FUN Mentoring Network
The FUN Mentoring Network is a program to support faculty who engage undergraduates in neuroscience classrooms and laboratories at all levels, and in a diversity of careers and institutions. We encourage applications from all FUN members, including those from all institutional and ethnic backgrounds. Members holding tenured, tenure-track, non-tenure-track, part-time, adjunct, non-academic, and other positions are invited to apply to become mentors and mentees.
One-on-One Remote Mentoring Program 2024
The FUN One–on–One Remote Mentoring program is designed to pair a later-career FUN faculty member (mentor) with an early-career FUN faculty member (mentee), to help support our faculty in an informal space that augments the support early-career faculty may receive in their home unit. We hope that mentee – mentor pairs will use these remote (e.g., Zoom) one-on-one mentoring sessions to provide mentees with the information, advice, and support they need.
We envision these remote mentoring sessions as ~1-hour/monthly meetings for this academic year, driven by the unique needs, experiences, and expertise of the mentee and mentor.
If you are interested in becoming a mentee OR mentor for this remote one–on–one program, please fill out the appropriate application below. We’ll do our best to accommodate the preferences and expertise of our mentees and mentors in our matching process and will get back to you as soon as possible. We look forward to hearing from you!
Mentee Application Link
Mentor Application Link
For any questions, comments, or concerns, please contact Marc Nahmani. Thank you!
In Person Mentoring Program 2024
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.
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 to participate in this program!)
- 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 Dave Jewett . Please put FUN In-Person Mentee in the subject line.
Preferred contact would be by or before July 8th so 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 Dave.
If you see this after July 8th and are interested, feel free to contact Dave and for more information about 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.