Conference Schedule

Collect your program, swag and name badge - then settle in at a table in Town Square for a networking breakfast. 

Short welcome program at 8:45 am.

• Panel discussion:  Salient Practices for Mentoring Undergraduate Researchers:  Insights from Award-Winning Faculty Mentors (Troost Room)

• Fireside chat: A Perspective on Graduate Mentorship after 16 Ph.D. Students and 25 Years on Faculty (Paseo Room)

• Panel discussion: Mentoring Neurodivergent Students and Students with Disabilities: Perspectives and Strategies (Brookside Room)

• Fireside chat: Building a Better Model: SOAR Research Mentoring (Kansas City Room)

• Decompression space (Loose Park Room)

Full description of Session One

• Fireside chat: Mentoring student mentors in biology and chemistry (Paseo Room)

• Panel presentation: At the Intersection of Mentorship and Community Engagement (Kansas City Room)

• Fireside chat: Mentorship and the spirit of inquiry: Life around a faculty-led writing group (Troost Room)

• Fireside chat: Strengthening learning motivation through mentoring: Dialogic exchanges and personal insights (Brush Creek Room)

• Decompression space (Loose Park Room)

Full description of Session Two

Keynote by Beth Dolan, dean, College of Health, Lehigh University (Town Square)

Keynote Bio

• Networking lunch (Town Square)

• Decompression space (Loose Park Room)

• Fireside chat (45 minutes | 1:00 pm): New tool for mentoring writers (Brookside Room)

• Fireside chat (45 minutes | 1:45 pm): Building a Better Model: SOAR Research Mentoring (rerun from 9:00 am; Brookside Room)

• Workshop (90 minutes): Building mentoring relationships for academic leaders (Brush Creek Room)

• Workshop (90 minutes): Mentoring for Creative Breakthroughs: Guiding Problem-Solving through Creative Thinking Styles (Paseo Room)

• Workshop (90 minutes): Using the Individual Development Plan (IDP) As an Effective Mentoring Tool (Kansas City Room)

• Workshop (3 hours): Become a Trained Peer Reviewer (Troost Room)

• Decompression space (Loose Park Room)

Full description of Workshops

Conference closing - raffle drawing, reflection session and conference evaluation (Town Square)

Afternoon snack provided.

Raffle Prizes