Conversations in Graduate Education
This series offers seminars on special topics in graduate education for Stony Brook's graduate community.
Spring 2026
Empowered Mentorship: Practical Strategies for Responsive Mentoring Relationships in the Current Moment
Monday, March 2, 2026 at 12:30 pm via Zoom
Mentorship is a catalyzing and intentional strategy for talent development. If you are mentoring someone in recent years who is a trainee or early career professional, you may face some challenges in your mentoring relationships navigating changing social and institutional contexts. In this talk, Dr. Byars-Winston will highlight evidence for effective mentorship in STEMM fields and review practical applications for empowering mentoring relationships, especially in the current times.
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Dr. Angela Byars-Winston Dr. Angela Byars-Winston is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW). She conducts diversity science research on cultural and organizational influences shaping the career development and effective mentorship of college students and early career faculty in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM). She was Principal Investigator in the NIH National Research Mentoring Network leading the Culturally Aware Mentorship (CAM) initiative. She chaired the National Academies of Sciences’ 2019 consensus study report, The Science of Effective Mentorship in STEMM, and was an appointed member of the NIH National Advisory General Medical Sciences Council from 2021-2024. Dr. Byars-Winston’s work has been recognized by the White House under President Obama’s administration and she is the 2022 recipient of the Outstanding Educator for Innovation in Mentorship Research Award from the Association of Clinical and Translational Science. She is the Chair of the UW Institute for Diversity Science where she hosts the Diversity Science Podcast. |