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For those attending VSS 2026, </div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This is a reminder that if you are interested in participating in Mentoring Envisioned - Insights at VSS 2026, please complete the
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</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">April 30th</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The goal of Mentoring Envisioned is to develop a community that supports near-peer mentoring at VSS and beyond. Near-peer mentoring refers to relationships built within and across trainees of varying levels of experience (e.g.,
graduate students mentoring undergraduate students; advanced graduate students mentoring early graduate students; postdocs mentoring advanced graduate students; early faculty mentoring postdocs etc.). Anyone has potential to fill a role as a mentor for community
members junior to them, and to be a mentee of community members more senior. Unsure what to discuss with a near-peer mentor? Check out our tips sheet
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Here’s how Mentoring Envisioned - Insights works:</div>
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If you are interested in either being a mentor or a mentee (or both!), please complete this
<span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://forms.gle/wc5NZcbvkR7bRSdd8" id="OWA58d9191b-0c26-44de-4045-00f1daa33dbb" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><u>interest form</u></a></span> by
<span style="font-weight: 700;">April 30th</span>.</div>
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We will match mentors/mentees in pairs (small groups) and put them in contact with each other before VSS.</div>
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Each pair/group will coordinate a time to meet up for a 1 hour chat at VSS. </div>
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After VSS, we will ask each participant to fill out a short survey on how the meeting went.</div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">That's it! If you are interested, please fill out the
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</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">April 30th</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. Additional details can be found at the top of the form. </span></div>
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See you at VSS!</div>
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-Charisse Pickron, Karen Schloss, Michael Grubb, Alex White, and Alejandro Lleras</div>
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Karen B. Schloss, PhD (she/her)</div>
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Associate Professor of Psychology</div>
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Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies </div>
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Wisconsin Institute for Discovery</div>
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University of Wisconsin-Madison</div>
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<a href="https://schlosslab.discovery.wisc.edu/" id="OWAa7fa0f4c-8d89-32fa-3e9d-08881bb1ae09" class="OWAAutoLink">https://schlosslab.discovery.wisc.edu/</a></div>
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