Training for Research Mentors

COMING IN FALL 2025! Mentormaker is the Purdue University adaptation of Entering Mentoring maintained by the Purdue University Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR). Mentormaker training is for Purdue faculty, staff, post docs, or graduate students who mentor undergraduate students in research experiences. Learn more about the training tracks to determine if Mentormaker is right for you.

While Mentormaker uses "undergraduate research mentoring" contexts in training activities and documents, anyone who wishes to experience this training, and adapt/apply it to other mentoring circumstances (such as faculty-to-student, faculty-to-graduate, etc.), is also welcome!

Related training options include:

• For Graduate Students:
  • Future Mentors Program, for graduate students mentoring undergraduates in STEM research.
  • Additional workshops and resources from the sponsored facilitated by the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars.
• For Undergraduate Students:
  • ILS49500: Peer Mentorship Training
• For any Purdue Employee/Student:
  • LinkedIn Learning (Access through SuccessFactors)
  • Sage Research Methods (Access through Purdue Libraries)

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Acknowledgements

Some Mentormaker materials are adapted from (or extracted from) Pfund, C., Branchaw, J., & Handelsman, J. (2015). Entering Mentoring (2nd ed.). W. H. Freeman & Co. These materials may be used for instructional, educational, and administrative purposes at your own institution/ organization. © The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System (the “Regents”), on behalf of CIMER. For more information about Entering Mentoring, visit: https://cimerproject.org 

Original sources for additional resources are all cited within training documents.