Race and Gender Differences in Undergraduate Research Mentoring Structures and Research Outcomes.

ABSTRACT: Participating in undergraduate research with mentorship from faculty may be particularly important for ensuring the persistence of women and minority students in science. Yet many life science undergraduates at research universities are mentored by graduate or postdoctoral researchers (i.e., postgraduates). We surveyed a national sample of undergraduate life science researchers about the mentoring structure of their research experiences and the outcomes they realized from participating in research. We observed two common mentoring structures: an open triad with undergraduate-postgraduate and postgraduate-faculty ties but no undergraduate-faculty tie, and a closed triad with ties among all three members. We found that men and underrepresented minority (URM) students are significantly more l

SUBMITTER: Aikens ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5459252 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature