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The Transformative Effect of Mentoring Karen Van Ness, M.A. Adele Savage, M.S.

The Transformative Effect of Mentoring Karen Van Ness, M.A. Adele Savage, M.S. Academic Enrichment Programs, UCSD 26 January 2012. Karen Van Ness. F aculty M entor P rogram.

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The Transformative Effect of Mentoring Karen Van Ness, M.A. Adele Savage, M.S.

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  1. The Transformative Effect of Mentoring Karen Van Ness, M.A. Adele Savage, M.S. Academic Enrichment Programs, UCSD 26 January 2012

  2. Karen Van Ness

  3. Faculty Mentor Program • A program which connects undergraduates interested in research with faculty and labs that fit their research interests. • Program is for Winter and Spring quarters of each academic year. • Students take independent study courses (199s) for credit in the department in which the research is done. • Research may be the students independent project or research already being done by a professor or lab. • At the end of the year, students participate in the FMP Research Symposium.

  4. Special Programs within the FMP McNair Scholars Emergency Medicine Research Associates • For first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented students. • Includes an eight week research program in the summer. • Coordinated by Dr. Thomas Brown. • Runs concurrently with the FMP. • Students get hands-on experience working in the ER of one of UCSD’s hospitals. • Students receive credit through the School of Medicine.

  5. What the FMP offers • Help in finding a mentor. • Hands-on research experience. • Training in such areas as how to present at a conference and how to apply for scholarships, as well as how to write a research proposal and paper. • Experience presenting at a research conference. • A community of researchers.

  6. …but the mentor/mentee relationship is most important! • Students develop close, personal bonds with faculty and other researchers. This is particularly important in the departments in the sciences, which tend to have very large classes. • Despite UCSD’s status as an R1 institution, you see the commitment of the faculty to undergraduate education.

  7. Some student research projects from 2011… • “Perceptions of Schizophrenia Diagnosis and Preferred Treatment Options Identified by Middle-aged and Older Latino Patients and Their Families” • “Using fear conditioning to establish a mouse model for PTSD-like symptoms” • “A Transnational Symptom: The Actors and Processes of Gentrification and Globalization from Dallas, Texas to Jakarta, Indonesia” • “Barriers to Influenza Vaccination” • “Creating effective public health campaigns” • “A simple repeated game model of Three Strikes Law” • “Design and Synthesis of New Ligands for RNA Targets ”

  8. What students are saying

  9. If you have any questions, please contact Karen Van Ness at (858) 534-5791 or kvanness@ucsd.eduFMP blog: fmpucsd.wordpress.comFMP Twitter:#fmpucsd @fmpucsd

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