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.