Program Overview
The Zoology Peer Mentoring Program is an optional program where new graduate students (mentees) are paired with current graduate students (mentors) to ease the transition to grad student life for incoming students and to foster social connections and a greater sense of community within the department.
This program will be structured as regular informal meetings among small groups of Zoology graduate students, meeting about once per month in their mentee/mentor groups, with one larger event each term (in the Winter Session) with everyone in the program. Some funding will be provided to each group for their small gatherings (eg. coffee, food, or activities).
Group numbers will fluctuate depending on the number of interested students but generally we try to assign two mentors to three mentees.
Invitations to the program will be emailed to students at the beginning of each term but you can contact the Zoology Graduate Program (zool.gradprgm@ubc.ca) to see how you can get involved!