Doctoral Dissertation/Mentoring Award Winners

Dr. Nicole LP Stedman, Associate Provost and Dean

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 at least five faculty doctoral advisors selected on a competitive basis.  The Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award winners for the 2023-2024 competition are:

Ronald K. Castellano

Professor

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Department of Chemistry

Martin J. Cohn

Professor

College of Medicine

Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology

Nicolas DiLorenzo

Professor

College of Agricultural and Life Sciences

Department of Animal Sciences

Aysegul Gunduz

Professor

Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering

J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering

Holly Lane

Associate Professor

College of Education

School of Special Education, School Psychology, and Early Childhood Studies

Kirk J. Ziegler

Charles A. Stokes Professor

Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering

Department of Chemical Engineering

You can find their photographs and personal statements at grad.ufl.edu/work/awards/fdma.  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.