Overview
- Offers an end-to-end guide to mentoring undergraduates in research
- Includes detailed guides to funding opportunities for undergraduate research
- Presents strategies for mentoring the next generation of STEMM professionals
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Preparing to (be a) Mentor
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Front Matter
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Mentoring Student Researchers
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Front Matter
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Mentoring Beyond the Research Experience
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Research experiences for undergraduates
- Obtaining undergraduate internship
- mentoring undergraduate researchers
- writing undergraduate research application
- Funding opportunities for undergraduate research
- Preparing to be a mentor
- Understanding mentorship
- increasing diversity in STEMM fields
- diversity equity inclusion and belonging in STEMM fields
- funding undergraduate research programs
- mentoring undergraduate researchers
- funding opportunities to support student internships
About this book
This book is a guide for mentors on how to recruit, mentor, and support students through a student research experience in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) fields. Being a successful research mentor benefits from the self-awareness and planning, strategies and skills that Success in Mentoring your Student Researchers can help you build and develop. These are useful for mentors working with any students, but especially those who have been minoritized in STEMM or are the first in their family to attend college.
The first part of the book introduces mentoring undergraduates and how it differs from traditional classroom instruction, active learning, and flipped classrooms; mentoring is collaboratively teaching research while doing research. A mentored undergraduate research experience also helps your mentees develop the skills necessary to be successful scientists and become part of STEMM communities. The central partof the book presents the undergraduate research experience as a “three-legged stool” whose legs—research, education, and community—each have unique values in advancing your mentees’ path in STEMM and all of which require setting, communicating, and realizing expectations for “success”--your mentees’ and your own. The last part of the book looks beyond the research experience, from evaluating your success as a mentor through helping your mentees to continue to develop and grow their STEMM careers and become mentors themselves.
This book is the mentor’s companion to the authors’ book for students, “Success in Navigating your Student Research Experience: Moving Forward in STEMM.”
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Manisha V. Patel (BS: Rutgers University, 2002; MS: University of Vermont, 2007) has been working in the academic and non-profit sector throughout her professional STEM career. She started out as a lab technician and quickly proved herself capable of managing projects and labs. Manisha has built a reputation for defining “the role of a newly founded position” and setting a standard of excellence. She brings her talents of organizational skills, collaborative techniques, communication, networking, and logistics coordination to support science globally. She has led and participated in initiatives seeking to enhance diversity and equity in STEM. Manisha is committed to building and supporting inclusive and diverse communities in science and education.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Success in Mentoring Your Student Researchers
Book Subtitle: Moving STEMM Forward
Authors: Aaron M. Ellison, Manisha V. Patel
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06645-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-06644-3Published: 06 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-06645-0Published: 05 September 2022
Series ISSN: 2211-1921
Series E-ISSN: 2211-193X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 98
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Higher Education, Science Education, Professional & Vocational Education