graduate student senate

The Graduate Student Senate of Arts & Sciences is very proud to announce the winners of the 12th Annual Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards. 

Each year a graduate student committee of the Senate chooses excellent mentors from a large number of nominations submitted by graduate student mentees.  Mentors are celebrated at a ceremony sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.  This year's celebration marked the twelfth year the Senate has honored excellence in graduate mentorship.  The event took place on Wednesday April 13th in the Women's Building Formal Lounge. 

With no further ado, this year's Outstanding Faculty Mentors are...

Anca Parvulescu, English
Nancy Morrow-Howell, Social Work
Simine Vazire, Psychology
Andrew Martin, Political Science
Robert Gerrau, Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences
Aaron DiAntonio, Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences

The committee also honored 13 professors with Special Recognitions:

Barak Cohen, Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences
Brian Crisp, Political Science
Andrea Friedman, History
Matthew Gabel, Political Science
Robert Hegel, Asian & Near Eastern Languages and Literatures
Nathan Jensen, Political Science
Jennifer Kapczynski, Germanic Languages and Literatures
Timothy Ley, Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences
Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert, Biomedical Engineering
Ignacio Sanchez-Prado, Romance Languages and Literatures
Stanley Sawyer, Mathematics
Ting Wang, Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences
Desiree White, Psychology

This year's Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards Committee committee was co-chaired by Geoff Maddox and Monica McDonald.  Erica Schoeller, Maya Granpathy, Jennifer Greenfield and Sandor Kovacs were members. 

They would like to thank Dean Richard J. Smith, Associate Dean Elaine Berland, Rachel Pepe and Nancy Bauman for their support, facilitation and commitment to this program.