STROBE Center: JILA Research Professional Development Program

Instructors: Dr. Ellen Keister & Dr. Sarah Schreiner 

Event Details: The JILA Research Professional Development Program, a collaboration between the JILA Physics Frontier Center and the STROBE Center, is excited to announce two opportunities to take Mentoring in a Research Environment Training for postdocs and senior graduate students. Over 80 JILA postdocs and graduate students have taken this mentoring training, which is now required by NSF and NIH for young faculty grants. 

About CIMER Mentoring Training

This mentoring training comes from the highly tested and validated mentoring training program designed and written by the NSF Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research (CIMER) based at UW Madison. Listing this training on your resume will look terrific to all future employers - including industry and national labs. In this training, you will learn how to build an effective relationship with your mentee and optimize the success of both you and your mentee. The skills you learn here are applicable to all other levels of your professional life and will help you in your future careers. In this training, you will gain leadership competencies in aligning expectations, effective communication, communication, assessing mentee understanding, and fostering independence. 

Training Length: 4 hours total

If you are interested, please register here.

Please contact Ellen Keister ([email protected]) or Lauren Mason ([email protected]) with any questions.