Welcome to "Mentoring Matters" the podcast where professors Stephanie Hansen and Mary Drewnoski share their expert insights on how to excel as a mentor. Join us as we tackle the challenges of mentoring graduate students and offer actionable tips for building community, enhancing communication, and fostering a culture of learning within your team. With years of experience and hard-won wisdom, Hansen and Drewnoski will provide the guidance you need to succeed in your mentoring endeavors. Tune in to "Mentoring Matters" for valuable insights and advice on mentoring graduate students.
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Mentoring Matters, we dig into how to give students feedback and why it's so hard! We start with the big reason it stings: students tend to tie their self-worth to the quality of their work, so a draft full of comments can feel like a verdict on them as a person. We talk about how to separate the work from the writer so feedback becomes a tool for growth. We also walk through our START framework for feedback that lands: Specific, Timely, Actionable, Respect...
22 Mar 2026
Keeping Your Lab Running Through Planned and Unplanned Leave
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Mentoring Matters, we get personal. We recorded this one back in January 2025 and are just now sharing it, but the topic is too important to sit on. Mary and Steph both stepped away from their labs for a semester, one planned and one not, and we're talking about what that looked like, what we wish we'd done differently, and what we'd tell other mentors to have in place before they need it. We talk about the difference between preparing for a sabbatical you ...
15 Mar 2026
The Case for Doing Less: How Slow Productivity Can Make You a Better Mentor
Send a text In this episode of Mentoring Matters, dig into the (unfortunately) age-old question: am I actually being productive, or just busy? Inspired by Cal Newport's Slow Productivity, we explore what it looks like to focus on fewer, higher-impact commitments, and why that matters not just for your own work, but for the quality of mentoring you can offer your students. We talk through how to evaluate new opportunities before you say yes, why the real time cost of a commitment is almost alw...
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