Undergraduate research programs improve career outcomes for historically marginalized students in the US, but low retention rates in postgraduate research persist. As graduate students and postdocs, we present a combination of trainee-informed approaches for tailoring summer research programs to these students’ needs and share key materials to facilitate adoption of these approaches at other institutions.
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Cazares, C., Patiño, M., Contreras, M. et al. A trainee-informed model for undergraduate neuroscience research programs serving marginalized students. Nat Neurosci 27, 2047–2052 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-024-01790-5
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