S3E1: What is a mentor?

NINDS's Building Up the Nerve

The third Season of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke’s Building Up the Nerve podcast helps you strengthen your mentoring relationships with tools and advice from both trainees and faculty. We know that navigating your career can be daunting, but we're here to help—it's our job!

In the first episode of the season, we will set the stage by defining who a mentor is and discussing different types of mentoring relationships, and mentoring models.

Featuring Claire Horner-Devine, PhD, Co-Investigator of BRAINS and Founder, Counterspace Consulting LLC; Fátima Sancheznieto, PhD, Assistant Researcher, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR); and Corey Welch, PhD, Director, STEM Scholars Program, Iowa State University.

Resources

• Broadening the Representation of Academic Investigators in NeuroScience (BRAINS): https://brains.uw.edu/
• Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS): https://www.sacnas.org/
• National Academies report on "The Science of Effective Mentorship in STEMM:" https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/the-science-of-effective-mentoring-in-stemm#sectionPublications
• Fátima Sancheznieto's TedxChicago talk "How to keep the next generation of brilliant scientists:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmwkDW3-99g
• The Inigo Montoya Method: https://lifehacker.com/introduce-yourself-like-inigo-montoya-1840314386
• UC Berkeley Biology Scholars Program (mentioned by Dr. Corey Welch): https://bsp.berkeley.edu/
• "A new framework for assessing the contributions of professionals in the natural sciences": https://ssbbulletin.org/article/view/8332/6343

Transcript available at http://ninds.buzzsprout.com/.

Разделы

1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Introductions (00:00:52)

3. Q&A (00:03:26)

4. Advice (00:33:11)

5. Outro (00:40:33)