In the inaugural episode of Mentoring Matters we talk about the one mentoring strategy that has had the single biggest impact on our graduate programs.

We are Steph and Mary, best friends and professors in animal science who have spent years trying out ways to become better graduate student mentors. We've made the mistakes, so you don't have to!

In this episode we discuss the benefits of regularly scheduled meetings with graduate students and how such a simple trick revolutionized our programs. We both agree these meetings with our students are time well spent.

We want to hear from you! The question of the week is: what is the single best thing you’ve done to improve your graduate student mentoring?

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