The National Research Mentoring Network shifts focus.

[Michael Oberdorfer]

The National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN) was established in 2014 by NIH and a consortium of major research universities to improve mentoring practices following the publication of a study which revealed a significant racial gap in who gets NIH funding. 

Recently, Science reported that when a NIH panel renewed the program last summer they recommended that most of the funds going forward be used to study the science of mentoring by examining different approaches to mentoring with carefully chosen populations. This shift in focus would limit the funds currently supporting the mentoring services provided currently by the network, including a portal that provides a number of mentoring services. This significant shift for the NRMN may be due to a recent report by the National Academy: "Science of Effective Mentoring in Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine and Mathematics (STEMM)."

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