Louis Stokes Regional Center of Excellence for Wholistic Mentoring in STEM (WM STEM Center)
Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research (CIMER)
The resources below were selected from the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research (CIMER) and include a collection of mentorship relationships, actions, and experiences from both the culturally aware mentorship and mentorship education sections. These resources are intended for use by faculty mentors and mentees seeking to learn more about mentorship initiatives for URM students in a research laboratory setting.
Butz, A. R., Spencer, K., Thayer-Hart, N., Cabrera, I. E., Byars-Winston, A. (2019). “Mentors’ motivation to address race/ethnicity in research mentoring relationships”. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 12(3), 242–254. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31485286/
Byars-Winston, A., Butz, A. R. (2021). “Measuring Research Mentors’ Cultural Diversity Awareness for Race/Ethnicity in STEM: Validity Evidence for a New Scale”. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 20(2), ar15. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.19-06-0127
Byars-Winston, A.M., Branchaw, J., Pfund, C., Leverett, P., Newton, J. (2015). “Culturally Diverse Undergraduate Researchers’ Academic Outcomes and Perceptions of Their Research Mentoring Relationships”. Int. J. Sci. Educ. 37, 2533-2554. https://doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2015.1085133
Byars-Winston, A., Leverett, P., Benbow, R. J., Pfund, C., Thayer-Hart, N., and Branchaw, J. (2019). “Race and ethnicity in biology research mentoring relationships”. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000106
House, S.C., Spencer, K.C. and Pfund, C. (2018), "Understanding how diversity training impacts faculty mentors’ awareness and behavior", International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education, Vol. 7 No. 1, pp. 72-86. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJMCE-03-2017-0020
Pfund, C., Byars-Winston, A., Branchaw, J., Hurtado, S., & Eagan, K. (2016). “Defining Attributes and Metrics of Effective Research Mentoring Relationships”. AIDS and behavior, 20 Suppl 2(Suppl 2), 238–248. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-016-1384-z
Womack, V. Y., Wood, C. V., House, S. C., Quinn, S. C., Thomas, S. B., McGee, R., & Byars-Winston, A. (2020). “Culturally aware mentorship: Lasting impacts of a novel intervention on academic administrators and faculty”. PLoS ONE, 15(8). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236983
Abedin, Z., Biskup, E., Silet, K., Garbutt, J. M., Kroenke, K., Feldman, M. D., McGee, Jr, R., Fleming, M., and Pincus, H. A. (2012). “Deriving Competencies for Mentors of Clinical and Translational Scholars”. Clinical and Translational Science, 5(3), 273–280. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-8062.2011.00366.x
Anderson, L., Silet, K., & Fleming, M. (2012). “Evaluating and giving feedback to mentors: new evidence-based approaches”. Clinical and translational science, 5(1), 71–77. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-8062.2011.00361.x
Asquith, P., Hulland, C., and Hartenbach, E.M. (2019). Ob-Gyn Faculty Mentoring Handbook: A guide to best practices in mentoring. The University of Wisconsin, School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. https://www.obgyn.wisc.edu/media/ObGynMentorPromoHandbook.FINAL3rdEd.3.1.21.pdf
Branchaw, J., Guerrero, L., and Pfund, C. (2020). Interventions to Optimize Mentoring Relationships for Diverse Biomedical Researchers. Understanding Interventions, 11(1). https://www.understandinginterventionsjournal.org/article/12479-interventions-to-optimize-mentoring-relationships-for-diverse-biomedical-researchers
Diggs-Andrews, K. (2019). Improving Research Mentoring Relationships. American Association of Physical Anthropologists 88th Annual Meeting. https://bioanth.org/documents/202/3.27_AAPA_RMT_Participant_Packet.pdf
Fleming, M., House, S., Hanson, V. S., Yu, L., Garbutt, J., McGee, R., Kroenke, K., Abedin, Z., & Rubio, D. M. (2013). The Mentoring Competency Assessment: validation of a new instrument to evaluate skills of research mentors. Academic medicine: journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, 88(7), 1002–1008. https://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0b013e318295e298
Huskins, W. C., Silet, K., Weber‐Main, A. M., Begg, M. D., Fowler, Jr, V. G., Hamilton, J., & Fleming, M. (2011). Identifying and aligning expectations in a mentoring relationship. Clinical and translational science, 4(6), 439-447. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-8062.2011.00356.x
Hyun, S. H., Rogers, J. G., House, S. C., Sorkness, C. A., & Pfund, C. (2022). Revalidation of the Mentoring Competency Assessment to evaluate skills of research mentors: The MCA-21. Journal of Clinical and translational science, 6(1), e46. https://doi.org/10.1017/cts.2022.381
The Louis Stokes Regional Center of Excellence for Wholistic Mentoring in STEM is funded by the National Science Foundation under grants HRD2020697, HRD2020491, HRD2020548, and HRD2020524.
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