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EstablishingaHigh-ImpactMentoringProgramFromtheGroundUp

LauraE.McGowan1andPerotSaelao21UniversityofCalifornia,Davis,DepartmentofLandAir&WaterResources,AtmosphericScienceGraduateGroup,Davis,CA

email:lemcgowan@ucdavis.edu2UniversityofCalifornia,Davis,CollegeofAgricultureandEnvironmentalScience,GeneGcsGraduateGroup,Davis,CA

email:psaelao@ucdavis.edu

Overview•  Previousmodelofsuccessfulandcompe22ve

graduatestudenthaschangedconsiderably•  Current landscape requires that graduate

studentshaveagreaterbreadthofexperiencein teaching, leadership, and mentoring inaddi2ontotheirresearch

•  While graduate students have easy access toimproving research skills, opportuni2es togain experience in other areas cri2cal toprofessionaldevelopmentarelacking

•  Project addressed these issues by providinggraduatestudentswithtrainingandeduca2oninmentorshipandprogramdevelopment

•  Projectwasimplementedviatwoworkshops

ProgramWorkshopsI.   MentoranUndergraduateStudent:ResearchTrainingandMentorship

Program(Image1)•  EstablishedSTEMResearchTraining&MentorshipProgram•  Matchedgraduate students in theSTEMfieldswith second-year

undergraduatestoassistwithongoingresearch•  Programhasstudentsspendonehoureverytwoweekstohelpan

undergraduatementeebuildresearchandanaly2calskills

II.   MentoringUndergraduatesforGraduateandPostdoctoralStudents(Image2)

•  Detailedhow to createamentorprogramwithinadepartment;including pairing mentors & mentees, funding, adver2sing,planningworkshops,crea2ngawebsite,etc.

•  Advice from previous mentors on maximizing researchrela2onshipwithundergraduatementee

ProgramAchievement•  Part1:Recruitment for thegroupspanned7unique

graduateprograms,and7differentmajors•  Part 2: Total of 26 aSendees from 18 different

departments

AcknowledgmentsWewouldliketoacknowledgetheprogramleadersTeresaDillingerandJPDelplanquefortheuniqueopportunitytoimplementourproject,aswellthesupportandprovisions.Wewouldalso liketoacknowledgeour2016-2017PTFTcohort fortheir thoughVuldiscourse.And lastlywewould liketogiveaspecial thankstotheVictoriaWhiteandtheUndergraduateResearchCenterfortheircollaboraYon.

Image1.ToptoboSom;flyerfortheworkshopandmentorpar2cipants.

Image2.ToptoboSom;MentoringUndergraduatesforGraduateandPostdoctoralStudentsworkshopaSendeesandeventflyer.

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GraduateStudent

Program/Department CountAnimalScience 3BiomedicalEngineering 3BMCDBGraduateGroup 1ChemicalEngineering 1Chemistry 3Civil&Environ.Engineering 1Ecology/GGE 4Entomology 1EntomologyandNematology 1EnvironmentalSciences 1Geography 1Hor2culture&Agronomy 1LAWR 1Linguis2cs 1MicrobiologyGraduateGroup 1MS-L 1PlantBiology 1PlantPathology 1

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Image 3. a) Distribu2on of graduate students who joined thementoringprogram(Part1),b)majordistribu2onofundergraduatesintheprogram(Part1),c)tablelis2ngthedepartmentofaSendees(Part 2), d) pie chart showing the percent of aSendees from STEMandHumani2es(Part2),ande)piechartofpercentofaSendeesthatweregraduatestudentsandpostdoctoralstudents(Part2).

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GraduateStudentMajorDistribuYon

AnimalBiology

CellBiology

Gene2csaneGenomics

ComputerScience

Economics

Chemistry

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UndergraduateMajorDistribuYon

EnvironmentalScienceandManagement

Gene2csandGenomics

Pharmaceu2calChemistry

CellBiology

BiomedicalEngineering

Sta2s2cs

Microbiology

SocialSciences