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Melissa Harrington is the interim associate vice president for research, director of the Delaware Center for Neuroscience Research, and professor of biology at Delaware State University (DSU). In My Advice for Finding Mentors, she shared what qualities to look for in potential mentors and how to begin and maintain mentoring relationships. Here, Harrington details her work environment and research approach at DSU, a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) with approximately 4,500 undergraduate and graduate students.
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Melissa Harrington
Melissa Harrington is the director of the Delaware Center for Neuroscience Research. Harrington’s main role as center director is to mentor and guide early-stage faculty in establishing an independent research program that is competitive for external funding. She began her faculty career in the biology department at Morehouse College in Atlanta before relocating to Delaware to join the faculty in the Department of Biological Sciences at Delaware State University (DSU), where she became the associate vice president for research and the director for the Delaware Institute of Science and Technology, the first research institute created at the university. She received her PhD in neuroscience from the Stanford University School of Medicine. Her current research program focuses on understanding the development of motor neurons.
