[Grad-postdoc-assn] Fwd: Global Science Share: Looking for a few good mentors

[Matthew Higgins]

Hi all,

A former classmate of mine is putting together a really interesting
international partnership to help folks in developing countries
improve their technical writing skills. It sounds like it's along the
same lines as being a SOARS writing mentor. If you're interested in
helping out with this effort, you can sign up below.

-Matt

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Christa Hasenkopf <christa.hasenkopf at colorado.edu>
Date: Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 8:43 PM
Subject: Global Science Share: Looking for a few good mentors
To: info at globalscienceshare.org


Hello Friends and Colleagues!

As some of you may know, I've been working on developing a project
called "Global Science Share." The idea behind it is to connect young
scientists/grad students in developing countries seeking to improve
their academic/technical writing skills with other scientists in
related fields. Why? Scientists from developing countries can face
barriers to communicating with the international science community due
to, among other issues: fewer scientists living in their home country,
difficulty in getting language-specific science writing training,
fewer pre-existing international collaborations, and sometimes
geographic isolation. These barriers not only result in keeping
individual scientists from contributing their great ideas, but they
also slow down the progress of the scientific enterprise for everyone.
We at Global Science Share want to reduce the effect of these barriers
for scientists in developing countries, as well as give an opportunity
for scientists volunteering to develop international collaborations
and improve their own technical writing.

Here's the Global Science Share website that explains how it works in
more detail: http://globalscienceshare.org/

Are you a scientist interested in becoming a mentor? Let us know! Do
you know a scientist or engineer who might be interested? Please
spread the word.  Anyone beyond their first year of grad school in the
sciences or engineering (or otherwise has experience in
academic/technical writing) is welcome. For the month of August, we
are in the pre-pilot phase, trying to amass mentors from a variety of
fields before the pilot phase this fall. During the pilot phase, we
will open up the program to Mongolian young scientist/student mentees
in the hopes to start small, figure out what we're doing right, what
we're doing wrong, and tweak accordingly. Lastly, if any of you have
any comments on the style, tone, content of the site or the project in
general, please share - we're all ears!

Thanks so much,
Christa