Mentoring under-represented students in life sciences
What: Mentoring for Success panel
When: Friday December 19th, 2014, 2:15pm-3pm, in Genentech Hall, Room N-114
Description: Find out from UCSF postdoctoral scholars about their experience mentoring City College of San Francisco (CCSF) students who are training to become research assistants and laboratory assistants. You will hear about successful mentoring and training practices when working with diverse students and staff, and hear about opportunities to mentor and train students yourself in the Spring 2015 through the UCSF-CCSF Mentoring and Teaching Program.
Want to find out more about the UCSF-CCSF Mentoring and Teaching Program?
Attend the CCSF Biosymposium on December 19th from 11:30 am to 3:45pm in Genentech Hall, Room N-114
This panel is part of the CCSF Biosymposium (register here), a day-long event organized by the CCSF Bridge to Biosciences, a laboratory technician training program, where you will also have the opportunity to:
• Meet Spring 2015 interns (mentees) during the Career Exploration Poster session from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm (you can also volunteer to judge the session)
• Get invited as a scientific expert for the Lunch and Networking Round Tables to meet more students and alumni from the program from 12:30 to 1:15 pm
• Listen to past and current mentors in the Mentor Panel from 2:15-3pm, on their strategies to successful mentoring.
• Listen to interns in the Intern Panel from 3pm to 3:45pm, on their experiences and challenges during their internships.
• Network with CCSF Faculty members as well as non-UCSF mentors in Bay Area biotechnology companies and laboratories
Why is this important?
Developing mentoring, training and supervising skills will help you get started as a PI in an academic institution, or as a scientist in the industry. Because the students and technicians you will work with in your new lab may come from very different backgrounds than you or your UCSF colleagues, it is important that you develop these skills early on, as a postdoctoral scholar. Experience mentoring under-represented students is particularly valued by primarily undergraduate institutions (teaching-intensive institutions), where faculty members are expected to provide undergraduate research (UR) experiences for students at their institutions.
Register today!
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Questions? Contact Laurence Clement, Program Director, Academic Career Development at [email protected].