FoR Chicago 2019: Mentoring Future Scientists

The importance that departments and institutions attach to supporting good mentorship, and providing mechanisms for accountability and addressing poor mentorship, have become an issue of intense scrutiny for early career researchers. Our meeting is imminent on June 14th 2019! We are dedicated to greater prioritization of mentoring practices in departments and at institutions, and hope to make progress at the meeting to push this forward. Follow #MentoringFutureSci on Twitter to keep up with the meeting!

 

Schedule – NOTE ALL TIMES IN CENTRAL TIME:

Meeting Schedule

June 14th, 2019

9:00 – 9:20 Opening remarks to frame need, background, and desired goals

Gary McDowell, FoR and Dr. Kathryn Milligan-Myhre, Assistant Professor for the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Alaska Anchorage

9:30 – 10:45 Framing Big Picture Needs, and Areas for Improvement

Early Career Researchers:

Dr. Susanna Harris,  The PhDepression LLC (https://www.thephdepression.com/)

Departments:

Dr. Kathryn Milligan-Myhre, Assistant Professor for the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Alaska Anchorage

11:00 – 11:30 Reconvene for discussion of outcomes from ECR, Departmental, and Satellite workshops

11:30 – 12:00 Keynote Presentation

Dr. Melissa McDaniels, Senior Advisor to the Dean for Research Mentoring, Graduate School and Postdoctoral Office, Michigan State University; Investigator, Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research; Co-Director, Master Facilitator Initiative, National Research Mentoring Network

Lunch

1:20 – 2:30 Defining Excellence Tiers for Various Mentoring Domains

Dr. Danika Khong and Dr. Elizabeth Wu, Scismic

2:30 – 3:30 Reconvene as a large group for discussion