Getting Started with the EMS Mentoring Program
You are invited to participate in a new mentoring program sponsored by the Environmental Mutagen Society. You may choose to participate as a mentor or as the mentored or both! Participation in the EMS Mentoring Program could have a number of tangible benefits for you. You could obtain scientific and technical advice from someone knowledgeable in your field. You might receive assistance with grant or manuscript writing. You might learn who in your field is currently looking for a post-doc. These types of mentoring interactions will occur based on your specific circumstances: your experiment won’t work, the grant deadline is approaching, or you’re looking for a new position.
At the start, however, it‘s important for mentor and mentored to get to know one another. Obviously, a mentor will not be in a position to offer scientific or career advice if he or she isn’t familiar with your research and career goals. To begin developing a collegial relationship, mentor and mentored need to arrange some initial interactions, and the Annual EMS Meeting is an ideal time for this.
At the meeting, you could:
- Meet for coffee or a meal, maybe the evening before the meeting starts.
- Attend the Mentoring Program Special Lecture at the Student/New Investigator Poster Session and Welcoming Reception Orientation.
- Attend each others posters and presentations.
- Be introduced to other EMS-ers, and discover a great group or people.
- Explore career and education opportunities.
- Discuss which special interest group meetings to attend.
- Join the same EMS committee as your mentor.
After the meeting, you could:
- Have an e-mail discussion of what you found particular new or exciting at the meeting.
- Discuss how this new information might relate to your particular research.
- Let the mentor know about upcoming projects (and their deadlines) and how the mentor can assist with those projects.
In order to take advantage of the opportunities for interaction at the 2006 Annual EMS Meeting in Vancouver, you should sign up for the EMS Mentoring Program now. To sign up, you simply click on the following link and fill out a Mentoring Profile. Your answers will be used to match you with an EMS mentor. If you are willing to become an EMS mentor, please fill out the top portion of this form. If you have any questions or comments about the EMS Mentoring Program feel free to contact Kandace Williams (kanwilliams@mco.edu).
