We are pleased to announce that ASPET has been awarded a highly competitive Career Guidance for Trainees (CGT) grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund to support the ASPET Mentoring Network. The CGT grant provides support for projects that improve trainees’ readiness for stable, fulfilling careers and that have potential for being affordably deployed at a larger scale. With only 7 CGT awards nationally, ASPET is the only professional society to receive this prestigious grant in 2018. For more information about the grant and the 2018 recipients, visit https://www.bwfund.org/grant-programs/career-guidance/career-guidance-trainees/grant-recipients.

The ASPET Mentoring Network: Coaching for Career Development, initially funded for 3 years through the 2014 ASPET BIG IDEAS initiative, is designed to supplement the training that graduate students and postdoctoral trainees receive through their university programs. It focuses on developing skills needed to succeed scientifically, professionally, psychologically, and socially, including discussions about experiences and pressures faced by groups that are underrepresented in the sciences. The program uses a coaching model to help participants develop success skills for a variety of careers. Thanks to the CGT award, ASPET will be offering this successful program again next year. Applications for the 2019-2020 program will open this Fall. For more information about the program, visit https://www.aspet.org/aspet/education-careers/aspet-programs/aspet-mentoring-network.