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IGEN and our partners are developing and collecting resources to support individuals and institutions that are interested in graduate education.
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Connecting students, advisors, and research groups
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Identifying and Leveraging Community Cultural Wealth in Physics Bridge Programs
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Exploring Careers in National Laboratories: A Resource for Graduate Students and Postdocs in the Physical Sciences
STARTING CONVERSATIONS ABOUT CULTURE IN STEM: A RESEARCH-BASED GUIDE FOR ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS
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Leading from the Middle: Advancing the Practice of Mentorship and Mentorship Education in National Laboratories
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Evaluation Rubric Checklist
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Equity-Minded Mentoring Toolkit
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The Hidden Curriculum in Transitioning to Graduate School
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Rethinking qualifying exams and doctoral candidacy in the physical sciences
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Virtual Journal Club - Article Summary
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Intersectional Privilege Article Summary
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Utilizing Equitable and Inclusive Design Principles to Promote STEM Identity of Community College Transfer Students
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Grappling with barriers in geosciences from the lens of two Latina geoscientists
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Change Management: Teamwork in a Stressed out Society: Recognizing and Managing Task vs. Relationship Conflict
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Virtual Journal Club - Article Summary - Support Structures
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After GRExit: Reducing Bias in Geoscience Graduate Admissions
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Open House Recording
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Dos and Don'ts for Submitting a Successful AGU Bridge Partner Proposal
Mentoring Compacts
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The Inclusive Graduate Network March Meeting 2022 Session Y28
Five reasons graduate programs reject stellar applicants
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Laboratories of the Future: Laboratory Mentorship across all Career Levels and Types
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Systemic Shocks & Systemic Change: What Graduate Education Leaders Can Do
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Educational Pathways for Black Students in Science, Engineering, and Medicine
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IGEN Year 3 Progress - WestEd Evaluation Report Movie
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IGEN Year 3 Progress - WestEd Evaluation Report
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The 'T' Word: Resisting Expectations To Share Trauma In College Essays
Learning in the Wild: Fieldwork, Gender, and the Social Construction of Disciplinary Culture
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Analyzing admissions metrics as predictors of graduate GPA and whether graduate GPA mediates Ph.D. completion
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IGEN News Summer 2021
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New View of Expanding Perspectives in the Geosciences
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Disrupt and demystify the unwritten rules of graduate school
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First-year graduate courses foster inclusion
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2019 ACS Graduate Student Survey Report
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How To Land Your First Job: An Email Guide
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An actionable anti-racism plan for geoscience organizations
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Race and Gender Bias in Internal Medicine Program Director Letters of Recommendation
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Rethinking the Race
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AGU's Ethics Annual Report 2020
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Sell yourself and your science in a compelling personal statement
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Reducing Financial Barriers for Black Students in Science, Engineering, and Medicine: A Workshop
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Events Code of Conduct
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Guidelines for Social Media and Photography
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Equitable Exchange: A Framework for Diversity and Inclusion in the Geosciences
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Supporting mental health and well-being of STEMM graduate students
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Departmental support structures for physics graduate students: Development and psychometric evaluation of a self-report instrument
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INCLUDES Joint Alliances Joint Leadership
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Postdoctoral Hiring & Equity Issues in STEM: Employment Trends, Policy and Research
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ACS Bridge Program makes an impact
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Grad Student Isel Rivera Turns a Difficult Beginning into a Steady Stream of Growth
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IGEN News Winter 2021
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Bridging Physics Talent: Discovering lost capability, building an inclusive landscape
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The Science of Mentorship
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The Death and Life of an Admissions Algorithm
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Diversity in Graduate Mathematical Sciences
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ACS Bridge Fellow Danica Gressel on the Importance of Community and Representation in Grad School
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Better Letters: Equitable Practices
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Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education: 2020 Supplement
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The Asterisk Year: Grades, Admissions, and Equity in a Pandemic
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Ten simple rules for building an antiracist lab
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Georgia Tech Student Opens Up About Pursuing an Advanced Degree as a Vietnamese American
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100 inspiring Hispanic/Latinx scientists in America
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Equity in Science: Representation, Culture, and the Dynamics of Change in Graduate Education
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US Geoscience programmes drop controversial admissions test
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To GRE or not to GRE: FAQ
