Relevant and impactful mentors are essential to a graduate student's career. Finding mentors can be challenging in umbrella programs with hundreds of faculty members. To foster connections between potential mentors and students with similar research interests, we created a Matchathon event, which has successfully enabled students to find mentors. We developed an easy-to-use R Shiny app (https://github.com/UM-OGPS/matchathon/) to facilitate matching and organizing the event that can be used at any institution. It is our hope that this resource will improve the environment and retention rates for students in the academy.

中文翻译：

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Matchathon：博士课程中师生关系的指南

相关且有影响力的导师对于研究生的职业至关重要。在数百名教职员工的综合计划中，寻找导师可能具有挑战性。为了促进潜在导师和具有类似研究兴趣的学生之间的联系，我们举办了一项Matchathon活动，该活动已成功使学生能够找到导师。我们开发了易于使用的R Shiny应用程序（https://github.com/UM-OGPS/matchathon/），以方便匹配和组织可在任何机构使用的事件。我们希望该资源可以改善学院学生的环境和保留率。