Program Description. The TSMP began with a seminar open to all incoming transfer students on the subject "Finding an undergraduate research position" one month before their first transfer semester. This seminar was given both with the intention of recruiting students to the program and to help them understand how to approach obtaining a research position in an academic lab before they started their first semester at Berkeley. Following this seminar, transfer students and mentors were recruited. A one-hour introductory meeting and mentorship training was required for graduate and transfer student mentors before the program began, led by the program co-directors. Transfer students were matched to an appropriate mentor both by subfield of interest and specific identity when requested and possible (e.g., mentors that matched the student's gender or race, or who also identified as first-generation college students). Mentors were matched with a maximum of two mentees and instructed to set up 3-5 meetings with their mentees over the course of the fall semester. Graduate student mentors were exclusively members of the chemistry graduate program, while transfer students were split evenly between chemistry and chemical engineering majors. A general timeline of the fall semester program scheduling is provided in Figure .