Careers in Laboratory Animal Science: Taking the Roads Less Traveled

Abstract

One started as an academic philosopher and ended up as an architect for a key piece of federal animal welfare legislation and one of the world's foremost authorities on the topics of animal rights and biomedical research ethics. Another traveled from New England to San Francisco to Barbados to Africa and back, studying the behavior patterns of dozens of different species of nonhuman primates in order to better understand their social and environmental needs. Yet a third got her start wrangling swine at a research center in Minnesota, then rose through the ranks of AALAS to become the organization's most recently elected President.