Entering the Ranks

What kinds of jobs do College of Agricultural and Life Sciences graduates get? We asked our students graduating with bachelor's,  master's, and Ph.D. degrees this May and August where they'll go next. Here's what they shared with us.

Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology

Abby VanderPlaat '06, BS, Pendleton, OR

Loan officer trainee, Northwest Farm Credit Services, Burlington, WA

Animal and Veterinary Science

Rebecca Hoover '06, BS, Milwaukie, OR

Education presenter at Walt Disney World, Orlando, FL

Joshua Peak '06, BS, Boise

Assistant manager, Longview Dairy, Jerome

Hailey Rutherford '06, BS, British Columbia

River and Lazy L Ranches, Merritt, B.C. (family ranch)

Jordan Stebbins '06, BS, Rainier, OR

Dairy herdsman, UI, Moscow

Biological and Agricultural Engineering

Philip Kaufman '06, BS, Lewiston

Seed production management trainee, Monsanto, Othello, WA

Brian Rust '06, BS, Heppner, OR

Inside sales, Wilbur-Ellis Co., Genesee

Family & Consumer Sciences

Joylynn Alicie Haffner '06, BS, Boise

Family literacy and office assistant, Learning Lab Inc., Boise

Food Science and Toxicology

Christy Maurin '06, MS, Moscow

Quality control supervisor, Safeway Inc., Beverage, Denver, CO

Angie Spears '06, BS, Boise

Quality assurance technologist, Medallion Foods, Tacoma, WA

Brenda Toevs '06 MA, Aberdeen
Teaching position at Stonewall Jackson High School in Manassas Park, VA.

Plant, Soil, and Entomological Sciences

Libby Driebergen '06, BS, Boise

Field/lab tech helping Ph.D. student Ryan Hanavan with study of pea leaf weevil and some predatory beetles that might interact.

Gordon Toevs '06, PhD, Aberdeen

Presidential management fellow, policy analyst (post-doc), Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Washington D.C.