TEACHING. The Graduate School offers two awards each year for graduate teaching by faculty members and two awards each year for undergraduate teaching by graduate students. The director of each graduate program may nominate one individual for the faculty member teaching award and one for the graduate student teaching award. Nominations should include at least three letters testifying to the nominee’s qualifications and a copy of the nominee’s cv. Other materials are welcome.

Nominees for the faculty teaching awards will be judged on all aspects of graduate teaching and mentoring. Among the elements to be considered are: intensity of the challenge effectively posed to students; richness and conceptual complexity of the material effectively conveyed; integration of research and teaching; generosity of effort; performance of the role of exemplar for future teachers; inspiration of future work and career choices; quality and extent of preparation and responsibility in all aspects of the teacher-student relationship; extension of effects beyond the formal classroom (e.g., extra teaching efforts, advising); quality and quantity of significant student products (e.g., research papers, publications) stemming from classroom and mentored research; individuation of teaching; development of teaching materials (e.g., textbooks); curricular innovation.

Nominees for the graduate student teaching awards will be judged by similar criteria, adapted to the circumstances of the graduate student teacher of undergraduates.

RESEARCH. The Graduate School makes up to six awards each year to graduate students for excellence in research. The director of each graduate program may nominate one individual for a research award. Nominations should include at least three letters testifying to the nominee’s qualifications and a copy of the nominee’s cv. Other materials are welcome. Nominees for the graduate student research awards will be judged by the excellence of their research; in the case of collaborative research the contribution of the nominee must be clearly identified.

ADMINISTRATION. The Graduate School also makes two awards each year to graduate program administrative assistants or other staff members who have made excellent contributions to their respective graduate programs, in the form of extraordinary service to the graduate students and faculty members of the program. Nominations should include at least three letters speaking to the qualifications of the nominee.

The winners of all of these awards receive $1,000 each and the awards are presented at the School’s awards reception in April.

Complete nomination packets should be submitted to Associate Dean Harvey Waterman by February 16.

Dissertation Teaching Award

The Graduate School makes four awards each year to graduate students who have shown excellence in both teaching and research and who propose to offer an upper division undergraduate course in the major in the area of the student’s dissertation research. The director of each graduate program may nominate one graduate student for a dissertation teaching award. Nomination packets should include at least three letters testifying to the nominee’s qualifications and a copy of the nominee’s cv. In addition, the student must submit a proposal for the course to be taught and a letter from the department chair indicating that the department will employ the student to teach the course should the award be made. Winners receive a summer stipend of $3,500 for preparation of the course. Nominees for the dissertation teaching awards will be judged by the excellence of the dissertation, the record of teaching and the quality and appropriateness of the proposed upper division course. The awards are presented at the School’s awards reception in April.

Complete nomination packets should be submitted to Associate Dean Harvey Waterman by February 16.