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Mentor Memos provide practical tips for navigating graduate studies successfully. Memos focus especially on issues that UW graduate students may not learn about from other sources. We hope you like Mentor Memos and invite your participation in this ongoing, grassroots project.

What do you think of Mentor Memos? Are there other topics that would help you? Would you like to be considered for writing a Mentor Memo?  For more information and to suggest topics, contact Graduate School Communications Director George Martinez, gam6@u.washington.edu or 206-685-6793.

Mentor Memos (.pdf files)

• Presenting Your Research at Academic Conferences
• Preparing for Your Career
• Collaborating and Co-Authoring
• Maximizing the Benefit of Department Colloquia
• Turning Your Dissertation into a Book
• Succeeding in a Graduate Seminar
• Building Your Network: Finding Mentors
• Creating a Research Agenda
• Getting Started in a Lab
• Working with Your Temporary Adviser
• Time Management
• Managing Large Writing Projects
• The Literature Review
• Intentional Career Planning
• Forming an Interdisciplinary Dissertation Committee
• Writing Your Individual Development Plan
• Review of Graduate Student Research by the Institutional Review Board (IRB)
• Academic Job Offer and Salary Negotiations
• Communicating with the News Media
• Staying Motivated in Graduate School
• What You Need to know about Human Subjects and Animal Subjects for Dissertations
• Teaching Options for Graduate Students and Post-Docs
• Finding and Acting on Your Unique Strengths
• Working the Room

Graduate School Resources

• Mentoring: How to Obtain the Mentoring You Need
   - A Graduate Student Guide (pdf)
• Mentoring: How to Mentor Graduate Students
   - A Faculty Guide (pdf)
• Preparing Future Faculty
• Marsha L. Landolt Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award
  • Who is Marsha L. Landolt?
• Center for Instructional Development and Research (CIDR)
• Guidelines for Good Practice in Graduate Education
• Graduate Opportunities & Minority Achievement Program (GO-MAP)
• Graduate Faculty Locator

• Woodrow Wilson Foundation's Responsive PhD initiative
• Occupational Outlook Handbook of the US National Bureau
• Re-envisioning the PhD
• Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate

UW Campus Resources

• Associated Students of the University of Washington (ASUW) Diversity Commissions

• Career Center

• Center for Social Science Computation and Research (CSSCR)

• Childcare Assistance Program for Students

• Computer Training

• Curriculum Transformation Project (CTP)

• Disabled Student Services (DSS)

• Do-It

• Ethnic Cultural Center

• Family Housing, Student Services Office

• Foundation for International Understanding Through Students (FIUTS)

• Grants and Funding Information Service (GFIS)

• Housing and Food Services

• Human Subjects

• International Services Office

• Office of Student Financial Aid

• Q Center

• Women's Center, Re-entry Program

• Work/Life Office

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