Strong mentorship has been linked to enhanced mentee productivity, self-efficacy, career satisfaction, and is an important predictor of the academic success of scientists in training.

Upcoming Trainings

Coming soon!

Several departments have trained facilitators within their department. Check with your department head to see if you can join their trainings.

Past Trainings

Tuesday, June 20, 2023

Mentors are role models, a resource, teachers, counselors and advocates.

Research mentoring for Faculty/Principal Investigators (Part 2)

 9:00am - 12:00pm
This session will explore more about mentorship: assessing understanding, fostering independence, promoting professional development, and articulating a mentoring philosophy.

 

Undergraduate Research Mentoring for Faculty

Monday, May 23 || 1:00 – 3:00 pm || Romney 236

Facilitated by Jennifer Brown, Associate Professor, Chemical & Biological Engineering and Nika Stoop, Program Lead – Research/Scholarship, Center for Faculty Excellence

**Last offered in May 2021 - Half of this training is similar to 2021 and half is new material.**

Looking for some ideas on how to best mentor undergraduate students in research? This two-hour session will go over principles for undergraduate mentoring: aligning expectations and assessing understanding. We will suggest some tools and practices to help you and your students navigate the mentor relationship.

If you have graduate students who will be mentoring this summer, please let them know about the following session:

Undergraduate Research Mentoring for Graduate Student Mentors

Tuesday, May 24 || 1:00 – 3:00 pm || Romney 236

Facilitated by Jennifer Brown, Associate Professor, Chemical & Biological Engineering and Dana Skorupa, Assistant Research Professor, Center for Biofilm Engineering/ Thermal Biology Institute

**Last offered in May 2021 - Half of this training is similar to 2021 and half is new material.**

Looking for some ideas on how to best mentor undergraduate students in research? This two-hour session will go over principles for undergraduate mentoring: aligning expectations and assessing understanding. We will suggest some tools and practices to help you and your students navigate the mentor relationship.