Peer Mentoring Signups

PGSC is happy to announce the beginning of peer mentoring in our department! This is independent of the new faculty mentoring which the department is starting in the fall. The goal of peer mentoring is to establish lasting relationships between less experienced students and more veteran graduate students who want to give back to the department.

Thanks to everyone who has signed up already for the new peer mentoring program! While initial mentor / mentee groups have been assigned, you can still sign up using the following forms:

We will be using either a small group or one-on-one format depending on interest and numbers to ensure that mentors don’t feel overwhelmed or burdened by their involvement. We are taking steps to make sure that we can match mentors with mentees based on similar research interests as well as making sure that international students and women/gender minorities have an opportunity to be mentored by grad students who understand their unique situations. There is no deadline to sign up, but if you are interested, we encourage you to sign up as soon as possible for planning purposes. Please encourage members of your group to sign up for peer mentoring. This is a great opportunity to help our department become an even better place to be a student and researcher.

Thank you,
Brent Mode
PGSC Peer Mentoring Committee Chair