Mentoring Resources

Graduate & Postdoc Committee 

During the 2019-2020 academic year, the Graduate Student and Postdoc Committee, in coordination with HHMI, conducted a survey of the Biology graduate students and postdoctoral scholars which produced a call to action from the department to develop resources for mentorship. 
 

Mentorship Compact

During the 2020-2021 academic year, the Graduate Student and Postdoc Committee has developed a mentorship checklist for new graduate students and postdocs in our department. The checklist is designed as a 1-page "conversation starter" to address topics at the mentor-mentee dyad and lab group levels. 

Mentorship Compact Checklist

Mentorship Compact Checklist with DEC Suggestions

Mentorship Philosophies

IDP Form

Helpful Links

Campus Resources

• UW Resilence Lab: Well-Being for Life & Learning

Academic Resources

• Masters KS, Kreeger PK (2017) Ten simple rules for developing a mentor–mentee expectations document. PLoS Comput Biol 13(9): e1005709. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005709 

• Fleming M, House S, Hanson VS, et al. The Mentoring Competency Assessment: validation of a new instrument to evaluate skills of research mentors. Acad Med. 2013;88(7):1002-1008. doi:10.1097/ACM.0b013e318295e298 

• Pfund C, Byars-Winston A, Branchaw J, Hurtado S, Eagan K. Defining Attributes and Metrics of Effective Research Mentoring Relationships. AIDS Behav. 2016 Sep;20 Suppl 2(Suppl 2):238-48. doi: 10.1007/s10461-016-1384-z. PMID: 27062425; PMCID: PMC4995122. 

• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. The Science of Effective Mentorship in STEMM. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/25568. 

• The Professional Counselor: Experiences of Cross-Racial Trust in Mentoring Relationships Between Black Doctoral Counseling Students and White Counselor Educators and Supervisors

• Brown University: Inclusive Mentoring 

Antiracist Resources

• Examples of Racial Microaggressions