Mentoring Awards & Commencement Marshals

Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring awards

The GSAS Graduate Student Council announces the annual awards for excellence by faculty in mentoring graduate students. We seek to recognize those faculty members who truly go out of of their way to mentor graduate students, honoring them for efforts which often go unnoticed -- but not unappreciated. We invite all GSAS students to nominate candidates to receive these unique honors. Awards will be presented to one or more faculty members on the basis of nominations from GSAS students, judged by the selection committee to be prime exemplars of what it means to truly serve as a mentor. In addition to honoring individual faculty members for their concerns for students, it is the hope of the Council that this mentors can serve as models for the entire Faculty. For further information as well as any questions, concerns or problems, please contact the GSC. The nomination deadline this year is: February 18 2008 at 5 p.m. Eastern Time

Commencement Marshals

Each year, six graduating students in GSAS are chosen as commencement marshals. These marshals, who lead graduating GSAS students during the ceremony, are chosen by a committee of fellow graduate students on the basis of their accomplishments during graduate school, specifically their service on behalf of the graduate school and graduate student community. Other factors are taken into account, but this is primarily not an academic honor. Four Ph.D. recipients and two Master's degree recipients are chosen.

Each department may nominate as many of its students as it wants. In order for the committee to make its selections, the nominee's curriculum vitae, a letter of nomination from the department administrator, chair, or director of graduate studies, and any letters of recommendation the nominee wishes the committee to consider must be uploaded to the Graduate Student Council website. The deadline for nominations this year is March 21 2008 at 5 p.m. Eastern Time