Undergraduate/Graduate Student Mentoring Dinner

We’re looking for 30 graduate women volunteers for our last Undergraduate Mentoring Dinner for this semester. This is a chance to share your advice about applying to graduate schools and fellowships with undergraduate students in an informal setting. Sandwiches, salads, and desserts will be provided from Atkins Farm. Please let us know if you’re interested […]

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Undergraduate/Graduate Student Mentoring Dinner

We’re looking for some graduate student volunteers to help us host an undergraduate/graduate student mentoring dinner.  At this event, we’ll be talking about ways to obtain summer research opportunities, both on-campus and off campus. We’ll also focus on how to write confident and clear professional emails to professors regarding research, and talking points when meeting […]

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Graduate/Undergraduate Mentoring Dinner: Selling Yourself as a Scientist!

This is a great opportunity for graduate students to mentor undergraduates about graduate school, interviewing tips, and career advice. We will be workshoping elevator pitches and discussing personal statements. We’re looking for 10-15 enthusiastic graduate students to attend. Dinner from Atkins Farms will be provided. Additionally, if you know any undergraduates who would benefit from […]

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(Another) Fantastic Undergraduate/Graduate Student Mentoring Dinner!

Last month at a mentoring dinner event, our dinner theme focused on graduate school applications – we wanted to get the undergraduate students interested in and excited about the process of applying to graduate school.  Our undergraduate mentees got plenty of informal time to talk about their thoughts on graduate school and ask any questions they […]

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Undergraduate/Graduate Mentoring Dinner was a resounding success (again)!

Last week’s undergraduate/graduate mentoring dinner went extremely well! We had 30 attendees and received positive feedback about the speed elevator pitch activity, in which students were asked to give their short “elevator pitch” (what you would tell someone about your research if you met them on a long elevator ride) to other students. Students were nervous […]

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First Informal Mentoring Dinner was a Wild Success!

Last week, UMass Amherst undergraduates in the College of Natural Sciences and College of Engineering were able to attend an informal mentoring session with some of the school’s graduate students in STEM fields.  A pizza dinner was served, and undergraduates had a unique opportunity to chat with their graduate student counterparts.  Around thirty undergraduate mentees […]

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