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Back To School With MyNRMN

With over 27,000 members, MyNRMN is a free online mentoring, networking, and professional development platform, as well as a hub for coordinating NRMN events and activities.

Start the school year off right and take your career to the next level. Join MyNRMN to take advantage of programs designed to hone your practices and deepen your connection to a diverse nationwide scientific community. This newsletter will provide you with the tools to find out exactly how you can use MyNRMN for success this academic year.

Back-to-School Webinar

MyNRMN welcomed everyone back to school with a webinar targeted for their success! They learned how to utilize the tools and resources within MyNRMN to help you achieve your goals throughout the year. Additionally, they discovered new courses and features specifically created for their advancement. If you weren’t able to attend the webinar, you can access the slides to discover the shared resources.

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New Features on MyNRMN

My Projects

Searching for new research projects in your area of specialization? Looking for opportunities to collaborate with other researchers or join your first research project? Learn about new research projects and potential opportunities, and share details about your own research using the new MyProjects feature.

Knowledgebase

Looking for guidance on how to make the most of the many tools on MyNRMN? Or how to effectively integrate MyNRMN into your day-to-day workflow? Check out our new KnowledgeBase page where we’ve started adding short guides for MyNRMN members. Have an idea for a guide - let us know!

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Level Up Your Skills with MyCourses

For Grad School Applicants

One of the benefits of joining MyNRMN is access to our course management platform. Whether you want to take a course individually, enroll a group of students as a cohort, or create a new course to offer on the platform, engaging with learning opportunities on MyNRMN has never been easier. Our latest offering is “Applying to Graduate School and Summer Research Experiences.” Intended for undergraduates/mentees, this eight-part series of mini-courses is offered in partnership with the Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) program at California State University, Long Beach.

For Mentees

Mentees will benefit from the two-part Launching Research courses, designed to prepare participants to confidently explore research and acquaint them with skills that they will use throughout the course of their education and career. Students also learn about many ways research can provide new and exciting opportunities.

For Mentors

Mentors can take advantage of two specialized mentor training courses: “Mentoring Undergraduate Students” and “Mentoring Graduate Students, Post Docs & Early Career Faculty.” Both are robust, self directed courses that provide evidence-based training on how to optimize mentoring relationships.

For Everyone

Mentors and mentees alike will benefit from the “Unconscious Bias” course. With enrollment approaching 5,000 participants, the Unconscious Bias course demonstrates MyNRMN’s capacity and commitment to offering significant learning opportunities at scale.

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Find a Mentor or Help a Mentee This Semester

MyMentor

Could you use a bit more hands-on guidance this year? Enroll in MyMentor to engage in one-on-one guided virtual mentoring. This mentoring program takes you through a targeted, culturally responsive mentoring connection to help you develop confidence, independence, and self-efficacy.

Request Mentoring

To be successful, it’s often beneficial to utilize all of your resources, including a network of mentoring! Mentors and mentees alike can grow their mentoring networks with peers, near-peers, and mentors. Use this tool to request the type of mentoring you need from the entire MyNRMN community.

Ask a Mentor

Do you ever have a question or a problem and you’re not sure where to start? MyNRMN’s ‘Ask a Mentor’ tool is your solution! Use this tool to post your question to the entire MyNRMN community so that anyone with the answer can respond.

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Get Ahead of the Networking Game

Connections

As you grow your network within MyNRMN, you’ll be able to start connecting and communicating with a wide range of unique individuals. Access your network through the ‘Connections’ tool to share messages, attend video calls, share files, etc.

Jobs & Internships

Are you looking for a new position or do you have a position to fill? Head over to the MyNRMN ‘Jobs & Internships’ board to check out what’s available and post your own opportunities.

Groups

‘Groups’ is MyNRMN’s most popular feature for a reason! Teams, programs, workgroups, special interest groups, institutions, and more can create groups for discussions, sharing documents, networking, and video calls. Search your interests to find a group to join or start your own!

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Jobs & Internships Board

Go Beyond Your Classes with Professional Development

My CV/Resume

Creating your CV/Resume and keeping it updated can be a daunting task. Use this tool to help you easily curate your CV and share it with others! The ‘My CV/Resume’ tool publishes your CV to a unique URL that can be shared with others and downloaded as a PDF.

My Publications

Enhance your MyNRMN profile by syncing your ORCID iD or downloading your publications from PubMed. This will help others connect with you based on your work as well as help prepare your CV/Resume!

My Calendar

Use the ‘My Calendar’ tool to help you manage your schedule! This tool collects all of your due dates, meetings, and events in MyNRMN and can be synced with your personal and/or institutional calendars.

My Files

MyNRMN has its own document repository for each mentee, mentor, and member! Use this repository to store and share files with others.

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Check out the latest happenings in our community!

ABRCMS 2023

Join a vibrant community of the brightest minds in STEM at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS), taking place, November 15-18 in Phoenix, Arizona. 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. Learn more at https://abrcms.org.

A new leadership and career development program and various funding opportunities—these programs can help you advance your

journey in the STEMM fields.

NIH Loan Repayment Programs Twitter Chat

The NIH Loan Repayment Programs will host a twitter chat on September 6, 2023 at 3:00 PM EST. You’ll hear from the NIH Division of Loan Repayment Director, Matthew Lockhart, LRP Ambassadors, and supporters of the programs. Tune in to learn to how you could receive up to $100,000 in student debt relief!

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Participate in the Communicating Across Difference Research Study!

The NIH Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program Office just announced their latest Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs). ECHO is an extramurally funded program maintained within the Office of the Director at the NIH, with the mission to enhance the health of children for generations to come.

The ECHO Program consists of 69 existing and ongoing observational studies that together form the ECHO Cohort, as well as a pediatric clinical trials network. Research conducted through ECHO focuses on five key pediatric outcomes: pre-, peri- and postnatal outcomes; upper and lower airway health; obesity; neurodevelopment; and positive health, such as a sense of wellbeing.

RFA-OD-23-019: The goal of the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (F32) is to provide opportunities for postdoctoral fellows to study child health outcomes through the secondary analyses of ECHO’s large longitudinal data sets within the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Development Data and Specimen Hub (DASH) repository.

RFA-OD-23-020: The goal of the Dissertation Grant (R36) is to support doctoral candidates studying applicable areas of child health for the completion of their doctoral dissertation research project. The awards resulting from this funding opportunity will provide students working on dissertations the opportunity to access the ECHO data within the DASH repository.

ECHO’s DASH data set integrates deidentified longitudinal data from more than 41,000 participants across the U.S.

Available deidentified data include

Demographic information including race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, and education
Early development data including growth, milestones, physical activity, and sleep
Environmental exposure data including physical, chemical, psychosocial, and natural and built environments
Pregnancy and birth information including maternal diet and physical activity, maternal smoking during pregnancy, weight gain, and delivery outcomes
Data related to public health crises including surveys on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic

NIH encourages applications supporting candidates from diverse backgrounds, including those from underrepresented groups as described in the Notice of NIH's Interest in Diversity (NOT-OD-20-031).

Applications are due by November 1, 2023. Letters of Intent are not required but are requested by October 1, 2023.

To learn more, click here.

Optimization of Data Storage and Utilization for the Sequence Read Archive

The National Institute of General Medical Sciences announced a new notice of special interest (NOT-GM-23-015) that promotes research and development in biomedical computation and technology focused on assessing current SRA data compression and storage strategies, and developing novel SRA compression and/or low-cost formats and tools. Apply here.