Thanks to the tireless efforts of our Graduate Student Peers, Graduate Division staff, and many other guest contributors, the UCSB GradPost has been going strong for two years. Over this time we have posted over 1,000 articles, tips, funding opportunities, jobs, events, and more. To highlight some of our most useful resources, we will be featuring the best GradPost articles from a number of categories in the upcoming weeks.
Today we bring you our best resources for learning about mentoring and the options available on campus:
- The Importance of Faculty-Student Interaction (11/3/10): Some recommendations for improving communication with your advisor
- Six Things to Consider When Choosing a Mentor (12/4/10): A video about choosing your mentors
- Physics Circus Brings Science to Schools (4/25/12): Information about a mentoring opportunity in local K-12 schools
- Get Experience Mentoring as a Graduate Student (7/2/12): Resources for being a mentor and lists of mentoring opportunities on campus
- Paying it Forward as a Graduate Student Mentor (10/17/12): Diversity peer Mario Galicia shares his experience mentoring other students
- Navigating your Relationship with a Faculty Advisor: Advice from Dr. Catherine Murphy (10/19/12): Advice from a UCSB workshop about maintaining a healthy relationship with your faculty advisor
- Peer Mentoring: Grad Students Discuss the Challenges and Rewards (Part 1) (10/26/12) and Peer Mentoring: Grad Students Discuss the Challenges and Rewards (Part 2) (11/19/12): Read about the experiences of both grad student mentors and mentees in UCSB summer research programs