Mentorship & Career Development

Career Development

• grAdvantage empowers graduate students and postdoctoral scholars to achieve professional success by building community, developing career competencies and confidence, and exploring diverse pathways to employment.
• UCSD Career Center
• Advanced Professional Degree Consulting Club at UCSD
• UCSD NGP: List of Career Development Resources
• UCSD Biology Bulletin

Opportunities for URMs

• National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN)
• Yale Ciencia Academy for Career Development
• Society for Neuroscience: Neuroscience Scholars Program

Mentorship

Resources for recruiting diverse undergraduate researchers, effective mentoring, and fostering an inclusive lab environment as a graduate student

• The Institute for Broadening Participation: Mentoring Manual
• Undergraduate Mentee Compact: tool to develop clear expectations for mentorship with an undergraduate
• Evidence-Based Strategies for Improving Diversity and Inclusion in Undergraduate Research Labs
• Better recruitment of undergrads for research

Undergraduate Recruitment at UCSD

• Current UCSD Student Organizations
• Research Experience & Applied Learning Portal

Teaching and Learning at UCSD

• Teaching + Learning Commons