This interactive workshop focuses on successful strategies graduate students can use when mentoring an undergraduate researcher or group of undergraduates conducting research. It also provides the opportunity to network with other graduate mentors and offers practical wisdom for mentoring undergraduates.
Whether you currently mentor undergraduates or not, we encourage you to ask our panel of graduate student mentors about their experience in mentoring undergraduates and how you can be successful in doing this yourself!
We will discuss mentoring styles and give examples of approaches to specific problems. Some of the topics will include:
Whether you currently mentor undergraduates or not, we encourage you to ask our panel of graduate student mentors about their experience in mentoring undergraduates and how you can be successful in doing this yourself!
We will discuss mentoring styles and give examples of approaches to specific problems. Some of the topics will include:
- Fostering independence in undergraduate researcher
- Successful work and meeting schedules
- Keeping students motivated
- Responsibilities of graduate student mentors in passing on research ethics and conventions of the discipline
- Strategies for dealing with problems or issues
Check out upcoming workshops and register on our calendar.
Check out the following resources for links to important Texas A&M resources that will be useful as you mentor undergraduates.
Handouts/Resources for Participants
- Summer 2024 Workshop Panelist List
- Case Studies
- Seed Questions
- Ten Salient Practices
- Making the Right Moves
- Advisor, Teacher, Role Model, Friend
- Tips for Mentors
- Tips for Supervising Research
- Summer 2024 Campus Resources for Mentors
- Nontraditional Students as Undergraduate Researchers
- Five Effective Strategies for Mentoring Undergraduates: Students’ Perspectives
- Scientific Writing Made Easy: A Step-by-Step Guide to Undergraduate Writing in the Biological Sciences
- Teaching Science Writing in an Introductory Lab Course
- Advantages for Ph.D.s of Supervising Team-Based Undergraduate Research Projects (opinion)
- Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research (CIMER)
- Council on Undergraduate Research
Campus Resources for Mentors
- Research Ethics and Responsible Conduct
- Research Compliance & Biosafety (RCB)
- Environmental Health & Safety (EHS)
- University Health Services (UHS)
- UHS Mental Health Services
- UHS: Emergency Resources
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UHS: Help Line
Phone: (979) 845-2700 (V/TTY)
- UHS: Self Help Resources
- UHS: Training Programs
- UHS: Suicide Awareness and Prevention
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Critical Incident Response Team (CIRT)
For emergencies, call the University Police Department at (979) 845-2345. For questions about the CIRT, call Student Assistant Services at (979) 845-3113.
- Tell Somebody
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Title IX Office
Phone: (979) 458-8407
- Student Legal Services
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Student Disability Services
Phone: (979) 845-1637
- Student Support Resources
- Step In, Stand Up
- Green Dot Bystander Training
- Information Technology (IT)
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IT: Open Access Labs
Phone: (979) 845-8300
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IT: Software Center
Phone: (979) 845-8300
- IT: Staff Accounts/Temporary IDs
- Reporting Aggie Honor Code Violations
- Student Rules
- Student Rules: Student Rights and Responsibilities
- Student Rules: Attendance
- Student Rules: Conduct Code
- SAPS: Authorship
- SAPS: Ethics and Responsible Conduct
- SAPS: Human Subjects
- SAPS: Biohazards
- SAPS: Vertebrate Animals
- SAPS: Intellectual Property
- SAPS: University Rules on Research
- Responsible Conduct of Research
- CTE's Graduate Teaching Assistant Requirements
- CTE's Graduate Mentoring Academy
- CTE's Mentorship Resources
- ARP's Research Leadership Program