CIMER is delighted to announce the publication of Utilizing Mentorship Education to Promote a Culturally Responsive Research Training Environment in the Biomedical Sciences featuring CIMER’s Angela Byars-Winston, Fátima Sancheznieto, and Christine Pfund. Click here to check out the article
New episode of NAE’s Diversity Dialogues
Episode 4 of NAE’s Diversity Dialogues podcast is out now! This episode explores how building #mentorship into academic and professional systems can increase #equity in #engineering. Listen here: https://ow.ly/Vwp550SqmPx
NAE member and host Wanda Sigur speaks with Angela Byars-Winston and NAE member Percy Pierre about their mentoring experiences, and how to encourage mentors and mentees alike in engineering.
Publication Alert!
We are delighted to announce the publication of an article titled “A Randomized Controlled Trial of an Intervention to Increase Cultural Diversity Awareness of Research Mentors of Undergraduate Students” The article sheds light on the significance of providing mentors with training in cultural awareness and sensitivity to enhance the mentoring experience for young scientists. By fostering an inclusive and supportive environment, this research offers valuable insights into empowering the next generation of scientists. Read the full article on Science.org to uncover the compelling findings and implications for scientific mentorship.
Thriving or Burn Out in Mentoring, Pastoring, Service & Vocation – Part 1 w/ Christine Pfund
Listen to CIMER’s Dr. Christine Pfund on Nii Addy’s latest podcast episode on thriving or burnout in mentoring and more. You can listen or watch on @AddyHour on Youtube or at AddyHour.com
CIMER Leader Helps Organize, Present National Mentoring Workshop for Research Universities, Funders, Associations
Read the exciting article featuring CIMER’s Melissa McDaniels here
New Publication! Comparing F2F and Synchronous Online Mentor Training Outcomes
CIMER is keeping busy with all of these new publications! The latest published on September 16, 2022, in CBE – Life Sciences Education investigates if training modality affects mentor training outcome. Read the article here
Enhancing Research Mentors’ Cultural Awareness in STEM: A Mentor Training Intervention
This past May a journal article was published in collaboration with Christine Pfund, Angela Byars-Winston, and Sherilynn Black about enhancing mentors’ cultural awareness in STEM. Read the article here
Don’t Let Mentoring Burn You Out
CIMER is hard at work! An article came out last month in collaboration with Christine Pfund about mentoring burnout.
Summary: Mentoring is undoubtedly a high-impact and high-stakes relationship. Mentors give their time, attention, and resources to develop others. Usually a volunteer activity, mentorship goes above and beyond a person’s formal job requirements. But when a mentor is well-intended but too depleted to deliver essential mentor functions as a consequence of burnout, the result is marginal mentoring: dysfunctional or disengaged mentoring that is no longer of value. Read the entire article here
New Publication
Evaluation of a Culturally Responsive Mentorship Education Program for the Advisers of Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam Program Graduate Students was recently accepted for publication in CBE—Life Sciences Education Vol. 21, No. 3
Read the article: https://www.lifescied.org/doi/10.1187/cbe.21-11-0321
Introducing the Science of Mentorship Podcast
Article from The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
We’re excited to announce the release of The Science of Mentorship, a new podcast from the Board on Higher Education and Workforce of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
This 10-part series explores how students in STEMM can discover more of their potential when they have responsive and effective mentors, told through the personal stories of top researchers in the United States.
Leaders like physicist Dr. Jim Gates and pathologist and former CWSEM member Dr. Vivian Pinn will share their experiences with mentorship throughout their careers. Whether positive or negative, each story focuses on mentorship skills that can and should be learned so all students’ potential can be unleashed to advance in STEMM.
The first episode, featuring the incoming Chair of the Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Dr. Gilda Barabino, will be out on January 14.