ACS Webinar - Different Minds, Shared Goals: Building Supportive Mentoring Relationships for Neurodivergent Students in Grad School

Now more than ever, it's vital that we uplift and amplify one another’s successes. One powerful way to do that is by intentionally creating opportunities where we can better understand how we thrive individually and in collaboration with others.

Join a dynamic and diverse panel of neurodivergent STEM graduate students, scientists, faculty, and researchers for an honest, insightful conversation about self-advocacy in graduate education. Discover practical strategies that students can use to communicate their accommodation and learning needs, as well as how faculty, mentors, and peers can actively support those efforts. Whether you're a student learning to navigate your academic journey, or a mentor seeking to foster empowering relationships, you’ll walk away with actionable insights, real-world examples, and research-backed approaches to mentoring and STEM education.

What You Will Learn

• Tools to foster mutual understanding and success between students, advisors, and instructors
• Approaches for addressing challenges in mentoring relationships by leveraging individual and collective strengths
• Resources to help students build meaningful mentoring connections and support networks in graduate school