Professor Pop-Up: Composite Materials Engineering

If you want to make things, break things, and figure out how to improve them, you could turn that drive into a career as a composites engineer.  I became a professor of Composite Materials Engineering because it’s still a relatively new field and there are so many...

Professor Pop-Up: Criminal Justice

If you like understanding how the law intersects with real life, you could foster that interest into a career as a law enforcement or corrections officer or any of the many personnel in the Criminal Justice system.  After being a prosecuting attorney for 11 years, I...

Professor Pop-Up: Biochemistry

If you enjoy studying how everything around us is connected and how living things run, you could harness those passions into a career as a chemist.  I think the most meaningful connections a student can make during their college career come from watching their...

Professor Pop-Up: Sociology

If you like to people-watch and understand individuals’ stories and roles in society, you could foster those interests into a career as a sociologist.  I went to college thinking I’d become a high school math teacher, but an introductory sociology course instantly...

Professor Pop-Up: Athletic Training

Meet Dr. Brian Zeller, a professor in the Health, Exercise & Rehabilitation Sciences Department at Winona State University. He got into athletic training because he wanted to work in health care and be part of patients’ recovery journeys on a daily basis....