Faculty Training Opportunities in Mentorship and Teaching

At Northwestern, faculty mentors play a crucial role in the success of graduate students, other faculty, and post-doctoral fellows. In addition, pre- and post-docs learn from their mentors how to mentor others, and participate in a “mentoring chain” that incorporates undergraduates, master’s students, and earlier-career doctoral students.

http://www.tgs.northwestern.edu/resources-for/faculty/excellence-in-mentoring/index.html 
Northwestern supports the cultivation of an inclusive community of individuals who are dedicated to excellence in mentoring, who model diverse and inclusive mentoring practices, and who help others become effective mentors and mentees at Northwestern University.

https://www.northwestern.edu/searle/
Northwestern’s Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching supports Northwestern University instructors at all levels in utilizing evidence-driven strategies to develop highly effective learning environments and experiences and to foster equity and belonging with inclusive pedagogical practices. 

Northwestern Core Facilities

http://www.facilities.research.northwestern.edu/ 
Research is a top priority at Northwestern. Core Facilities are a pivotal part of the University’s research infrastructure, providing resources that allow groundbreaking work to happen. Within these shared laboratories, researchers have the instrumentation and technical support to push forward discoveries that will shape the future of our nation and our world. Operating as fee-for-service facilities, most are available to external researchers as well.

Researcher’s Sex Inclusion Toolbox

http://www.womenshealth.northwestern.edu/sex-inclusion
In January of 2016, the NIH established a policy which requires the consideration of sex as a biological variable in biomedical and preclinical research. This policy marks a fundamental shift in the way researchers must evaluate sex in their experimental design. The Women’s Health Research Institute established the Sex-Inclusion Toolbox to support and engage investigators who are currently, or interested in, conducting sex-inclusive research.