Advancing the science and practice of mentorship to support cultural change that values inclusive excellence.
Services
We offer training and consultation services to support your mentorship initiatives.
Trainings
CIMER Principal Facilitators provide training for individuals, institutions, and organizations to optimize research mentoring relationships for:
- Post-doctoral scholars
- Mentors
- Mentees
- Program administrators
- Instructors
- Staff
- Faculty
Consulting
CIMER is dedicated to supporting institutions and organizations in developing effective mentoring relationships and training programs. We offer specialized consultation services tailored to meet your needs. Visit the Work With Us page and submit a request.
Resources
We curate and build resources to support mentoring relationships.
Curricula
CIMER offers the following curricula to optimize the practice of mentoring relationships.
- Culturally Aware Mentoring
- Entering Mentoring
- Entering Research
- Mentoring Up
Additional Resources
A range of tools and toolkits, as well as self-study training options.
View and download a standard Entering Mentoring evaluation and learn about evaluations.
CIMER Updates
Upcoming Events
New Institute for Academic Leaders
CIMER is excited to announce a new offering: the CIMER Institute for Academic Leaders. The Institute is an intensive, 18-month, cohort-based learning experience for leaders who are ready to move from ideas to implementation.
Participants leave with a clear blueprint, shared metrics, and enhanced capacity to embed mentorship as a sustainable, equitable force that strengthens performance, accelerates talent development, and contributes to lasting change toward organizational excellence.
News
National Research Mentoring Network Coordination Center published a book
We’re excited to share that our colleagues at the National Research Mentoring Network Coordination Center have published a book on the lessons they learned while running the center for six years. The book includes information on developing a grant proposal, establishing communication infrastructure with project sites, coordinating the use of common measures, tracking collective progress, supporting a community of research managers, cleaning common data, and sunsetting a coordination center.
Running a National Research Coordination Center: Lessons Learned from NRMN
Recent Publications
- Branchaw, J.L., Butz, A.R., Ayoob, J.C. (2025, September). The comprehensive researcher development framework (CRDF): Core learning outcomes for research training. PLoS One 20(9): e0332587.
- Branchaw, Janet, and Christine Pfund (2025). Building Strong Mentorship Ecosystems to Support Positive URE Student Outcomes. 8 (4): 6-12.
- Commentary by our colleague from CU-Anschutz in Academic Medicine: Mandat, Bruce H., Blake, Nicquet M.J., Swartz, Talia H. (2025, October). Sustaining the Biomedical Research Workforce: Medical School Leadership in Supporting Research Learners, Academic Medicine, Volume 100, Issue 10, Pages 1113–1119.
- Sancheznieto, F., Pribbenow, C.M., Pfund, C. (2025). Tools for coordinating measurement use in science education and training. Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education. 26:e00060-25.
- Weber-Main, A. M., Spencer, K., Dums, E., Hyun, S. H., & Pfund, C. (2025, April). National dissemination of an online research mentor training intervention: Evidence of an asynchronous model to promote learning outcomes and behavior change. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 9(1), e113.
CIMER’s Zotero library includes a range of mentoring-related publications.
Collaboration & Community
Fostering connections among researchers and practitioners