Nathaniel Thom
- Assistant Professor -
- Wheaton College -
Wheaton College
Research in Residence - 2014
I like teaching; I love mentoring. I've had some incredible mentors over the last decade so I'm incredibly excited to be in a position to pay it forward. During the summer of 2014 I was fortunate enough to have two bright research assistants working with me.
Todd Vankerkhoff (far left, next to his wife Amy who is holding our youngest son, Titus) is a medical student at the Stritch School of Medicine at Loyola University of Chicago. Todd is very interested in how to promote brain health so he helped me write about how elite adventure racers process cognitive information.
Amy Early (far right) is a French major interested in pursuing Occupational School (classic Wheaton Liberal arts shining through). Amy is working on a meta-analysis on the effects of glucose on vascular health, and plans to present her findings at Experimental Biology in Boston in 2015. Both Todd and Amy are incredibly sharp and keep me on my toes. I'm truly honored to "do science" with them and to also share my families life with them as well.
Books on mentoring
Below are some books on mentoring that I've enjoyed reading over the last few years. If you have other resources on the art/science of mentoring I'd love to hear from you!
No frills no thrills. With not a frivolous word in the entire book, Johnson and Ridley distill volumes of material on mentoring into one short book. Their 65 principles for mentoring is more like a reference book for me as I continue to learn how to train the next generation of scholars, leaders, servants.