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Progress Overview: Disciplinary Societies
Communicating with Students about Racial Violence
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IGEN News Summer 2020
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Response to comment on "Typical physics Ph.D. admissions criteria limit access to underrepresented groups but fail to predict doctoral completion"
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#GeoGRExit: Why Geosciences Programs Are Dropping the GRE
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How to Prepare for an Interview and Follow up Gracefully
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Preparing Graduate Admissions & Recruitment for Effects of COVID-19
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Webinar Report: Effects of COVID-19
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IGEN News Spring 2020
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Posselt and Team Author Chapter on Evaluation and Decision-Making in Higher Education
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Posselt Helps Chart the Future of Equity in Astronomy on NASEM Committee
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Pullias Team Addresses Biases and Discrimination Hiding in Letters of Recommendation
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Julie Posselt: System Shocks and Institutional Change
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Genentech Foundation provides $3 million grant to ACS Bridge Project
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Equity in Graduate Admissions
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IGEN News Winter 2020
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Task force recommends US$50-million fund to bring African Americans into physics and astronomy
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Creating our Future: Attracting and Retaining the Best Students from all Backgrounds
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Creating Safe and Inclusive Field Experiences: Responding to Bullying and Harassment
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Practicing Equitable Admissions through Holistic Review
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PhD bridge programmes as engines for access, diversity and inclusion
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AGU's Bridge Program Creates Opportunities for Underrepresented Students
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The 2019 IGEN National Meeting: Connecting the Threads of Graduate Education and Inclusion
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IGEN News Fall 2019
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Higher Education Administration for Social Justice and Equity - Critical Perspectives for Leadership
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Mentoring Could Improve Diversity and Inclusion in STEMM But Needs More Attention in Colleges and Universities, Says New Report, Which Identifies Effective Mentoring Practices
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Balancing Wellness with Work, Life and Academics
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Minority Stress in Academia: Identifying and supporting students in distress
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Using Self-Efficacy to Address Imposter Syndrome
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Creating a USEFUL Individual Development Plan
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A Crucial Conversation: Talking with your mentees about their future
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The Diversity Umbrella: What is Underneath it?
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The Science of Effective Mentorship in STEMM
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Inclusive Graduate Education Network Data
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Advancing inclusion in the Geosciences: An overview of the NSF-GOLD program
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Inclusive Graduate Education Network: Project Overview
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Gender and Racial Bias in Radiology Residency Letters of Recommendation
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Impact of the NSF INCLUDES Alliance Inclusive Graduate Education Network (IGEN)
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ACS Bridge Project: A game changer for the chemical enterprise
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IGEN Quarterly Update - Spring 2019
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Learning across disciplines: Addressing teacher recruitment, career development, and graduate student diversity through partnerships
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Inclusion, Diversity and Innovation
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IGEN Quarterly Update - Fall 2018
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APS Bridge Program: Changing the Face of Physics / IGEN: Bridge Program - TNG
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A Closer Look at Diversity: Understanding the Place of Race Post-Affirmative Action
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APS Bridge Program: Erasing Achievement Gap in Doctoral Education
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NSF INCLUDES Journey to an Alliance Webinars - California Regional Collaborative
Stop Eliminating Perfectly Good Candidates by Asking Them the Wrong Questions
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The Meritocracy Myth of College Admissions
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Graduate Admissions Practice on Diversity and Inclusion Workshop
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Incidental Racialization: Performative Assimilation in Law School by Yung-Yi Diana Pan
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Why meritocracy is a myth in college admissions
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IGEN Quarterly Update - Winter 2019
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Framing Diversity: Examining the Place of Race in Institutional Policy and Practice Post-Affirmative Action
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Optimizing Your Mentoring Relationships: Building a Mentoring Network
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The Privileged Poor
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Bridge to success and inclusivity
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The GRE Fails to Identify Students that will Graduate and Hurts Diversity, New Study Finds
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US graduate entry exams not a predictor of PhD success, says study
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The GRE fails to identify students that will graduate and hurts diversity, new study finds RIT researchers say the GRE doesn't predict student success as effectively as presumed
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To GRE or not to GRE
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Typical physics Ph.D. admissions criteria limit access to underrepresented groups but fail to predict doctoral completion
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Misaligned Visions for Improving Graduate Diversity: Student Characteristics vs. Systemic/Cultural Factors
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Burdens and benefits of diversity work: emotion management in STEM doctoral students
