Awards Celebrating Graduate Student Achievement
Highlighting Some of Our Outstanding Graduate Students
Sara Dolan, Associate Dean for Professional Development
Awards
Enhancing student success also means celebrating our students’ accomplishments. The Graduate School offers awards to students for exceptional performance as classroom teachers, as scholars, and for outstanding dissertation research projects. Awards in each of these three domains are given to an individual from the humanities, the social sciences, and STEM areas, and students are celebrated at a banquet with their Graduate Program Directors, their mentors, the Dean of the Graduate School, and the Provost. Faculty and the Deans in the Graduate School evaluate application materials, and it is often quite difficult to distinguish between our highly accomplished graduate students. But these awards are not just about recognition of student success. Preparation of these award applications provides a model for students for job applications. They prepare summaries of their teaching and/or research that will be useful when they go on the job market.
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award (2021-22)
- Katherine Goodwin, Department of History
- Cordell Hammon, Department of Mathematics
- Maryann Hebda, Department of Educational Psychology
- Jose Seiba Moris, Department of Health, Human Performance and Recreation
- Tyler Mowry, Department of Religion
- Nori Ryland, Department of Educational Psychology
- David Skowronski, Department of Philosophy
- Honorable Mention: Maggi Jones, Department of Religion
This award honors graduate student Teachers of Record who were able to balance their own work and responsibilities as students while demonstrating excellence as classroom instructors. Nominees were selected based on student teaching evaluations, and applicants were evaluated by a panel of faculty and a previous winner, who reviewed recommendations from supervising faculty, student evaluations as well as a personal letter from a student in their classes, their teaching philosophy statements, and their participation in professional teaching development programs.
Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award
This honor is awarded to a doctoral or MFA student who has submitted an application including a summary of ongoing and completed research projects, plans for future research, documentation of publications and presentations, and a letter of recommendation from a faculty member.
Outstanding Dissertation Award
The Graduate School's Outstanding Dissertation Award recognizes exceptional scholarship, research, and writing by doctoral students. These awards are intended to help raise the profile of our doctoral students and identify dissertations worthy of nomination for various national awards, including the prestigious Council of Graduate Schools / UMI Distinguished Dissertation Award.
Caroline Paddock, Ph.D., Information Systems Dissertation: "Aristotelianism and Liberalism: Toward a Rapprochement" |
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Jonathan Seward, Ph.D., Health Services Research Dissertation: "Examining Health Care Provider Case and Setting Allocation" |
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Raegyn Taylor, Ph.D., Chemistry & Biochemistry Dissertation: "Targeted and Non-targeted Analysis of Pesticides, Algal Toxins, and Human Pharmaceuticals in Aquatic Systems" |