---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bj Morrison <bj at sdsc.edu> Date: Nov 2, 2006 8:00 PM Subject: ISCB CALL FOR MENTORS: E-mentoring opportunity - just 20 minutes per week To: ISCB Members and Colleagues <members at iscb.org> *CALL FOR MENTORS* Earlier this year ISCB joined as a partner society of MentorNet, the award winning e-mentoring program, to gain access for our student members who could benefit from this type of mentoring. There are currently some ISCB member protégés awaiting a mentor match, and this is where our professional members can directly contribute to our more junior members in an important way. For Mentors, the MentorNet One-on-One Mentoring Programs are a chance to make a big difference in the life of a student in as little as 20 minutes a week. MentorNet seeks science and engineering professionals in industry and government, either currently active, on leave, or retired, to mentor engineering and science community college, undergraduate, and graduate students, who are interested in pursuing a professional future in the fields of engineering and science. MentorNet also seeks tenured faculty members to mentor graduate students, postdocs and untenured faculty pursuing faculty careers. Though mentors volunteer their time to benefit the protégé, they can also find a rewarding experience for themselves. "I hope [my student] is getting as much out of it as I am," is how one MentorNet mentor puts it. Well over 90% of participants would recommend MentorNet's e-mentoring programs to a friend or colleague. Mentoring relationships last 8 months. Because mentors and students communicate entirely by email, they can communicate wherever and whenever they choose. MentorNet's research-based programs have proven effective by providing "real world" information, encouragement, advice, and access to networks for students, and particularly for those underrepresented in engineering and science fields. "My mentor always gives me the encouragement that I need," says one MentorNet student. "Sometimes those few words make a big difference to me." How can you volunteer to be a mentor? 1) Join the MentorNet Community (*http://www.mentornet.net/join*<http://www.mentornet.net/join> ) 2) Follow the One-on-One Mentoring Programs links to create a mentor profile. 3) Be sure to indicate you are an ISCB member for the potential to be matched only with an ISCB protégé How can you sign up as a protégé? 1) Be sure you are a current student/trainee member of ISCB 2) Follow steps one and two above, but select the protégé link instead of the mentor link 3) Upon verification of your membership status you will be eligible a mentor match For more information about MentorNet, please visit their web pages at * www.MentorNet.net* <http://www.MentorNet.net> (please note the .net rather than .com which would lead you to a website hosting and development company) Since 1998, MentorNet has matched more than 17,000 protégés and mentors with strong results. We hope you will join them! MentorNet's sponsors include 3M Foundation, Alcoa Foundation, Agilent Technologies, Argonne National Laboratory, Bechtel Foundation, Cisco Systems, GE Global Research, Google, Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM Corporation, Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Los Alamos National Laboratory, National Science Foundation, Naval Research Laboratory, NVIDIA, Sandia National Laboratories, SAP, Schlumberger, S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation, Symantec, and Texas Instruments. ------------------------------------------------------------ This message sent to you on behalf of: Kevin Karplus karplus at soe.ucsc.edu *http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~karplus*<http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/%7Ekarplus> Member of Board of Directors & Chair of Education Committee, ISCB ------------------------------------------------------------ If you would like to be removed from all future ISCB mailings please write to *admin at iscb.org*<https://webmail.sdsc.edu//0/_top?actioncompose=1&to=admin@iscb.org>with the words "unsubscribe members" in the subject line and type your name as it was registered in the ISCB members database in the body of the text. As the mailing list is updated weekly, you will be unsubscribed within seven days. -- ---rgds George -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://bioinformatics.org/pipermail/bioscys-africa/attachments/20061103/0776ba8a/attachment.html