Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research
Evelyn Marques Frazier, PhD, is a National Research Mentoring Network master facilitator for the Entering Mentoring and Entering Research curricula, a University Instructor, and the Coordinator of the Honors Research Thesis Pathway Honors Program in the Department of Biological Sciences at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). The undergraduate research programs were developed under an NSF Undergraduate …
Dr. Frazier is Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health, and an Institute Physician at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. She received her MD from Dartmouth Medical School, completed residency and fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital/Dana-Farber Cancer Center, and obtained a master’s degree from the Harvard …
Dr. Jennifer Gleason is an associate professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas. Gleason first started working with CIMER by contributing to the revision of Entering Research. As a former NSF-funded REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) director, she started training mentors in the program; it was a natural …
Stephanie House is a researcher and curriculum specialist in CIMER at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her role includes a mix of research, curriculum development, facilitation and administration. Since joining UW–Madison in 2009, House’s work has included curricular authorship, leadership of two randomized controlled trials (testing the efficacy of mentorship curricula), and facilitation of communities of …
Steve Lee is the Assistant Dean of Inclusion in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University. In this role, he leads efforts in recruiting and retaining a diverse and talented student body, particularly at the graduate student level. He also serves with CIMER (Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research) as …
Katy Luchini Colbry is the Assistant Dean for Graduate Student Services at the College of Engineering at Michigan State University (MSU), where she completed a BA and BS before earning an MSE and a PhD from the University of Michigan. She has published dozens of peer-reviewed works on engineering education and graduate student success, and has developed the EnSURE (Engineering Summer Undergraduate Research Experience) program at MSU, based on …
Dr. Kermin J. Martínez-Hernández is the founder of K-21 Consulting LLC and an associate professor in the Chemistry Department at St. John Fisher University in Rochester, New York. He was an active NRMN Principal Facilitator from 2010-2019 & CIMER Principal Facilitator since 2020 across the U.S., Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. He has over 10 years …
Dr. Melissa McDaniels is an Associate Executive Director & scientist in CIMER at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Since 2020, she has held appointments in both the Wisconsin Center for Education Research and UW’s Institute for Clinical and Translational Research. From 2014–2025, McDaniels served as a co-investigator on federally supported workforce development grants, including the NIH-supported National …
Christine Pfund, PhD, is a distinguished senior scientist and deputy director of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is also the director of CIMER. Pfund earned her PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology, followed by post-doctoral research in Plant Pathology, both at University of Wisconsin–Madison. Pfund’s work focuses on …
Dr. Amy Prunuske is Associate Dean of Medical Education and a Professor in the Internal Medicine and Biomedical and Translational Science Departments at the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine. Prunuske earned her PhD in Oncological Sciences at the University of Utah, followed by post-doctoral research in the Biochemistry Department at the University …