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 2024-2025 competition are:

William Bauer
Professor
College of the Arts
School of Music

Habibeh Khoshbouei
Professor
College of Medicine
Department of Neuroscience

Prabhat Mishra
Professor
Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering

Boone Prentice
Assistant Professor
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Department of Chemistry

Kelly C. Rice 
Associate Professor
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
Department of Microbiology and Cell Science

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.