Mentors

Finding a Mentor or Mentee

Siteman Cancer Center

WU Undergraduates

View a listing of Siteman Mentors currently accepting undergraduate trainees for the summer or for BIO 200/500/265 credit.

WU Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences

Graduate Students & Predoctoral Trainees

Resources for choosing and working with your mentor.

Siteman Cancer Center

Mentors in Need of Trainees

Please contact our office to be added as an available opportunity for WU undergraduates and summer trainees.

WU Mentoring Resources

WashU Office of Postdoctoral Affairs

Postdoc Peer Mentorship Program (PPMP)

Provides WU postdocs with an opportunity to develop mentor-mentee relationships between more experienced and newer postdocs.

WashU

Academy of Educators

Join the WashU

First-Generation Faculty Directory

The Office of Student Affairs and TRIO Student Support Services believes that highlighting First Generation identities and experiences at the faculty and staff level will encourage First Gen WashU students to reach out, seek advice, and flourish within the WashU community.

WashU

Mentoring at the School of Medicine

Support available from the Office of Education at the WU School of Medicine

External Growth Opportunities

University of Wisconsin

Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research (CIMER)

National Academy of Sciences

The Science of Mentorship

Each podcast episode highlights evidence-based mentorship skills that maximize STEMM trainees’ potential.

EdgeForScholars.Org

Tips to Enhance Diversity in Your Lab

EdgeForScholars.Org

Effective Strategies for Mentoring Minority Trainees

Diversity Program Consortium

National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN)

This network, implements and disseminates innovative, evidence-based best practices to improve mentoring relationships at institutions across the country.

Tools

AAMC

Compact for Biomedical Graduate Students and their Research Advisors

AAMC

Compact for Postdoctoral Appointees and their Mentors

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty

Washington University

Research Profiles for all School of Medicine Investigators

Siteman Cancer Center

List of Cancer Researchers

Readings

American Society for Cell Biology

Reassess–Realign–Reimagine: A Guide for Mentors Pivoting to Remote Research Mentoring

Nature

Six mentoring tips as we enter year two of COVID

Journal of Clinical and Translational Science

Mentoring in crisis does not need to put mentorship in crisis: Realigning expectations

PLOS ONE

Culturally aware mentorship: Lasting impacts of a novel intervention on academic administrators and faculty

American Society for Cell Biology

Measuring Research Mentors’ Cultural Diversity Awareness for Race/Ethnicity in STEM: Validity Evidence for a New Scale

Journal of Healthcare Leadership

Value, Support, and Advancement: An Organization’s Role in Faculty Career Intentions in Academic Medicine

Nature Podcast

How the pandemic widened scientists' mentoring networks