| Do you want to find a mentor? Do you want to be a mentor? AWIS offers a variety of mentoring resources.
AWIS and MentorNet Team to Provide e-Mentoring Opportunities
MentorNet's One-on-One Mentoring Programs focus on matching women and underrepresented minorities with female or male professionals from all sectors as mentors for one-on-one, email-based mentoring (e-mentoring) relationships. As an AWIS member, you can sign up as a protégé or mentor -- for free.
Visit your benefits page for more details.
Make a Local Connection
Not near a chapter? We may be able to put you in touch with a more senior woman in your field. Contact the AWIS National Office.
To Get You Started: List of Topics to Discuss
For students:
- Career opportunities and options
- Selection of academic coursework
- Research opportunities
- Self-image and self-confidence
For more advanced professionals:
- Professional contacts and networking
- Balancing work and family
- Getting grants, getting published, getting noticed
- Negotiating hurdles in the workplace
AWIS Chapter Mentoring Activities
Chapters engage in a variety of activities that involve:
- direct one-on-one mentoring
- group mentoring in which an "audience" receives advice, via career days, panel discussions, and the like
- indirect mentoring in which the visibility of a woman scientist encourages aspiring women scientists
- other activities teach attendees how to be effective mentors to younger women and/or provide relevant resources.
Mentoring: Read All About It
A Hand Up-an acclaimed paper mentor, recently updated for its 3rd edition, that provides advice from women scientists across fields and education/career levels.
Una Mano al Futuro; en Breve, an abbreviated edition of A Hand Up especially oriented to Latina students (with interviews of Latina women scientists) and translated into Spanish.
Articles in AWIS Magazine
- "Mentoring: Developing the Nation's Science, Mathematics and Engineering Workforce", by Marilyn Suiter, in Vol 32, No 3, Summer 2003
- "MentorNet ACE: Academic Career E-Mentoring for Women in Science and Engineering", by Kathy Ruby, in Vol 33, No 4, page 40, Autumn 2004
- "On Mentoring", by Sydney Gary, in Vol 33, No 4, Autumn 2004
- "Giving Much/Gaining More: Mentoring for Success", book review by Margaret Reilly, in Vol 33, No 2, Spring 2004
- "AWIS Receives Presidential Mentoring Award", by Kimberly Macleod, in Vol 27, No1,Winter 1998, page 33
Culitvating Academic Careers: AWIS Project on the Academic Climate, is the executive summary of the final report from a grant to AWIS. The full report is in the Winter 1998 issue of AWIS Magazine (Vol 27, No 1) beginning on page 22, with page 25 addressing mentoring of students.
Creating Tomorrow's Scientists: Models of Community Mentoring, is the final report for a grant to AWIS. The report was published as the July-August 1997 edition of the AWIS Magazine (Volume 26, No. 4)
Mentoring Means Future Scientists: A Guide to Developing Mentoring Programs, published in 1993 as the final report of a three year AWIS project funded by the Sloan Foundation. |
