Paleontology Alumni Spotlights
Click on each graduate’s name below to view their full profile and learn more about how Carthage prepared them for their career.
Brady Holbach
Class Year: ’20
Majors: Biology — Paleontology Track, Geoscience
Current Hometown: Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin
Job:
Fossil Preparator at the Dinosaur Discovery Museum
“I enjoy simply working in the lab and seeing a dirty, barely recognizable fossil be turned into a clean, pristine piece of bone that researchers can better learn and study from.”
Amelia R. Zietlow
Class Year: ’20
Majors: Biology — Paleontology Track
Current Hometown: New York City, New York
Job:
Comparative Biology PhD Candidate at the Richard Gilder Graduate School, American Museum of Natural History
“I enjoy getting to play with super cool fossils of real-life sea serpents and discover new things about them.”
Steve Hobe
Class Year: ’15
Majors: Biology — Paleontology Track, Musical Theatre
Current Hometown: Chicago, Illinois
Job:
Senior Coordinator of Education at Adler Planetarium and Supplemental Chorister at Lyric Opera of Chicago
“When I learned that I could dig, prepare, and study fossil bones in a lab; hone my performance craft; and play hockey all close to home, attending Carthage was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up.”