In This Edition
January 29, 2020
Diversity Program Consortium Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 1
Celebrating National Mentoring Month with the Diversity Program Consortium
Faculty mentors play a critical role in the mission to reach inclusive excellence in the biomedical research workforce, and they inspire this vision everyday. Read mentors’ words of wisdom on mentorship.
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Celebrate National Mentoring Month with the Diversity Program Consortium on Jan. 30 for the 2020 #MyBUILDmentor / #ThankYourMentor Day social media campaign!
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The Coordination & Evaluation Center hosted its January webinar on the new National Academies Press report, The Science of Effective Mentoring in STEMM.
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Research mentors from each college at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) are recognized annually by the BUILDing Scholars program for excellence in mentoring undergraduate research.
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Five ReBUILDetroit Scholars received awards for their research presentations at the 2019 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS), held Nov. 13-16 in Anaheim, California.
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The California State University Long Beach (CSULB) BUILD program had over 25 of its students participate at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) on Nov. 13, 2019, in Anaheim, California. Of the students attending the conference, 20 of them presented their research within disciplines such as kinesiology, psychology, and biomedical engineering.
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BUILD EXITO is working to strengthen institutional capacity for training the mentors who support traditionally underrepresented scholars pursuing research in biomedical fields.
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Strategic Empowerment Tailored for Health Equity Investigators (SETH), led by Elizabeth Ofili, MD, MPH, FACC at MSM, hosted their first cohort of research study participants in collaboration with the Research Centers at Minority Institutions (RCMI) Conference in Bethesda, Maryland on Dec. 14-15, 2019.
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Whether you’re new to the concept of mentoring or you’ve had mentors throughout your life, finding a new mentor who is the right fit can be daunting. Here are some key tips for starting a virtual mentoring connection.
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Christine Pfund, along with a strong network of colleagues and collaborators, focuses on developing, implementing, documenting, and studying interventions to optimize research mentoring relationships across science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine.
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This spring the University of Maryland, Baltimore County celebrated the 30th anniversary of one of its hallmarks: the Meyerhoff Scholars Program.
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One of the California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) BUILD II Principal Investigators, Chi-Ah Chun, Ph.D., recently spent time speaking with the CSULB Provost, Brian Jersky, Ph.D., on his podcast.
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Event Date: Fri, Mar 13, 2020 to Sun, Mar 15, 2020 Location: Sheraton Gunter Hotel
San Antonio, TX |
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Event Date: Mon, May 18, 2020 to Tue, May 19, 2020 Location: University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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Event Date: Thu, Jun 04, 2020 to Fri, Jun 05, 2020 Location: University of Wisconsin-Madison |
The NIH Diversity Program Consortium (DPC) Newsletter provides updates on activities at DPC sites, shares progress on collaborative efforts within the consortium, and highlights news and recent publications related to diversity and mentoring in the biomedical sciences.
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