Fwd: Consider SSAR's Graduate Student Mentorship Program

[Rebecca Tarvin]

Dear Herp Group,

Just making you aware of a new mentorship program via SSAR.

Rebecca (Becca) D. Tarvin

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Assistant Professor, Department of Integrative Biology 

Assistant Curator of Herpetology, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology

3101 Valley Life Sciences Building

University of California Berkeley

Berkeley, CA 94720-3160

Lab website: www.tarvinlab.org

Twitter: @frogsicles

Senior Associate, AmphibiaWeb

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Rebecca Tarvin

163 Weill Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Rob Denton <robert....@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Subject: Consider SSAR's Graduate Student Mentorship Program
To:
Cc: Jessica Tingle <jessica...@brown.edu>, Denton, Robert <robert...@bsu.edu>

Hello,

You are receiving this email because you are a previous participant in the JMIH Mentorship Program. Please forgive me for spamming you all, but I want to make you aware of a new SSAR program that could potentially be important for some of you out there.

The SSAR Graduate Student Mentorship Program (GSMP) is a long-form, organized mentorship program built to grow networks and better support students. A full program description with links to the application forms can be found here: https://ssarherps.org/2025/07/graduate-student-mentorship-program-2025-26/

Here are some quick points:

• Mentor applications are due August 8
• Mentee applications are due August 15
• Peer mentors should be current Ph.D. candidates, or people who defended their Ph.D. within the past two years and are currently in a temporary position (like a postdoc)
• Mentees should be 1st or 2nd year Ph.D. students (start date between July 2024 and September 2025) or master’s students
• All applicants should be studying amphibians and/or reptiles

If you have questions, don't hesitate to contact the program director, Dr. Jessica Tingle (cc'd here).

All the best,

Rob Denton