One-On-One Individualized Mentoring of Fellows and Seminars: Monthly-prearranged individual mentoring sessions are conducted with Doctoral Scholars as part of our continuous mentoring commitment. Scholars are free to contact the Director of Mentoring on a need basis. Further, bi-monthly seminars are arranged to extend the mentoring experience covering such topics as: Completing the Dissertation, Goal Setting: Professional and Life, Involvement in Scientific and Professional Organizations, Institutional Review Board Policies and Procedures, Responsible Conduct of Research, Financing Graduate Education, Securing Internships, Study Strategies for the Preliminary and Comprehensive Exams, Identifying a Research Topic, Successful Proposal Writing Techniques, and Meeting Graduation Deadline: Developing a Program of Study.

Peer Mentoring: Doctoral Scholars serve as peer mentors to new graduate students facilitating their successful adjustment to life in graduate school. This experience is beneficial to the Doctoral Scholars as well, particularly in that it allows them to feel a sense of accomplishment by giving back to others and aiding others in overcoming some of the obstacles they may face as new graduate student. It also reinforces the mentoring/advising requirement that Doctoral Scholars must fulfill once they transition to the academy. Moreover, the peer mentoring experience allows for the establishment of a community of scholars. Scholars in turn become very supportive of each other. Additionally, this activity provides Doctoral Scholars an opportunity to interact with graduate students outside their own disciplines and to share common goals and experiences. These partnerships and interdisciplinary interactions will create research and grant collaborations now and in the future.