Female peer mentors early in college have lasting positive impacts on female engineering students that persist beyond graduation

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• who: Deborah J. Wu from the Participants Our study participants (ie., potential mentees) comprised of , female students majoring in engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. We also recruited , student mentors (, females, males) based on faculty recommendations. Our study was approved by the University of Massachusetts Amherst Institutional Review Board. Data collection took place over , years, from, . Participants were recruited during new student orientation for the, , and, academic years. Most students were entering first-years (80%). The remainder were transfer students joining in their second year (20%). During their first year in the study, participants were randomly . . .
  

   

  

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