Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research
Join Drs. Christine Pfund and Ruth Gotian on “Re-Examining Your Mentoring Relationship in the Current Moment” webinar! The webinar is a new career development webinar series hosted by NRMN. Drs. Chris Pfund and Ruth Gotian will speak about the process of reevaluating these relationships to determine which direction you need to take. The webinar will occur on September 13 at …
WCER mentor training is helping a growing group of top science PhD students from diverse backgrounds become academic leaders. In the development of future academic scientists, few individuals are more central to success than good mentors. Mentors can help students navigate different career paths and grow their professional networks. They can be advocates, teachers, sounding …
Article from The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Read the full story from the source. 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 …
Join us for 2020 National Postdoc Appreciation Week. The NPA is pleased to announce the 11th annual celebration of National Postdoc Appreciation Week (NPAW): September 21-25, 2020! With challenges come innovation. We are excited to announce a multi-institutional collaboration resulting in the first virtual NPAW celebration! Events include a keynote facilitated by the NPA with speakers, John Beacom, …
By Kathrine Havrilla Read the full story from the source. In January 2020, faculty from across the Harvard community were invited to attend Research Mentor Training workshops presented by Christine Pfund, director of the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research (CIMER) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The workshops — held on both …
Janet Branchaw, WISCIENCE Director, and Amanda R. Butz’s, research article, Entering Research Learning Assessment (ERLA): Validity Evidence for an Instrument to Measure Undergraduate and Graduate Research Trainee Development, has been chosen for publication in CBE- Life Sciences Education Journal.
Recently, CIMER Executive Director Christine Pfund and WISCIENCE Director Janet Branchaw were chosen to be special editors in a special issue of the Understanding Interventions journal. In addition, a number of CIMER staff members and affiliates have articles featured in this special issue. See below for more information about this special issue of Understanding Interventions …
This study uses a propensity score matching method to examine the difference in research mentor training outcomes by different platforms – whether the mentor was trained in person or online. With a sample of 172 mentors who were trained in a synchronous online platform and 655 mentors who were trained in person, results indicate that …
A recent article in CBE-Life Sciences Education presents two design and development research studies examining the effectiveness of the second edition of Entering Research, an undergraduate and graduate research trainee training curriculum. In this paper, Entering Research authors Janet Branchaw, Amanda Butz, and Amber Smith describe the process of revising and expanding the curriculum to 96 active learning activities, which …
Dr. Christine Pfund is a researcher at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA. With a strong network of colleagues and collaborators, her work focuses on developing, implementing, documenting, and studying interventions to optimize research mentoring relationships across science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine. Read on to discover how the success of these initiatives has resulted in the …