Swette Center professors cite mental health articles at this week’s lab meetings

Drs. Rittmann and Torres cited the following articles during this week’s lab meetings in hopes that students will reflect on their mental health needs and how we can support them within our Center.  The September 26th WHOLE CENTER meeting (Biodesign AL-10/14, 3:30pm) will address mentoring and may circle back to this to this topic as mentoring is critical to the graduate student experience.  Graduate student, Analissa Sarno, suggested that https://wellness.asu.edu/ offers excellent resources.

Evans, Teresa M, et al. “Evidence for a Mental Health Crisis in Graduate Education.” Nature News, Nature Publishing Group, 6 Mar. 2018, www.nature.com/articles/nbt.4089.

Levecque, K., Anseel, F., De Beuckelaer, A., Van der Heyden, J. and Gisle, L. (2017). Work organization and mental health problems in PhD students. Research Policy, 46(4), pp.868-879.