<p>BTW since the OP was wondering how to put her interests to work in a career field, another industry area occured to me -- that of food and agriculture. Genetically modified foods are in the pipeline, and you could work in various positions in the industry from actually doing the science to working with regulatory agencies. Or you could work for the regulatory agencies or legislative bodies that set the rules. Agriculture as a whole has many areas outside of the genetically-modified foods that require knowledge of math and science, and there is plenty of government oversight/interaction. Food producers also use science in developing their products and in working with regulatory agencies. If you want to emphasize people more in your career, think about nutrition where you could be working for a government body involved with food programs. Emphasize the math a bit more and your doing epidemology studying what people eat and looking for links to ailments or developing healthy eating guidelines. In the food & ag area, just like in that of biotech, there are really boundless opportunities available. </p>
<p>Cornell, BTW, is one institution with an excellent nutrition program (see <a href="http://www.nutrition.cornell.edu/about.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.nutrition.cornell.edu/about.html</a>) They also have a Food & Nutrition Policy Program <a href="http://www.he.cornell.edu/cfnpp/%5B/url%5D">http://www.he.cornell.edu/cfnpp/</a></p>