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Science 27 January 2006:
Vol. 311. no. 5760, pp. 473 - 474
DOI: 10.1126/science.1123806
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PROFESSIONAL SKILLS:
Enhanced: The Merits of Training Mentors

Christine Pfund,1,2 Christine Maidl Pribbenow,3 Janet Branchaw,4 Sarah Miller Lauffer,1 Jo Handelsman1,3*

Good mentoring can be learned.

1Wisconsin Program for Scientific Teaching, Department of Plant Pathology, 2Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning, 3Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute, 4Center for Biology Education, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA.

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: joh{at}plantpath.wisc.edu

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