Faculty Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring
The Faculty Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring recognizes graduate faculty who provide outstanding support and guidance to their doctoral students. We encourage the nomination of both senior and junior faculty for this award. When appropriate, The Graduate School will present two awards — one award to a senior faculty member who has demonstrated excellence as a seasoned mentor and one award to a junior faculty member who has exhibited outstanding mentoring at an early stage.
Award Criteria
- Encouraging students to establish their own record of scholarly activity or performance, obtain external fellowships, prepare conference presentations, and/or engage in other professional development opportunities;
- Providing a supportive environment that facilitates the development of best performance and talents from individual graduate students;
- Achieving a successful record of graduate degree completion among the students they have advised.
Eligibility
Nominees must be current graduate faculty who advise doctoral students. Any students receiving their doctoral degrees in 2024-25 may nominate faculty members for this award.
Nomination
Nominations should be submitted using the form linked below and must address the following:
- How the nominee has demonstrated excellence in doctoral mentoring
- Specific examples of how the nominee meets the award criteria
- Information about any other relevant accomplishments, experiences, etc. which exhibit why the nominee should receive this award.
Nominations are currently open.
Deadline
Nominations are due by 5:00 PM on Friday, March 21, 2025.
Award Winners
The award(s) will be presented in conjunction with the Doctoral Hooding Ceremony.
- 2024
- Will Hall, School of Social Work
- 2023
- Gary Pielak, Chemistry
- Kumi Silva, Communication
- 2022
- Li Qian, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
- 2021
- Shelley Golden, Health Behavior
- 2019
- Jason Metcalfe, Mathematics
Contact Us
Laura Thorp, Director of Student Affairs
lethorp@unc.edu