Center for Teaching, Learning & Mentoring

Research Mentoring

3 conversation bubbles: "How do I get things off on the right foot with a new mentee?" "How do I help students become independent researchers?" "How do I help my mentee get 'unstuck'?"

Featured resource

Icon in red of a box being checked offResearch Mentor Pre-Semester Check-In Template

Regular, planned check-ins support a successful mentor-mentee relationship and keep your mentee on track. Use this template to prepare for a pre-semester check-in.

Nominate outstanding mentors for campus awards

The Awards for Mentoring Undergraduates in Research, Scholarly and Creative Activities recognize UW–Madison faculty members, groups of mentors, academic staff, post-doctoral fellows and graduate students for the outstanding work they do in mentoring undergraduates. Honorees receive $2,000 of university expendable funds (for supplies and expenses).

Nominations due March 3

The Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring recognizes faculty who demonstrate exceptional commitment to supporting the growth, success, and well-being of UW–Madison graduate students. This award highlights faculty who go beyond standard advising expectations and demonstrate exemplary, evidence-based mentoring practices.

Nominations due Feb. 13

CTLM can help you or your department with mentoring student research

Consulting

  • Provide one-on-one support to mentors working through challenges in mentoring student research and creative work (graduate and undergraduate) in the arts, humanities, and social sciences
  • Collaboratively develop short-, medium- and long-term plans for supporting research mentoring in your department or school/college/division

Customized workshops

  • Develop one or multiple co-facilitated workshops based on the Entering Mentoring curriculum, in partnership with faculty/academic staff in host unit
  • Create customized workshops that help your campus unit to address ongoing or emergent topics in mentoring student research, grounded in the scholarship on graduate and undergraduate research training – themes include aligning mentor-mentee expectations, promoting mentee independence and research self-efficacy, mentoring research writing, and more
  • Assist in identifying and onboarding co-facilitators from your department and maintaining a sustainable facilitator pool

Coordination

  • Serve as a clearinghouse for information regarding best practices in research mentoring
  • Offer referrals to other campus units that support research mentoring (e.g. WISCIENCE for STEM-focused support, the Delta Program for graduate student/postdoc-facing support, etc.)
  • Liaise between school/college/divisional leaders to strategize regarding demand and opportunities for research mentoring programming

Meet the program manager

Jeffrey C. Guarneri

Position title: Research Mentoring Program Manager