Mentor Me! Mentor Be!

The Mentor Me! Mentor Be! Research and Professional Mentoring Program features alumni of the Nutrition and Dietetics Program as research and professional mentors for current undergraduate students of the same program.  We hope to create a community of past, present, and future dietitians and nutrition scientists who can learn from one another and continue to re-invest in the future of the profession, human nutrition sciences, and the health of individuals, communities, and nations.

To learn more about the mentoring process and explore its value as a mentee or as a mentor (whether student or faculty), please open the manuals below. 

Mentoring Manual: Building Graduate Nutrition by our own USDA NIFA Hispanic-Serving Institution Education Grant

Accrediting Practising Dietitian Mentoring Guide by Dietitians Australia 

Mentoring manual: a guide for mentors and mentees by the American Nurses Association (ANA) and Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Minority Fellowship Program.

The mentoring manual: IBP guide to mentoring for all program participants by The Institute for Broadening Participation.

The science of effective mentorship in STEMM by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

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Andrea Victoria De Arce González

Mentoring Interests:

  • Scientific research (literature search strategies) in courses such as Human Biochemistry and Human Nutrition
  • Short and Long-Term Goal Setting
  • Task Organization
  • Rite of passage between nutrition undergraduate programs and graduate life
  • Orientation on how to apply to Dietetic Internships in Puerto Rico

 

Sachelly Julián Serrano

Mentoring Interests:

  • Public Health
  • Epidemiology
  • Nutrition
  • Human Biochemistry
  • Research
  • Clinical Dietetics – Pediatrics

 

Carolina Isabel Morales Serrano

Mentoring Interests:

  • Community Nutrition (health promotion and health education, sexual and gender minorities, eating disorders, and trans-centered nutrition care)
  • Qualitative and Mixed-Methods Research
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Health Disparities
  • Translational Nutrition

 

Raika A. Rivera Rentas 

Mentoring Interests:

  • Professional Orientation
  • Food Security
  • Food Sovereignty
  • Nutrition Communication

 

María Gabriela Sanabria Véaz

Mentoring Interests:

  • Orientation about research internships and graduate school
  • Interdisciplinary Research
  • Microbiology and Microbiome
  • Cervical Cancer, Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)
  • Foods, Microbiome, and Chronic Disease

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