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GRADUATE STUDENT COUNCIL
Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Harvard University
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GRADUATE STUDENT COUNCIL ANNOUNCES RECIPIENTS OF THE 2008 EVERETT MENDELSOHN EXCELLENCE IN MENTORING AWARDS

The Graduate Student Council (GSC) of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) at Harvard University is pleased to announce the recipients of the tenth annual Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Awards. This year's recipients will be honored at a reception in the Harvard Faculty Club on Friday, March 14, from 5 to 7 pm. After a welcome by GSC President Kyle Brown at 5:15, the event will begin officially at 5:45 with remarks GSC Vice-President Sofia Becerra-Licha and GSC Communications Officer Patrick Hamm, followed by a keynote address by GSAS Dean Allan Brandt and the presentation of the awards to the recipients.

The Awards Committee selected the following faculty members as recipients of this year's Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award:

Svetlana Boym (Slavic Languages and Literatures & Comparative Literature)
Philip A. Kuhn (History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations)
Thomas McGuire (Health Policy)
Lucien-Castaing Taylor (Anthropology and Visual and Environmental Studies)
Daniel M. Wegner (Psychology)

The Excellence in Mentoring Award was established by the Graduate Student Council in 1998-99 to honor those Harvard faculty members who truly go out of their way to mentor GSAS students, honoring faculty for efforts in supporting, encouraging and promoting their graduate students' research, education, professional and personal development, and career plans. The Awards were renamed in honor of Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn upon his retiring from the Master of Dudley House in 2002.

The GSC received a 1999 Program Award from the National Association of Graduate-Professional Students in recognition of the Excellence in Mentoring Awards. Additional information is available from the GSC Excellence in Mentoring Awards web site.

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