[FUN_Mail] In-Person 2004 FUN In-Person Mentor Network: Deadline Approaching

[David Jewett]

Dear FUN Friends,

We are about a week away from the start of registration for the 2024 Society for Neuroscience (SfN) conference. We seek more mentees (pre-faculty, early career, and mid-career including but not limited to tenured, tenure-track, non-tenure track, adjunct, or part-time) for the In-Person 2004 FUN Mentor Network to be held the day before SfN begins.

We currently do not have enough mentees for a group, and we seek to change that before the opening of registration for the SfN meeting so appropriate travel plans may be made.

The event is scheduled for Friday, October 4th from 1-5 PM on the downtown campus of DePaul University. DePaul is the co-sponsor for the In-Person mentoring event in 2024.

Modeled after other successful mentoring networks, the FUN In-Person mentor network uses a coaching model to help mentees develop skills for careers within and outside academia. Previous versions of the in-person network have discussed topics including: creating  and refining courses/laboratories, student assessment, program development, work-life balance, applying for faculty positions, transitions from early career to mid/later career, developing/maintaining a research program, challenges in the classroom, etc.  Mentees will benefit from the guidance of facilitators from the National Institute of Mental Health and the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, the mentor(s), and peers within the mentoring network.

Requirements for Mentees:
FUN Membership (non-members may become members easily).
Attendance at the In-person event on October 4th
Participation in ~monthly videoconference meetings.

If you would like to participate in the program as a mentee, please email me @: jewettd at uwec.edu<mailto:jewettd at uwec.edu>.

Preferred contact would be by or before July 8th so appropriate travel plans can be made for attendees prior the opening of SfN registration for the 2024 annual meeting.

If you are not a potential mentee, but know someone who may benefit from the program, please forward this information as you deem appropriate or contact me.

If you see this after July 8th and are interested, feel free to contact me and I’ll share the status of the 2024 In-Person Mentoring Program.

For those interested in the FUN Virtual One-on-one Mentoring, a separate call for the 2024 version will be coming soon.

Thanks for reading, and please contact me directly if you have any questions or comments about the program.

Dave Jewett
FUN In-Person Mentor Network

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