AFTER high sChOOL
Going
Above and
Beyond
I
think knowledge is a reward in itself,”
says Arland Alberts, an instructional
coNTiNUiNG yoUr eDUcaTioN after high
laboratory supervisor in the department
school is vital for success in science, Technology,
of biology at the University of North Texas.
That said, Alberts believes that more
engineering & mathematics.
education after high school is also
important for very practical reasons: ensure a better understanding of both Salinas adds that the college workload is
it is the main road to success in careers scientific theory and field experience and greater than in most high schools. “Some
in Science, Technology, Engineering how they rely on one another.” of my college friends say, ‘I didn’t do any
& Mathematics. work my senior year of high school.’” At
“When you pursue science,” she says, scientific studies Olin, Salinas says, “that would get you in
“you definitely want to go all the way to If you choose the four-year college route, trouble fast.”
a master’s or a doctoral degree. This will be prepared to study harder and longer Once you leave high school, there are
than in high school, says Benjamin Salinas, plenty of opportunities for first-rate four-
who attended the Science Academy of year college instruction in Texas. Rice
South Texas in Mercedes (see page 13) University, the University of Texas
and is now an engineering student at in Austin, and Texas A&M at College
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Station, for example, have been ranked
in Needham, Massachusetts. among the top 100 universities in the
“In terms of the technical skills I learned world. Rice placed 17th among colleges in
in high school compared to the skills I’m America in the latest listing by U.S. News
learning now, the classes I’m taking now & World Report. The magazine puts UT
are much more in depth,” Salinas says. “We Austin’s graduate program in engineering
do more working on projects as teams in among the top 20 nationwide and its
college than in high school, partly because graduate program in earth sciences in
that’s the environment Olin has created.” the top 10.
Young Texas-based cHemIcal
researcHers are elIgIble To wIn THe welcH
foundaTIon’s $100,000 Hackerman award.
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