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Having Culturally Sensitive Mentoring Conversations: Faculty Session
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Mental Health in Graduate Education: What Faculty, Friends, and Family Can Do
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Culturally Aware Mentoring
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INCLUDES Alliance: The Inclusive Graduate Education Network
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Key Strategies for Mentoring: Part 2
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Key Strategies for Mentoring: Part I
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Optimizing Your Mentoring Relationship Roundtable | Tufts University - Graduate Programs
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ACS receives $2.3 million grant to help make graduate education more inclusive
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IGEN Takes the APS Bridge Program to the Next Level
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AGU Joins Partnership to Build Greater Diversity and Inclusion in the Physical Sciences
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Hope prof receives grant to bolster physical science enrollment
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What NSF's new diversity grants say about attempts to help minority students
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RIT wins collaborative NSF award to improve STEM ecosystem
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US societies join forces in $10m drive to tackle diversity
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ACS part of new alliance to bolster underrepresented students in physical sciences
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APS Helps Form the Inclusive Graduate Education Network
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Catherine Mader Working with National Effort to Bolster Underrepresented Students in Physical Sciences Graduate Programs
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Network forms to bolster equity in STEM graduate education
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Congratulations to @WestEd partners in the #NSFINCLUDES Alliance
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NSF INCLUDES takes major step forward with new awards | NSF - National Science Foundation
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#NSFINCLUDES Alliance: Inclusive Graduate Education Network (IGEN) awarded $10M to boost opps for underrepresented students in grad physical science programs.
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AAS Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion in Astronomy Graduate Education
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It's Time for the Talk: Opinion
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The gender gap in science: How long until women are equally represented?
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Identifying barriers to ethnic/racial minority students' participation in graduate physics
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Indigenous Knowledge and Geoscience on the Flathead Indian Reservation, Northwest Montana: Implications for Place-Based and Culturally Congruent Education
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What is the relationship between emotional intelligence and dental student clinical performance?
2023 Great Questions to ask during the Interview Process
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AGU Ethics and Equity Center
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AGU Pathfinder: Learn and Develop
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APS Bridge Program Induction Manual
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APS Bridge Program Key Components
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Bait and Switch: Representation, Climate, and Tensions of Diversity Work in Graduate Education
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Book Discussion Guide | Equity in Science: Representation, Culture, & the Dynamics of Change in Graduate Education
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ChemIDP: ACS's Career Planning Tool
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Connection First
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Considerations for Reference Letter Writers
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ENHANCE YOUR MENTORSHIP PRACTICE: NATIONAL and LOCAL Resources
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Equity in Graduate Education Curated Library
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Equity in Graduate Education Virtual Journal Club
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Facilitator Training for Admissions Workshops
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Fostering Well-being
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Fundamentals: Equity in Graduate Admissions
Funding Resources & Ideas guide from SACNAS
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The GENDER GAP in Academic Publishing - A Visualization
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Getting Ready For Advanced Degrees (GRAD) Lab
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Graduate & Postdoctoral Chemist
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The Graduate Adviser - Monthly Advice Column
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Graduate School Reality Check
Great Questions to ask during the Interview Process
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IGEN Year 5 Progress - WestEd Evaluation Report Faculty Infographic
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IGEN Year 5 Progress - WestEd Evaluation Report Overall Infographic
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IGEN Year 5 Progress - WestEd Evaluation Report Student Infographic
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Kognito
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Learn to Implement Mentor Training
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Managing Mentoring Relationships Curricula and Training: Mentoring Up
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Mentee Curricula and Training: Entering Research
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Mentor Curricula and Training: Entering Mentoring
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Mentor Mapping Exercise
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Metrics First, Diversity Later? Making the Short List and Getting Admitted to Physics PhD Programs
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myIDP: Individual Development Plan
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Open House Presentation - 2022
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ORISE Featurecast Interview-Melissa McDaniels
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Outcomes Report
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Pathways To Science Resource Toolbox
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Planning for Graduate Work
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Redefining Merit Through New Routines: Holistic Admissions Policy Implementation in Graduate Education
Resources for supporting grad student wellbeing
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Trust Networks: A New Perspective on Pedigree and the Ambiguities of Admissions
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