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The Science of Mentorship: A STEMM Podcast
In this series from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, you’ll hear personal stories about mentorship experiences from STEMM leaders, in the...
Inclusive Environments: Finding Support When Isolated
In this episode, Dr. Barabino shares how she responded to a lack of mentorship, where she found supportive networks, and how she’s creating inclusive environments so t...
Opportunity: Giving Access to All Students
In this episode, Dr. Michael Summers shares how positive mentoring experiences led him to his current position, how he worked to provide access and opportunity through...
Multiple Mentorships: Equipping Students For All Situations
In this episode, Dr. Akiko Iwasaki tells the story of her journey through STEMM academia and beyond as a woman from Japan. There were times she was discouraged from co...
Mutual Benefits: Constructing Great Futures Together
In this episode, Dr. Jedidah Isler tells her story of how her career in astrophysics shaped her development and approach to mentorship. Through times of consistent sup...
Go Further: Guiding Discovery of Passions
Theoretical physicist Dr. Jim Gates was often the only African-American in the physics departments in which he worked and learned. In this episode, he tells his story ...
Institutional Barriers: Implementing Effective Mentoring Practices
Biochemist Dr. Keith Yamamoto had positive mentoring experiences during his undergraduate and graduate careers where his mentors consistently guided and helped him dev...
Expectations: Acknowledging The Power We Hold
Biological anthropologist Dr. Kate Clancy shares her experience of observing gaps within the mentoring ecosystem, then taking action to create more inclusive spaces fo...
Workplaces: Developing A Culture Of Mentorship
Astronaut and engineer Dr. Ellen Ochoa was the first Hispanic woman to go to space. When she first joined NASA, Dr. Ochoa discovered a culture that recognized the valu...
Presence: Never Face Obstacles Alone
When pathologist Dr. Vivian Pinn started medical school, she was passionate to learn medicine. But often, as the only African American woman in a world dominated by wh...
Role Model: Envisioning a Hopeful Future
Mathematician Dr. Juan Meza initially experienced a lack of effective role models in his academic career. At times, it was difficult to see himself as a future leader ...
Finding a Mentor
In this first episode of Season Two, host Bethany Brookshire takes us through the experiences of undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate students. These students sh...
Setting Expectations and Boundaries
New mentoring relationships can be intimidating. Mentees may not know what to expect of their mentors, or what the goal of the mentoring relationship is. For mento...
The Impact of Effective Mentoring on Family
For many students in STEMM, family life is a top priority. However, some students have found tension when it comes to balancing family life and their STEMM careers, fr...
Building Trust & Addressing Power
Some students quickly trust their mentors. Others are hesitant to be vulnerable with them. And some students encounter barriers that disallow them to trust their mento...
Negative Mentoring Experiences一The Impact
Mentees must rely on someone with more experience and power to support them through their STEMM career. Sometimes, conflict happens. And it can have a massive impact o...
Negative Mentoring Experiences一The Response
After a negative mentoring experience, students are often left confused, unhappy, and unsure of how to move forward in their STEMM career. These experiences can be tri...
Acknowledging Identity in Mentorship
Mentoring relationships are social relationships, so identity - the way you think about yourself, how you are viewed by the world, and the characteristics you use to d...
Supporting Students Through Formal Mentoring Programs
It’s easy to assume that most mentoring relationships are organically formed. But effective mentoring can take many forms, and relationships are often formed through f...
Mentoring in a Post-2020 World
2020 changed everything一the way we live, communicate, and learn. The long-term physical isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic created big challenges for students a...
The Mentee Becomes The Mentor
Like the circle of life, there’s the circle of mentoring relationships. If the mentoring is effective, the roles of the mentee and mentor will change. Sometimes, mente...
Blooper Reel
Enjoy these bloopers from Season 2.