GradFUTURES Forum 2021: Mentorship Best Practices: A Conversation.

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Meeting #GradFUTURESforum Alumni Engagement Careers & Professional Development Innovation/Entrepreneurship Leadership & Collaboration Mentorship

Fri, Apr 30, 2021

1:15 PM – 2:15 PM EDT (GMT-4)

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A major component of many careers - both within and beyond the academy - is mentoring trainees, yet graduate students often don't have formal opportunities to develop mentoring expertise. Since mentoring profoundly affects the well-being of individuals and teams, and consequently, scientific productivity and success, Drs. Niv and Murray designed the first-ever for-credit graduate course on mentoring at Princeton. While there is no magic formula, there are evidence-based best practices for mentoring, as well as field-tested ways to develop a reflective and inclusive personal style. In this session, they will share their insights into mentoring best practices, and you’ll hear from current graduate students in the course on their experiences.
 
Speakers:  Dr. Laura Murray, Associate Director, McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning, Princeton University
Professor Yael Niv, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton Univesity

This event is part of the 2021 GradFUTURES Forum: Broadening the Impact of the Ph.D. Within and Beyond the Academy. This unique, three-day professional development Forum includes interactive sessions and keynote presentations by members of the Princeton graduate community and industry leaders. The event is designed to help graduate students explore opportunities for leadership and meaningful professional growth within all fields of endeavor. Members of the broader campus community are welcome to register and to LEARN, SHARE & CONNECT at the second annual GradFUTURES Virtual Forum.

 

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Laura Murray

Assistant Director, Learning Programs, McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning

Princeton University

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Laura leads a program to support graduate students to learn and thrive while at Princeton. Her favorite part of this role is engaging directly with emerging scholars to help them identify and work toward authentic goals while cultivating a sense of purpose and meaning both within the academy and beyond it. Prior to joining Princeton in 2018, Laura was a Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education, where she completed a Ph.D. in Human Development and Education. Laura’s scholarly and applied work explores the potential of colleges and universities to promote young adult optimal development. She is particularly interested in the social, emotional, and academic identity development of students; well-being within university contexts; and transitions to and through higher education for under-represented minority and first-generation students, as well as for students with dis/abilities. Prior to her work in education, Laura was an independent documentary filmmaker for over ten years, producing social issue films for public television. She has a B.A. from Vassar College, an M.A. from Stanford University, and an M.S Ed. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.