e-Mentoring Program

Are you a graduate student, postdoc or early-career faculty member? If so, you could benefit from having a MentorNet e-mentor for advice and guidance about your career. Are you an experienced researcher, educator or late-career faculty member?  If so, your expertise will greatly benefit a protégé while increasing your leadership and mentoring skills.

With a recent grant from the Elsevier New Scholars Program, we are continuing to offer a FREE Evolution Tri-Societies MentorNet e-Mentoring Program to all who will be attending Evolution 2010. We have received funding to support this new program for the Evolution conferences from 2009 to 2011. We encourage all members to take advantage of this unique opportunity, which is detailed below. If you have any questions about e-Mentoring, please contact Leah Larkin or Heidi Meudt.

MentorNet is an award-winning mentoring organization that matches mentors with compatible protégés for an eight-month pairing, which includes weekly or biweekly e-mail discussion prompts to foster supportive mentoring relationships.  When you create a profile in MentorNet's system and specify that you are a member of the Evolution Tri-Societies Mentoring Program, their proprietary software will recommend suitable matches between established scientist mentors and early-career protégés (including graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and assistant professors) from SSB, ASN, and SSE.  Paired mentors and protégés will have the opportunity to meet one another (and other participants) at a tri-society symposium luncheon at the conference as they begin their eight-month pairing. 

Want to know more?  Click here to see our poster from Evolution 2009 and join us for a FREE e-MentorNet Luncheon at Evolution 2010.

Ready to sign up?  Interested mentors may sign up here, and interested protégés may sign up here. Be sure to specify "Evolution Mentoring" as a requirement in your preferences.