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Build Your Research Community

Build a Mentoring Network to Succeed in Graduate School and Beyond

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About the Course

In this free course, scientists from different backgrounds give concrete steps to building a mentoring network so you can be a more confident researcher and feel supported by your graduate school research community. You'll develop a detailed plan to complete your degree and meet your career goals. You’ll also learn evidence-based techniques and strategies for finding and building productive relationships with your primary research advisor(s), thesis committee, and other mentors during graduate school.

By the time you're finished, you'll have completed a plan to build a research home to help you succeed in graduate school and beyond.

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Course Development

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Course Speakers

Leaders in the scientific community talk about building the perfect research home and mentor community to be successful in graduate school and beyond. Speakers include:

Bruce Birren
Janet Branchaw
Bria Castellano
José Dinenny
Erin Dolan
Johnna Frierson
Joanne Kamens
Steve Lee
Judith Simcox
Ying Sun

Course Directors

Shannon Behrman
Janet Branchaw
Amanda Butz
Elie Maksoud
Alexandra Schnoes
Rosa Veguilla

Evaluation

Amanda Butz

Training Community Lead

Thi Nguyen

Discussion Guides

Thi Nguyen
Ryan Valdez

Platform Development & Management

Daniel McQuillen
Benjamin Van Renterghem

Graphics and Editing

Rebecca Ellsworth
Chris George
Maggie Hubbard
Lee Rossoff

Curriculum Content Editor

Helene Engler

Video Production

Eric Kornblum

Music and Sound Design

Marcus Bagala (Muse Light Music)

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Review

Lorenzo Lones
Thi Nguyen

Executive Direction

Sarah Goodwin (Executive Director)
Elliot Kirschner (Executive Producer)

Beta Testing

Special thanks to those who volunteered their time to review and test this course. You all gave such great feedback!

Sarah Goodwin
Noah Green
Anthony Harris
Doug Koshland
Lorenzo Lones
Maia Reyes
Elçin Ünal

Acknowledgements

We’d like to thank the following iBiology Team members for their support in the creation of this course:

Doug Koshland (President)
Evan Reeves (Director of Operations)
Ron Vale (Founder and Board Member)
Lobsang Wangdu (Wordpress Developer)

Funding

This work is supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under award number R25GM139147.