MentorNet

The Women in Science Project (WISP) encourages Dartmouth alumni/ae in engineering, scientific and/or technical professions in industry and/or academia to support science and engineering students by signing on as an online mentor with MentorNet, the E-mentoring Network for Diversity in Engineering and Science.

WISP's pilot e-mentoring program was the foundation for MentorNet, which has seen exponential growth since its national launch in February 1998. Since MentorNet began in 1998, 240 Dartmouth College students and postdocs have been matched through MentorNet's One-on-One program. In addition, 170 Dartmouth alumni/ae have participated as mentors and 19 Dartmouth students have been matched with a Dartmouth alum. Since the Academic e-mentoring program began in 2003-2004, 4 faculty members from Dartmouth have participated as mentors.

To apply as a mentor, please read MentorNet's "Call for Mentors" below or go to the MentorNet Community. Sign in and follow the link for the One-on-One Mentoring Program.

Thank you.

Kathy Scott Weaver
Assistant Director, Women in Science Project
Dartmouth College

Call For Mentors

E-mentor a student from your alma mater — just 20 minutes per week!

The MentorNet One-on-One Mentoring Programs are a chance to make a big difference in the life of someone else, while spending as little as 20 minutes a week using email. You can even be matched with a student from your own alma mater!

MentorNet's One-on-One Mentoring Programs pair motivated student protégés, especially but not exclusively women and underrepresented minorities, studying engineering and science with female or male professional scientists and engineers for one-on-one, email-based mentoring (e-mentoring) relationships.

Our flagship Industry E-Mentoring Program is for proteges interested in working in industry or at a government laboratory or agency, while our Academic Career E-Mentoring Program is for graduate students, postdocs, and untenured faculty pursuing faculty careers.

The program has proven effective by providing "real world" information, encouragement, advice, and access to networks that are otherwise often unavailable to those underrepresented in the fields of engineering and science. This is why more than 90% of participants would recommend MentorNet's e-mentoring programs to a friend or colleague.

How can you volunteer to be a mentor?

1. Join the MentorNet Community.
2. Follow the One-on-One Mentoring Programs links to create a mentor profile.

Since 1998, MentorNet has matched more than 25,000 protégés and mentors with strong results. We hope you will join them!

For more information, please go to www.MentorNet.net.

Major MentorNet sponsors have included:*

3M • Alcoa Foundation • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation • AT&T Foundation • Atlantic Philanthropies • Cisco Systems • Engineering Information Foundation • Ford Motor Company • GE Foundation • Google • Guidant • HP • IBM • Intel Foundation • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory • Lockheed Martin Space Systems • Los Alamos National Laboratory • Microsoft • National Science Foundation • Naval Research Laboratory • S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation • Sandia National Laboratories • SAP • Schlumberger • Symantec • Texaco • Texas Instruments • U.S. Department of Education (FIPSE) • U.S. Department of Transportation • WEPAN

*For a complete list of current sponsors, visit www.MentorNet.net