The Researcher Development Program (RDP) seeks to expand access to academic networks that dually support graduate students’ personal and professional well-being and scholarly development.
The RDP fulfills its mission by:
- Striving to create accessible, inclusive, and humanizing professional development spaces
- Promoting sustained, professionally enriching collaboration between faculty members and graduate students
- Providing research, writing, presentation, and publication opportunities aligned with participants’ academic and professional goals
- Promoting opportunities for faculty members to hone their mentorship skills.
We kick off this academic year with 14 mentors and 17 mentees! Currently, the RDP Planning Committee is supporting mentors and mentees as they begin their semester, setting their goals for the year, and planning how they will develop their final projects. Throughout their experience, we intend to support their relationship building, creativity, and project development. Here we provide a list of the mentor-mentee matches for the 2021-2022 cohort.
| Mentee
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University Affiliation
|
Mentor
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| Qiyang Zhang
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The Johns Hopkins University
|
Martin Scanlan, Boston College
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| Valeria Orue Dominguez
|
University of California, Riverside
|
Barbara L. Pazey, University of North Texas
|
| Mary-Louise (Molly) Leger
|
University of California, Los Angeles
|
Kristy Cooper Stein, Michigan State University
|
| Jon Delperdang
|
Delta State University
|
Julia Mahfouz, University of Colorado-Denver
|
| Lihuan Chen
|
The University of Hong Kong
|
Kimberly Kappler Hewitt, University of North Carolina Greensboro
|
| Ashley Shen
|
The Johns Hopkins University
|
Khalid Arar, Texas State University
|
| Rubén Antonio Sánchez Hernández
|
The University of Hong Kong
|
W. Kyle Ingle, University of Louisville
|
| Ann DeChenne
|
Walden University
|
Kristy Cooper Stein, Michigan State University
|
| Joy Rushing
|
Auburn University
|
Emily Hodge, Montclair State University
|
| Hilario Benzon
|
University of Colorado Denver
|
David G. Martinez, University of South Carolina
|
| Fatema Al Attar
|
United Arab Emirates University UAEU
|
Khalid Arar, Texas State University
|
| John McCandless
|
Auburn University
|
Abdelaziz Zohri, Hassan First University of Settat
|
| Charlene Evans-Smith, EdD
|
The George Washington University
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Meredith Wronowski, University of Dayton
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| Noor Doukmak
|
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Amanda J. Cordova, North Dakota State University
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| Donna Lyons
|
University of Central Florida
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Katilin Anderson, Lehigh University
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| Rhonda Humphries
|
The George Washington University
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Charles Lowery, Ohio University
|
| Yichuan Zhao
|
The Johns Hopkins University
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Emily Hodge, Montclair State University
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