The Importance of Mentorship in Research at Vanderbilt

Finding strong mentors who support and advocate for you is key even if they're not experts in your area of research. Other lessons I would add to having strong mentorship would be being prepared to face rejection and failure. engage with other researchers outside your division or department and use their expertise to think creatively about solving problems, she says. She's been fortunate to have Leslie Crawford as a career mentor for the past nine years.