Resources for Mentors
Handbooks, Guides, and Reports:
Donna J. Dean, Getting the Most out of Your Mentoring Relationships: A Handbook for Women in STEM (Springer, 2009). [available commercially]
“Elements of Good Advising” (University of Pittsburgh, Office of the Provost)
http://www.pitt.edu/~graduate/advising.html
“How to Mentor Graduate Students: A Guide for Faculty” (University of Michigan, Rackham Graduate School)
http://www.rackham.umich.edu/downloads/publications/Fmentoring.pdf
“Advising and Mentoring Students” (Ohio State University, Graduate School)
http://www.gradsch.ohio-state.edu/DEPO/PDF/MentoringAdvisingGradStudents.pdf
“Research Mentor Training” (University of Wisconsin, Center for Education Research)
http://researchmentortraining.wceruw.org/index.aspx
“Investing in the Future: National Institute of General Medical Sciences Strategic Plan for Biomedical and Behavioral Research Training (16 February 2011)
http://publications.nigms.nih.gov/trainingstrategicplan/
McKinsey Quarterly, “How the Best Labs Manage Talent” (May 2011)
http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/How_the_best_labs_manage_talent_2811
Digests of Best Practices
National Postdoctoral Association, Mentoring Plans for Postdoctoral Scholars
http://www.nationalpostdoc.org/publications/mentoring-plans
National Postdoctoral Association, Working with International Postdocs
http://www.nationalpostdoc.org/publications/mentoring-plans/254-resources-on-mentoring-international-postdocs
Laura Haynes, Sherrill L. Adams, and Jeremy M. Boss, “Mentoring and Networking: How to Make it Work,” Nature Immunology 9.1 (January 2008): 3-5.
http://www.nature.com/ni/journal/v9/n1/full/ni0108-3.html
Stephanie J. Bird, “Mentors, Advisors and Supervisors: Their Role in Teaching Responsible Research Conduct,” Science and Engineering Ethics 7 (2001): 455-68.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/u22871433v65u018/
Adrian Lee, Carina Dennis, and Philip Campbell, “Nature’s Guide for Mentors,” Nature 447 (17 June 2007): 791-7.
http://www.nature.com.turing.library.northwestern.edu/nature/journal/v447/n7146/full/447791a.html
Hugh Kearns and Maria Gardiner, “The Care and Maintenance of your Adviser” Nature 469 (January 2011): 570.
http://www.nature.com.turing.library.northwestern.edu/naturejobs/2011/110127/full/nj7331-570a.html
Diana B. Carlin and David D. Perlmutter, “Advising the New Adviser,” Chronicle of Higher Education, 5 September 2006.
http://chronicle.com/article/Advising-the-New-Adviser/46871/
Research on Mentoring:
Kecia M. Thomas, Leigh A. Willis, and Jimmy Davis, “Mentoring Minority Graduate Students: Issues and Strategies for Institutions, Faculty, and Students,” Equal Opportunities International 26.3 (2007): 178-92.
http://search.proquest.com.turing.library.northwestern.edu/docview/199674986/fulltextPDF/135165AB2C36851DB8C/1?accountid=12861
Lowell A. Goldsmith, “Mentoring: More Knowledge than Skills,” Journal of Investigative Dermatology (2011): 1587-88.
http://www.nature.com/jid/journal/v131/n8/full/jid2011158a.html
Paul R. Bergstresser, “Academic Mentoring,” Journal of Investigative Dermatology (2011): 273-4.
http://www.nature.com/jid/journal/v131/n2/full/jid2010396a.html#bib5
“Mentor-Protégé Relationships: Age Gap Really Does Matter,” Science Daily 3 June 2010.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100602131344.htm
This digests the findings of a study conducted at Northwestern University:
R. Dean Malmgren, Julio M. Ottino, and Luis A Nunes Amaral, “The Role of Mentorship in Protégé Performance,” Nature 465 (3 June 2010): 622-6.
http://www.nature.com.turing.library.northwestern.edu/nature/journal/v465/n7298/full/nature09040.html
Linda Pololi and Sharon Knight, “Mentoring Faculty in Academic Medicine: A New Paradigm?,” Journal of General Internal Medicine 20.9 (September 2005): 866–870.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1490198/
Lewis Z. Schlosser, Sarah Knox, and Alissa R. Moskovitz, ” A Qualitative Examination of Graduate Advising Relationships: The Advisee Perspective,” Journal of Counseling Psychology 50.2 (2005): 178–88.
http://epublications.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=edu_fac&sei-redir=1#search=%22Qualitative%20Examination%20Graduate%20Advising%20Relationships%3A%20Advisee%20Perspective%22
Allan Schnaiberg, “Mentoring Graduate Students: Going beyond the Formal Role Structure,” American Sociologist (2005): 28-42.
http://www.soc.iastate.edu/sapp/soc591schnaiberg.pdf
The late Professor Schnaiberg was a faculty member at Northwestern.
Testimonials
Adam Bryant, “I Was Impossible, but Then I Saw How to Lead,” New York Times 3 December 2011. [Interview with Ruth J. Simmons, President of Brown University]
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/business/ruth-simmons-of-brown-university-on-amiable-leadership.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1&emc=eta1#
Patrick Limbach, “Can a White Male Really be an Effective Mentor [of racial minorities]?” Science Magazine posted 15 February 2002
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2002_02_15/noDOI.14045371530930434946
