News & Events

  • 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 ...

  • Thriving or Burn Out in Mentoring, Pastoring, Service & Vocation – Part 1 w/ Christine PfundThriving 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 ...

  • 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 

  • New Curriculum posted in the CIMER portal

    Mentor Training for Research Development Professionals is a new curriculum for training the mentors of research development professionals and is now posted in the CIMER Portal. The curriculum developers and their institutional affiliations are Paula Carney, Loyola University of Chicago, Jan Abramson, University of Utah and Kathryn Partlow, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Research Development professionals help ...

  • Sancheznieto TedX Talk “How to keep the next generation of brilliant scientists”

    Watch and read about the Tedx talk by  Fátima Sancheznieto, on the importance of mentoring to attract and retain scientists. The link to the 12 minute talk can be found in the article.