Thank you for your interest in the Rising Research Graduate Mentorship Fellows Program and for applying to serve as a Graduate Fellow. Prior to applying, ensure that you have the approval of your PI/faculty mentor and that they recommend you participate in the program. Upon submitting your application, a message will be sent to your PI/Faculty mentor asking them to provide a short recommendation for your participation. Please notify them ahead of time that they will be asked to recommend you by answering 2 questions:
1. Why do you think this graduate student should participate as a Graduate Mentorship Fellow at this stage of their training? Please consider if this is an appropriate time in their Ph.D. program and how motivated and prepared they are to mentor an undergraduate researcher.
2. Please describe the role undergraduate researchers play in your group, including, how they interact with you, how involved they are in research group activities such as group meetings, and how they support research endeavors (e.g., work on independent projects, assist Ph.D. student projects).
TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE PROGRAM STUDENTS MUST:
- Be a Ph.D. student who have completed one year of their program.
- Attend 6 mentorship workshops in both the fall and spring semesters and 4 mentoring workshops over the summer. Dates will be provided in August. You are expected to consider attendance in the same way that you would a class or research group meeting. You may not enroll in courses at the same time as the workshop series.
- Attend a program kick-off with your mentee prior to the start of the spring semester.
- Actively engage in the process of selecting your mentee.
- Host 3, 30-minute lab tours or research talks for interested students in the fall semester.
- Mentor an undergraduate in person at the Ithaca campus from January-August. The undergraduate will engage in research activities for 6-10 hours during the spring semester and 35-40 hours per week for 8 weeks during the summer.