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Enhancing Research Mentoring Symposium

March 5, 2025

10:00 AM - 3:15 PM

U of U Alumni House

 

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 Symposium Schedule

9:00am - 9:50am

Pre-symposium

Intro to Research Mentoring Class (RED 710)
10:00am - 10:15am Welcome
10:20am - 11:30am

Enhancing Research Mentoring Grant Presentations

  • Lilly Bautista Harrison and Lisa Aspinwall, Department of Psychology - Exploring Time Perception and Goal Prioritization in Aging: The Role of Socioemotional Selectivity Theory and Afterlife Beliefs
  • Natalia Torres, CVRTI and Gloria Slattum, Department of Pediatrics - Mentoring in between – a mentoring training for research Co-mentors
  • Jonathan Dillon, School of Music - Reconceptualizing Student Research in Education as a Process of Teacherly Being/Becoming
11:35 - 12:05 Breakout Session 1
12:05pm - 1:00pm Lunch & Showcase
1:05pm - 1:45pm

Mentoring on U of U Campus (Data and Trends)

Federal Grant Agencies: Mentoring/Training Requirements
1:50pm - 2:20pm Breakout Session 2
2:30pm - 3:00pm Breakout Session 3
3:05pm - 3:15pm Symposium Closing
3:15pm - 4:00pm

Post-symposium

Establishing Expectations and Maintaining Effective Communication (RED 711)

 

 

 

Past Symposium Archive

Symposium Schedule

8:30 AM - Registration

9:00 AM - Welcome by VPR Erin Rothwell

9:20 AM - Presentations by the 2022 Enhancing Research Mentoring Grant awardees

    • Connor Olsen: Skill-Focused Research Training Session for New Undergraduate Researchers
    • Anne Cook: Development of a Research Mentoring Effectiveness Framework
    • Tabitha Benney: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Research Team Mentoring

10:05 AM - BREAK

10:15 AM - Research mentoring/menteeing skills development 

Room 1: Main Ballroom

Room 2: Dumke

Intro to Research Mentoring
Shannon Barrios
Dept. of Linguistics

Intro to Mentoring Up
Amy Barrios
Graduate School

11:15 AM -  BREAK

11:25 AM - Research Mentoring Showcase (through lunch)

    • The University of Utah Vice President's Clinical And Translational (VPCAT) Research Scholars Program (Michael Rubin, Erin Wachs) - Poster
    • To Be “In and Not Of” the University, but Beyond – Estudios Rebeldes as Relational Mentorship Praxis (Leandra Hernandez, Jose Coreas, Agustin (Tino) Diaz) – Table
    • Office of Undergraduate Research – Table
    • Canvas Training Materials for Research Development, Matrix Mentoring, and Career Development (Cindy Furse , AJ Metz, Karen Tao, Donna Ziegenfuss, Arabella Bhutto) - Poster
    • The Graduate School (Mary Anne Berzins) - Table
    • REd Resources & Offerings (Office of Research Education) - Poster

    • Pedagogy Resources Available for U of U Instructors (Anne Cook, Martha Bradley Evans Center for Teaching Excellence) - Table

    • Mentoring opportunities within Honors and the Honors Thesis (Jenna Gardner, Honors College) - Table

12:00 PM - LUNCH

1:00 PM - Concurrent Sessions

 

Room 1: Henriksen

Room 2: Dumke

1:00

Sean Flynn, Research mentoring in NIH training grants

Janet Shaw & Maria Newton, Acknowledging the angst of mentoring

1:30

Darryl Butt, Providing clarity with mentoring agreements

Josh Steffen & Heather Briggs, Research Mentoring at scale in the Science Research Initiative

2:00

Annie Isabel Fukushima, Intersectionality as praxis - multi-level mentoring & coalition

Brian Baucom, Negotiating unit-wide approaches to research mentoring

2:30 PM - BREAK

2:40 PM - Call to action/closing by Dean Darryl Butt

3:00 PM - Symposium Ends

Last Updated: 1/16/25