NJ and currently work as a Research Biochemist at Merck (Rahway, NJ). I work in the Clinical Development Laboratory, and our main focus is the development and validation of esoteric assays to measure pharmacodynamic biomarkers for clinical trials (phase 1 and 2a). After graduating SU in 2002, I worked for Johns Hopkins Dept of Pathology at the medical campus in Baltimore before moving on to a career with Merck. My experience at SU, including my independent research with Dr. Kim Hunter (crab genetics), has prepared me well for a career in science/biotech. I still support the SU soccer team and try to make it back to Salisbury for the annual alumni game and tour the campus to see if I can find any faculty hanging around. I must say that I am a bit jealous of the new science facilities since I've graduated. I have begun working at the Medical Biotechnology Center at the University of Maryland Baltimore as a research assistant for neurodegenerative diseases. We study the role of protein misfolding, and the critical role of the ubiquitin-proteasome system in neurodegenerative disease. I am also practicing RNAi in C. elegans, and glutathione S-transferase techniques, among others. After graduating from SU in 2007, I did a one year post-bac at the National Cancer Institute looking at meiotic recombination in Dr. Michael Lichten's lab. I have recently finished my 1st year as a PhD student at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and I am working on my dissertation in the Pharmacology department under Dr. Sean Taverna focusing on post-translational modifications of histones in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.