Chemistry Graduate Student Peer Mentoring Program

The goal of this program is to help incoming grad students with questions about starting grad school (research, classes, moving to Seattle, work/life balance etc.) as well as integrating them into the department when they arrive. If you’re an incoming student with questions about life as a UW chemistry grad student, or if you’re a current grad student interested in sharing your expertise, this mentorship network might be for you! Participation in this informal, student-led network is not only voluntary but entirely customizeable. We will partner all interested first year chemistry graduate students with a more senior graduate student based on their specific needs. To extend beyond traditional mentoring roles, we will plan events for all the participating mentees and mentors, so we can all share in each other’s expertise and learning. If there’s anything we’ve learned as graduate students, it’s that you’re never too old to learn something new or too young to teach a lesson.

• Link to the Mentoring Website

Mentoring Resources

• General Mentoring Resources
• The Undergraduate Research Program at UW
• Prof. Sarah Keller’s Mentoring Resources

Other Mentoring Opportunities

• Seattle AWIS group mentoring program – group mentoring program for women in all different STEM fields, organized by the Seattle Association for Women in Science
• UW Women in Chemical Engineering CheMentoring Circles
• Chemistry Women Mentorship Network (Chem WMN) – co-founded by Prof. Brandi Cossairt, national network of women in academic chemistry, matches students and postdocs with professors for mentoring via email/Skype
• MentorNet: The E-mentoring network for diversity in engineering and science