CBE—Life Sciences EducationVol. 20, No. 4 General Essays and ArticlesFree AccessImproving Academic Performance and Retention of First-Year Biology Students through a Scalable Peer Mentorship ProgramMike Wilton, Daniel Katz, Anthony Clairmont, Eduardo Gonzalez-Nino Kathy R. Foltz, and Rolf E. ChristoffersenMike Wilton*Address correspondence to: Mike Wilton (E-mail Address: [email protected]).Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology andSearch for more papers by this author, Daniel KatzGevirtz Graduate School of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106Search for more papers by this author, Anthony ClairmontGevirtz Graduate School of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106Search for more papers by this author, Eduardo Gonzalez-NinoDepartment of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology andSearch for more papers by this author Kathy R. FoltzDepartment of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology andSearch for more papers by this author, and Rolf E. ChristoffersenDepartment of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology andSearch for more papers by this authorErin L. Dolan, Monitoring EditorPublished Online:7 Oct 2021https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.21-02-0039AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextSupplemental MaterialView PDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail View articleSupplemental Materialcombinedsupmats.pdf (976 KB)FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Vol. 20, No. 4 December 01, 2021 Supplemental MaterialsMetrics Downloads & Citations Downloads: 1477 History Submitted: 17 February 2021 Revised: 26 August 2021 Accepted: 2 September 2021 Information© 2021 M. Wilton et al. CBE—Life Sciences Education © 2021 The American Society for Cell Biology. This article is distributed by The American Society for Cell Biology under license from the author(s). It is available to the public under an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 3.0 Unported Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0).This program was supported in part by a grant to UCSB from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute through the Science Education Program (grant no. 52008111).PDF download