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Launching Research Part 1: Laboratory Readiness



This course is divided into three modules. The first module introduces the user to research, provides guidelines for mentor and mentee responsibilities, and discusses the development of a professional image. The second module addresses research compliance including the protection of human subjects, the welfare of laboratory animals, and guidance for developing standard operating procedures. The third module covers research ethics including conflicts of interest, article perspectives, research articles, and provides instruction for creating and maintaining a laboratory notebook.



Launching Research, Part 2: Tools for Organization and Investigation.


The purpose of this course is to inspire students to confidently explore research and acquaint them with skills they will use throughout their education and career. The purpose is also to introduce the concept that research can provide new and exciting opportunities.

This course is divided into three modules. The first module introduces the user to data gathering, scientific and engineering methods, and data management and practices. The second module addresses the SWOT analysis, collaboration, research misconduct, and citation /reference management. The third module covers authorship and publication, theses and dissertations, scientific meetings, and intellectual property (patents and other IP).


Unconscious Bias Course


The Unconscious Bias Course will help you address your personal unconscious bias, teach you about microaggressions, provide a solutions toolkit, develop your self-awareness, and discuss bias and disparities in medicine and healthcare. 



If you are a faculty, PI, administrator, etc. and would like to have your students/mentees take the course, we can help you create your own cohort/group and start enrollment. Email us at info@nrmnet.net to get started!

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Conferences 

This November, the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS) returns as an in-person event! Through cutting-edge scientific sessions in 12 scientific disciplines and interactive professional development sessions covering topics like career pathways, curriculum development, and more, ABRCMS delivers timely and relevant content for students and non-students in STEM fields to learn, connect and share. As one of the largest communities for underrepresented minorities in STEM, ABRCMS is the go-to conference for scientific and professional development.


If you will be attending ABRCMS this year, please visit us at booth number 523. Hope to see you there!

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Annually focuses on professional and academic development for Indigenous peoples of North America and the Pacific Islands in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). This conference also includes one of the LARGEST college and career fair in the United States.


If you are attending AISES, please visit us at booth number 117. Hope to see you there!

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The largest multidisciplinary and multicultural STEM diversity event in the country, the SACNAS conference is a gathering which serves to equip, empower, and energize participants for their academic and professional paths in STEM. Learn more about SACNAS and to register HERE!


If you are attending SACNAS this year, please visit us at booth number 310. Hope to see you there!

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Blogs Posts

Starting Your New Academic Year with Mentorship


Whether you’re crafting your syllabus or getting organized for your classes, the upcoming academic year is a time for learning new ideas, making new connections, and experiencing professional development. 


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Welcome back to the school year! On behalf of the NRMN team, we hope you all had an incredible, relaxing summer. We understand you are ready to get back into the swing of things, so we decided to retouch some essential aspects of MyNRMN. Below you will find a summary of the NRMN Points Structure and where New Users Should Start navigating the platform. 

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MyMentor Allows You to:



  • Find a partner based on our matching algorithm, your desired search criteria, or let us find a mentoring partner for you


  • Explore a long-term mentoring connection, facilitated by guided prompts


  • Create and work toward accomplishing your personal goals


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NRMN is hiring for a Virtual Community Coordinator. Interested in applying?




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Shadow mentoring: a cost-benefit review for reform


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Mentoring Doesn’t Need To Be A Trial And Error Practice

Mentoring as an Important Force for the Future of Women in Science

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Re-validation of the mentoring competency assessment to evaluate skills of research mentors: the MCA-21

How Clarice Phelps Put Her Mark On The Periodic Table


A step-by-step guide for mentors to facilitate team building and communication in virtual teams


NRMN is excited to share publications

from our U01s:

Comparing the Outcomes of Face-to-Face and Synchronous Online Research Mentor Training Using Propensity Score Matching


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Implementation of an unconscious bias course for the National Research Mentoring Network

Evaluation of a Culturally Responsive Mentorship Education Program for the Advisers of Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam Program Graduate Students


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Variations of a group coaching intervention to support early-career biomedical researchers in Grant proposal development: a pragmatic, four-arm, group-randomized trial

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A system-wide health sciences faculty mentor training program is associated with improved effective mentoring and institutional climate.

Language, Identity, and Becoming a Scientist

Enhancing Research Mentors’ Cultural Awareness in STEM: A Mentor Training Intervention

Read publications funded by NRMN and additional mentoring resources on the NRMN Publications page!

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Mentoring Matters—But What, Exactly, Does It Entail?


How often have you heard the terms mentor, mentoring, or mentorship? These words are bandied about the workplace and academia with a vague sense that they matter—and indeed mentoring does—but without a clear sense of what's involved.


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Don’t Let Mentoring Burn You Out


Mentoring is undoubtedly a high-impact and high-stakes relationship. Mentors give their time, attention, and resources to develop others. Usually a volunteer activity, mentorship goes above and beyond a person’s formal job requirements. But when a mentor is well-intended but too depleted to deliver essential mentor functions as a consequence of burnout, the result is marginal mentoring: dysfunctional or disengaged mentoring that is no longer of value.


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NINDS's Building Up the Nerve

S3E7: Structural interventions around mentoring


In the last episode of the season, we focus on structural interventions around mentoring. Mentorship doesn’t happen in a vacuum—what can program directors, department chairs, and other institutional leaders do to create an environment where supportive mentorship thrives?


Listen to the podcast here.

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Check the NRMN Jobs & Internships Board for the Latest Opportunities:


  • NRMN Virtual Community Coordinator
  • Calling AI/ML and Health Equity Mentors to Join the AIM-AHEAD Consortium
  • Senior Research Associate (Data Analyst Health Services)
  • Program Manager, Biomedical Informatics (Remote Schedule Optional)
  • Director Of Research Mentor and Mentee Education
  • Associate Director Research and Training Programs
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship Opening Synthetic Medicinal Chemistry and Preclinical Drug Discovery


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NRMN Editorial Committee




Maryann Maayeh, Editor

Damaris Javier, MA, Editorial Staff

Lisette Serrano, Editorial Staff

If you have any questions or need any assistance, please email us at info@nrmnet.net. We'd love to hear from you!


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