Peer Mentor Program
The Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) Peer Mentor (PM) Program is a year-long program that pairs incoming students with undergraduate students with prior research experience.
The program has dual goals and emphases using a symbiotic, peer-to-peer relationship model:
- Mentors help mentees, new students, learn UNLV’s research ecosystem and OUR’s programs, events, and resources during the first weeks, months, and throughout the most difficult first year, or two. The goal is to guide new students and support their personal and professional growth and development which helps anchoring new students to the university more firmly.
- Mentors gain leadership skills by serving as mentors and role models.