The Impact of Postgraduate Mentors on Undergraduate Researcher Gains.

ABSTRACT: Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) undergraduate researchers (UGRs) work under the direction of faculty mentors. Many also work with postgraduate mentors, either graduate students or postdoctoral personnel, but little is known about how these mentors shape student experiences. Using original survey data from 516 participants across 78 National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates Sites in Summer 2022, we find that 44% of students had a postgraduate mentor. Our multivariable multilevel analyses of UGRs with postgraduate mentors (n = 229) revealed that having a different gender identity than one's postgraduate mentor, having a competent postgraduate mentor, having a graduate student mentor, and spending more than 26 weekly hours with a postg

SUBMITTER: Chavez Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12286637 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature