Graduate Mentors
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Our peer mentoring program exists to help early graduate students succeed in their transition to graduate school, navigate department resources, and provide a network of mentorship that will grow and flourish throughout the student’s career. Providing a systematic support network of peers reduces the challenge of adjusting to a difficult program in a new location. This built-in community provides an additional space to build the personal and professional relationships that make our department a collaborative, welcoming, and inclusive space.  

This initiative gives our graduate students an opportunity to learn many of the non-academic skills associated with being a successful physicist. Mentorship experience prepares students to be both competent and compassionate leaders as they enter academia or the workforce.

Objectives of the program

  • Put first- and second-year graduate students into cohorts with upper-level graduate students, which will provide guidance and introduce them to resources within the department. 
  • Make the adjustment to graduate school easier and less isolating by integrating first-year graduate students into the department community and providing a support network of other graduate students. 
  • Facilitate personal and professional development. 

Meet your graduate mentors

Portrait of Dylan Blend

Dylan Blend

Title/Position
Graduate Student
Graduate Student Mentor
Graduate College Lulu Merle Johnson Fellowship recipient
Connolly

Michael Connolly

Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Graduate College Recruitment Fellow
Graduate Student Advisory Committee Member
Graduate Student Mentor
fasano

Cecilia Fasano

Title/Position
Graduate Research Assistant
Graduate Student Advisory Committee Member
Graduate Student Mentor
Portrait of Kevin Hall

Kevin Hall

Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Graduate Student Mentor
Portrait of Patrick Langer

Patrick Langer

Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Graduate Student Mentor
Masson

Ian Masson

Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Graduate Student Mentor
Nelson

Matthew Nelson

Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Graduate Student Mentor
Quaid, Salvatore

Salvatore Quaid

Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Graduate Student Mentor