Mentors

The Value of MENTORS

Mentors will help you with the process of preparing for (and eventually applying to) graduate school. Mentors who have careers that you are most interested in pursuing may be able to give the best advice about how to go about pursuing it. Most graduate applications require 3 professional letters of recommendation. These letters of recommendation can seriously help or hurt your application. On our "applying" page, we have information about how to request letters. In preparing to apply, it will be helpful to you to think about pursuing opportunities that can connect you with supervisors and/or mentors who later may be able to write a letter of recommendation on your behalf.

The Value of MeNtors

How to Find a Mentor

Locally:
- Strategies for finding a local mentor:
Nationally:
- National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN)- The National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN) is a nationwide consortium of biomedical professionals and institutions collaborating to provide all trainees across the biomedical, behavioral, clinical and social sciences with evidence-based mentorship and professional development programming. NRMN’s program models emphasize the benefits and challenges of diversity, inclusivity, and culture within mentoring relationships, and more broadly the research workforce. The Goal of the National Research Mentoring Network is to enhance the diversity of the NIH-funded research workforce.