AfterCollege and PhD Comics Partner to Bring Jobs to Graduate Students in Academia

Market Wire, April, 2008

AfterCollege, Inc., the largest career network for college students and alumni, and Piled Higher and Deeper (PhD) Comics, the largest comic publication for graduate students, today announced a partnership that will bring jobs from employers on the AfterCollege network to Master's and PhD students who subscribe to PhD Comics. PhD publishes a nationally syndicated comic strip with a readership of more than 2,800,000 annually.

The new site, labeled "Grad Student Jobs" will be powered by AfterCollege and located at http://www.phdcomics.com/jobs/ . Employers on the AfterCollege network will be able to reach a large audience of Master's students, PhDs and Post-Docs in disciplines such as engineering, life sciences and finance. At the same time, the new site will allow universities to post their post-doctorate, faculty and research positions and to distribute these opportunities to other universities in the AfterCollege network.

"Our partnership with AfterCollege gives our audience an additional resource for them to evaluate their options as they embark on their careers, whether it's in academia or in industry," said Jorge Cham, author of PhD Comics. "We chose AfterCollege because of its unique approach to online recruiting and its reputation of working with faculty and academic departments."

"We are excited to be working with PhD Comics," said Roberto Angulo, CEO of AfterCollege. "PhD Comics is one of the largest student publications in the country, and enjoys a tremendous following among the graduate community. We look forward to delivering relevant, high quality opportunities from both industry and academia to this audience of over-achievers."

About PhD Comics

"Piled Higher and Deeper" (PhD) is the comic strip about life (or the lack thereof) in academia, reaching over 2,800,000 readers annually at more than 1,000 universities worldwide. "Piled Higher and Deeper" the comic strip, has appeared in the Stanford, MIT, Carnegie Mellon University and Caltech newspapers. The strip has appeared or been featured in the journal Nature, the Chronicle of Higher Education, IEEE Potentials magazine, Math Horizons magazine, Stanford Magazine and Canada's The Peer Review magazine among others, and has been featured by USA Today's and The Washington Post's websites. PhD was started by Jorge Cham while he was a PhD student at Stanford University, and continued later when he was a full-time Instructor and researcher at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Today, PhD is one of the largest comic strip publications among the graduate student population in the United States and abroad.

About AfterCollege

Founded in 1999, AfterCollege, Inc. ( www.aftercollege.com ) is the nation's largest web-based employment network for college students and alumni. AfterCollege provides employers with direct access to students through an exclusive network of over 1,600 academic departments and student groups as well as a proprietary database of more than 19,500 faculty, and student group contacts at the nation's top universities. Its proprietary network and job distribution technology translate into substantive job content for job seekers and into more qualified applicants for employers. AfterCollege's unique approach is patented under U.S. Patent Number 7,213,019. AfterCollege, Inc. is based in San Francisco, Calif. AfterCollege and related logos are registered trademarks of AfterCollege, Inc.

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Media Contacts: Jorge Cham Piled Higher and Deeper (310) 918-2459 Email Contact Mike Fernald AfterCollege, Inc. (415) 263-1300 x 100 Email Contact