Doctoral Dissertation/Mentoring Award Winners

Dr. Henry Frierson, Associate Vice President and Dean of the Graduate School

The life of the university is greatly enhanced by the quality of our doctoral students, and they take their direction from our many outstanding faculty members.  In an effort to continue to promote doctoral studies and to recognize excellence in doctoral student mentoring by our faculty, awards are given each year to five faculty doctoral advisors selected on a competitive basis.  The Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award winners for the 2012-2013 competition are:

Edward K. L. Chan
Oral Biology

Kara Dawson
School of Teaching and Learning

Michael Marsiske
Clinical and Health Psychology

Bonnie Moradi
Psychology

Jack Stenner
School of Art and Art History

You can find their photographs and personal statements at:
http://www.graduateschool.ufl.edu/academics/doctoral-mentoring-awards

Please distribute this message to your faculty and encourage them to review what these award winners have to say about doctoral student mentoring.

Each winner will receive a $3000 cash award plus $1000 to support their graduate students.  Please join the Graduate School in recognizing these outstanding doctoral faculty advisors/mentors.