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 2022-2023 competition are:

Kyle Allen
Associate Professor
Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering

Silvio dos Santos
Associate Professor
College of the Arts
School of Music

Antonio Faciola
Associate Professor
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
Department of Animal Sciences

Robert McKenna
Professor
College of Medicine
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Kevin Otto
Professor
Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering

You can find their photographs and personal statements at http://graduateschool.ufl.edu/faculty–staff/awards/faculty-doctoral-mentoring-award/   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.