BRiDGE: Enhancing lecture series with broader impacts and mentoring opportunities

Mariela Garcia Arredondo1, Kadambari Devarajan2, Carolyn Anderson3, Emily Bechtold2, Raquel Bryant4, Brooke Burrows1, Katherine Chacon-Vargas2, Elsa Cousins2, Adaeze Egwuatu1, Nadia Fernandez2, Nigel Allen Golden5, Srishti Kashyap6, Benjamin Andrew Keisling7, Sarah McCormick8 and RoseAnn Vik2, (1)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States, (2)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Biological Sciences Division, Richland, WA, United States, (4)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Geosciences, Amherst, MA, United States, (5)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Environmental Conservation, Amherst, MA, United States, (6)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Microbiology, Amherst, MA, United States, (7)UMass Amherst-Geosciences, Amherst, MA, United States, (8)University of Massachusetts, Amherst, United States