DENGLER, NANCY G. Department of Botany, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A1. - Mentoring graduate students.
One of the best ways to encourage students to enter a field and to
assure their advancement is by providing them with role models and
mentors. A supportive environment is one of the best things we can
offer our younger colleagues, and mentoring is one the best ways to
create that environment. This session of Open Space will provide a
time when graduate students and established scientists can meet and
exchange information on the many aspects of becoming a scientist.
Although we welcome discussion of technical research questions, we
also hope to use this opportunity to desl with questions of gender,
social aspects of teaching and research, faculty expectations at
research and teaching insitutions, obtaining funding, departmental
politics, and other aspects of scientific work that are seldom
discussed.
Key words: funding, graduate students, mentoring, teaching and research