Mentor's Guide to SRE
May 2023 Update (New 2024 Info Coming Soon!)
If your Trainee has decided to remain in Portland for the summer, the first step is to complete the following agreements:
OHSU SRE Trainee Agreement (for your Trainee to fill out and sign)
OHSU SRE RLC Agreement (for you to fill out and sign)
Please read these documents carefully, and treat them like a contract for your Summer Research Experience. BOTH agreements are due back to urise@pdx.edu by 5/15/2023.
About URISE's Summer Research Experience
One of the unique features of the URISE program at PSU is the opportunity for Trainees to spend their second summer in the program at a research-intensive institution participating in a Summer Research Experience. This institution could be OHSU or another research-intensive institution. As a URISE Research or Career Mentor, we are hoping you will work closely with your URISE Trainee to identify summer programs that align with your Trainee’s research interests.
This opportunity to go away to another institution will benefit your student as they experience travel and expand their knowledge of research, and it also has the potential to benefit your own lab as the Trainee receives specialized training in research skills applicable to your lab’s work.
Please note - your Trainee may stay in your lab at OHSU if that is the best fit for them. OHSU counts as a research-intensive institution.
Requirements
Program must be at a research intensive university or institute:
Public or private universities
Research Institutes (Scripps Research)
Federal Agencies (NIH, NASA, NSF, etc)
Program must be at least 8 weeks long
Dates: June - September 2022 (dates will vary by program)
Remaining in their OHSU RLC is an option
NIH Guidance: U-RISE trainees are required to spend at least one summer, typically for a 10-week period, in a research training experience at a research-intensive institution. Preferable sites are institutions that offer NIH T32 predoctoral programs. To assist with this interaction, NIGMS maintains a list of NIGMS-funded T32 programs. Other NIH Institutes and Centers also support the T32 predoctoral training program in various research areas.
For a query search to identify such programs, visit the NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools (RePORT) website.
Funding
URISE Trainees participating in the SRE receive a per diem and travel funds. Travel funds are available for travel to and from the host site. Trainees have access to the following funds:
Up to $3,000 in per diem funds
Up to $500 in travel funds
Ways you can help
At your next meeting with your Trainee, discuss next summer’s Summer Research Experience and the opportunity for your Trainee to go away to another institution. If you participated in a program like this as an undergraduate, share your experience and how it benefited you.
Discuss your Trainee’s research interest and whether they would like to go away to another institution or remain at OHSU.
Your Trainee will attend ABRCMS from November 9-12, 2022, and we invite you to look at the list of Exhibitors and recommend certain Exhibitors to your Trainee to make connections with.
Debrief ABRCMS with your Trainee - learn about the programs they met with and discuss the programs they are thinking about reaching out to. Encourage your Trainee to reach out right away to the program(s) they are interested in to make a post-conference connection.
Check in regularly with your Trainee about their progress applying and selecting a summer program.
Connect with your Trainee's Career or Research Mentor to form a network of support. You can find information about your Trainee, including their Research and Career Mentors, here.
Helping Your Trainee Find a Placement
Please strongly encourage your students to pursue formal summer research programs, rather than placement in an individual lab that has no summer program component. We believe formal summer programs will set our students up for much greater success. They are also logistically MUCH easier for the program team to implement.
Placement Search Resources:
The Leadership Alliance - Students submit one application for up to three summer programs. We strongly encourage all students to submit one application through The Leadership Alliance.
Your own networks - researchers you are collaborating with on your RLC’s research, or projects similar to yours
Timeline
Fall 2022
Coach your Trainee on identifying and prioritizing summer research opportunities.
Help your Trainee narrow down their options
Check in regularly with your Trainee on their progress identifying program options
The program’s goal is that Trainees identify close to 10 options
Winter 2023
Check in with your Trainee on their progress submitting applications for summer programs
Encourage them to submit applications early
Coach your Trainee on making decisions, if they have more than one opportunity
Spring 2023
Help your Trainee decide which program is best - whether it’s going to another institution or remaining in your RLC for their Summer Research Experience.
[Research Mentors] If they choose to go away for the summer, prepare for them to be away by setting up a timeline to wrap up projects.
[Research Mentors] If they choose to remain for the summer, prepare summer projects for them to work on
Fall 2023
[Research Mentors] If your Trainee went away for the summer, they will rejoin your RLC when Fall 2022 kicks off in September. Welcome them back.
Questions?
Contact Caitlyn Beals (cbeals@pdx.edu) with any questions about the details and logistics of the Summer Research Experience.