ANYL 274 |
| A life in science goes through many stages. For an academic, there are the periods as undergraduate, graduate student, postdoc, and then assistant, associate, and full professor. Effective mentoring of an academic is difficult and requires commitment of time, energy, and resources, often across many years. Even with dedication, numerous and often unanticipated, unique challenges will be faced. This is especially true when the mentor is trying to help a mentee drawn from a non-standard demographic. The mentor chooses the mentee, but the mentee also chooses the mentor. For the mentee, the effective mentor is flexible, courageous, insightful, generous, attentive, and respectful. The mentor recognizes some essential characteristic in the mentee and works to promote the scientist and their science. For the demographically mismatched, effective mentoring is an ongoing experiment. Some examples and assessments are drawn from the experiments of the last twenty-five years. |
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Honoring Alanah Fitch, Recipient of the J. Calvin Giddings Award for Excellence in Analytical Education
1:30 PM-5:00 PM, Wednesday, 13 September 2006 Moscone Center -- Room 123, Oral
Division of Analytical Chemistry |