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2 unusual facts about mentorship


Felix Blumenfeld

This theatre saw the premieres of the operas composed by his teacher and mentor Rimsky-Korsakov, and he was also the conductor at the Russian premiere of Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde.

Work to Ride

WTR graduates receive assistance with college enrollment; a few also choose to come back to Chamounix and act as mentors to teens entering the program.


A. Hari Reddi

Hari Reddi received his PhD from the University of Delhi in reproductive endocrinology under the mentorship of M.R.N. Prasad.

Amanecer

Amanecer was one of four projects competitively selected for the 2008 Multicultural Mentorship Scheme, a Metro Screen and NSWFTO joint initiative.

Aung Yin

During his career, he also released many duet albums with other well-known singers like May Sweet and Hayma Ne Win, under the mentorship of Burmese singer-songwriter Htoo Ein Thin.

Australian Horror Writers Association

Other projects established by the AHWA include the Southern Horror Yahoo! Group mailing list for members, an annual flash fiction and short story competition (winning entries are published in Midnight Echo magazine), online chatrooms and forums, a Market Hive (markets database for current horror fiction markets), an annual mentorship programme, and ongoing story critiquing groups.

Barbara Reskin

Other honors include the Cheryl Miller-Sociologists for Women in Society Lecturership and the SWS Mentorship Award.

Binodini Dasi

Born to prostitution, she started her career as a courtesan and at twelve she played her first serious drama role in Calcutta's National Theatre in 1874, under the mentorship of its founder, Girish Chandra Ghosh.

Celia Berrell

In 2010, Celia received a grant from the Cairns Regional Council toward establishing a mentorship for science poetry with James Cook University.

Conductors Without Borders

Conductors Without Borders (CWB), is an international development programme for conductors and choral leaders who lack access to professional education, mentorship or guidance.

Eric Liu

Guiding Lights is the Official Book of National Mentoring Month and has led to the creation of a broad civic campaign to highlight mentorship in all walks of life.

Express Media

Express Media's mentorship programme has included the Australian writers: Christos Tsiolkas, Linda Jaivin, Adam Ford, Anna Krien, Lally Katz and Shalini Akhil.

Fabiana Ríos

Ríos entered politics under the mentorship of the Socialist legislator Alfredo Bravo, and started working within the Alliance for Work, Justice and Education (the short-lived coalition that brought Fernando de la Rúa to the presidency in 1999).

Jade Kindar-Martin

Kindar-Martin there came under the tutelage and mentorship of highwire artist Rudy Omankowski, Jr. and began his partnership with Didier Pasquette.

Jeff Sheng

Sheng attended Harvard University and studied under the mentorship of British photographer and Harvard professor Chris Killip in the Visual and Environmental Studies Department.

Jeffrey Oppenheim

Oppenheim received his undergraduate degree in Neuroscience from Princeton University in 1984, finishing his thesis under the mentorship of George Armitage Miller, graduating Summa Cum Laude.

John H. Hoffman

John Hoffman received his bachelor's degree from St. Mary's College in Winona, Minnesota and continued his education at the University of Minnesota under the mentorship of Professor A. O. C. Nier who pioneered the field of mass spectrometry.

Julian Pellicano

He was also awarded a fellowship from the Centre Acanthes to conduct the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg under the mentorship of Peter Eötvös and Zsolt Nagy, and was selected by Kurt Masur to participate in the 2009 Kurt Masur Conducting Seminar.

Mark Sauer

He completed his residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Illinois Hospital in 1984 and then obtained sub-specialty training in reproductive endocrinology at the University of California in Los Angeles, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, under the mentorship of John Buster, M.D. Dr. Sauer has been married since 1979 to Lynda Marie (Treppa) Sauer and has 4 children: Julie, Chris, Jeffery, and Emily.

Matthew Riley

After winning £5million interest free funding for his company through the Bank of Scotland Corporate Entrepreneur Challenge, Matthew was also awarded a high profile mentorship with Arcadia and BHS boss Sir Philip Green.

Maurice Ptito

He trained as post-doctoral fellow in Neurophysiology at Stanford University Medical School (California) under the mentorship of Professor Karl H. Pribram.

Michael K. Morgan

Following completion of his neurosurgical training in 1986 at Sydney’s Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Morgan undertook a Fellowship in Neurosurgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, under the mentorship of Thoralf M. Sundt.

Peggy McDowell Curlin

Curlin and five women then started Concerned Women for Family Planning under the mentorship of Dr. Penny Satterthwaite, a former missionary in China and who had been involved in the testing of the oral contraceptives in Puerto Rico with the United Nations Population Fund.

Project Runway Canada

The winner of the season was Sunny Fong, winning the cover and a feature spread in ELLE Canada with winning model Victoria, a professional portfolio photo shoot courtesy of L'Oréal Paris, a 'Runway to Retail' business mentorship with Winners, and $100,000 to start his own fashion line.

Rosebud School of the Arts

Located in the little hamlet of Rosebud, Alberta, Canada, one hour north east of Calgary, Rosebud School of the Arts trains students for the professional theatre in its Mentorship Programme.

Seymour Ginsburg

Those who benefitted from Ginsburg's mentorship, who were not also his PhD students, included: Jonathan Goldstine, Sheila Greibach, Michael Harrison, Richard Hull, and Jeff Ullman.

Soul Boy

It developed under the mentorship of German director and producer Tom Tykwer in Kibera, one of the largest slums in the African continent, in the middle of Nairobi, Kenya.

Steven Reigns

In January 2007, Reigns embarked on a 7 years living/art project under the mentorship of Linda Montano.

Tavia Nyong'o

In 2003, he received his Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale, where he studied under the mentorship of Paul Gilroy and Joseph Roach.

The Diegos

He has secured the mentorship of neighbour Dan Man and has had at least two records played on national radio.


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