Mentoring
Mentoring Memos
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.
- 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