Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research
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. Read the full article online.
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 online. 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.
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 …
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.
WCER scientist and CIMER Associate Executive Director Melissa McDaniels helped design and deliver a two-day workshop in Washington, D.C. aimed at helping the nation’s research universities and associated stakeholders understand how to better implement, incentivize and create accountability structures in doctoral education programs nationwide. Read more about Melissa’s efforts
CIMER is keeping busy with all of these new publications. The latest, published on Sept. 16, 2022, in CBE – Life Sciences Education, investigates whether the training modality affects mentor training outcomes. Read the full journal article in CBE – Life Sciences.
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 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 researchers become …
Read the second Forbes article with tips by top mentoring experts on how to be a better mentor, with contributions from Dr. Angela Byars-Winston and Dr. Christine Pfund titled Mentoring Doesn’t Need To Be A Trial And Error Practice.
A pioneering program at UC San Diego Health Sciences serves as a successful model for medical schools looking to improve faculty diversity and success January 11, 2022 | Nicole Mlynaryk, Bigelow Science Communication Fellow Read the full article about CIMER’s work with UCSD.