Physics Graduate Student Mentoring Program

The goals of the mentoring program are to provide entering graduate students with a resource and support system.  Entering graduate students will be assigned a older graduate student or post-doc as a mentor; the program provides for one lunch per quarter for each mentor and advisee (up to $15 thanks to Jim Allen).  Possible things to talk about with your mentor include:

• Classes
• Summer jobs
• Teaching
• Finding an advisor
• Being a grad student 
• Having a social life
• Life after grad school
  

For this first, provisional year of this mentoring program, all female first and second year students have been given a mentor.  Starting in Fall of 2003, every first year graduate student will be assigned to a mentor.  Mentors are assigned roughly according to research area.  Meeting with your mentor is not required, but is highly recommended - and hey, it's a free lunch and you might learn something!

If you'd like to become a mentor, please e-mail Colleen or Jenny.
If you don't have a mentor, but would like one, please e-mail Beth Gwinn.







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