Wisconsin Mentoring Seminar Featured in Science Magazine

In a recent article entitled, “The Merits of Training Mentors” published in Science Magazine, Christine Pfund, co-Director, Wisconsin Program for Scientific Teaching and Associate Director of the Delta Program in Research, Teaching and Learning and colleagues highlight the success of their mentor training seminar, the Wisconsin Mentoring Seminar.  Pfund and colleagues Sarah Miller Lauffer, and Jo Handelsman (Wisconsin Program for Scientific Teaching), Christine Maidl Pribbenow (Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute) and Janet Branchaw (Center for Biology Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison) co-authored the article about the seminar which focuses on training graduate students and post-doctoral researchers as mentors for undergraduate students.  The concept of the seminar is based on the philosophy that good mentoring skills can be learned.   The research on this seminar indicated some interesting impacts on the mentors, the mentors’ faculty advisors, and the undergraduates with whom the mentors worked.

To read the full article visit the Science Magazine website at http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/311/5760/473.

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