Mentoring resources

URP resources

The Undergraduate Research Program staff are available to assist you with information on how to plan for and successfully work with undergraduate researchers. URP staff can also provide consultation regarding requests for support of undergraduate research as a supplement to faculty research grants or for discipline-based undergraduate research programs. In addition, in response to faculty, postdoctoral researcher, and graduate student mentor requests, we have developed several resources that you may find helpful:

• Mentoring Undergraduate Researchers: Where to begin? presentation for the UW Postdoctoral Association on 12/12/06
• Poster for UW Teaching & Learning Conference on 4/24/07

• Our website includes information on:
  • Creating a communication and Workplan for Undergraduate Research
  • Posting research opportunities
  • Research ethics, including links to the Human Subjects Division and the UW Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
  • Funding for mentors and funding for students
  • The UW Undergraduate Research Symposium and other conferences
• Contact URP for advice concerning all phases of the mentoring process by:
  • Email: urp@uw.edu
  • Phone: 206-543-4282
  • Visit: 171 Mary Gates Hall

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Campus-wide resources

The College of Engineering

• NSF REU “kit”

The Graduate School

• The Graduate School provides a variety of mentoring resources for graduate students and mentoring resources for faculty.
• The Graduate School’s Center for Instructional Development and Research (CIDR) provides a variety of Teaching & Learning Bulletins, including:
  • Mentoring the Undergraduate Research Experience

Student Life

• The Counseling Center is a place where currently-enrolled UW students can receive assistance with study skills, career decisions, and a wide range of personal problems such as relationship difficulties, anxiety, or depression.

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Resources beyond UW

• Pfund, C., Pribbenow, C., Branchaw, J., Miller Lauffer, S., and Handelsman, J. (2006).The merits of training mentors, Science (311: 473-474). (Note: excellent article on benefits and challenges of diversity on pp. 71-81.)
• Handelsman, J., Pfund, C., Miller Lauffer, S., and Pribbenow, C. (2005).Entering mentoring: A seminar to train a new generation of scientists. The Wisconsin Program for Scientific Teaching, University of Wisconsin.
• Keeling, S. (2003).Advising the millennial generation, NACADA Journal, 23 (1&2), 30-36.
• National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine. (1997). Adviser, teacher, role model, friend: On being a mentor to students in science and engineering.Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.

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