This award recognizes a graduate student who holds truly outstanding promise as a future professor or academic. The student selected will epitomize a broad range of talents. Evidence of excellence may include scholarship, teaching, student mentoring, electronic pedagogy, or any other relevant area(s) of contribution as defined by the nominator.
Award Amount: Varies
Requirements:- Nominations for these awards should be submitted electronically, in formal memo or letter form, including sufficient detail to enable evaluation of the nominated student’s relevant achievements.
- You (faculty) may nominate more than one student; however, each student should be nominated in no more than one award category.
- Self-nomination statements will not be accepted this year.
How to Apply:
Nominations are due to Jennifer Gerson via email at jennifer.gerson@uci.edu by June 5, 2020. Nominations for these awards should be submitted electronically, in formal memo
or letter form, including sufficient detail to enable evaluation of the nominated
student’s relevant achievements. Faculty may nominate more than one student; however,
each student can be nominated in no more than one award category. Self-nomination
statements will not be accepted.
PAST RECIPIENTS
2020: Monica DeRoche, Political Science
2019: Neil Nory Kaplan-Kelly, Anthropology
2018: Mikaela Smith, Sociology
2017: Marcos Scauso, Political Science
2016: Susan Duncan, Cognitive Sciences
2015: Bennett Holman, Logic & Philosophy of Science
2014: Patrick Button, Economics
2013: Elizabeth Sowers, Sociology
2012: Benjamin Mis
2011: Wilfred T. Wan, Political Science
2010: Scott Byrd, Sociology
2009: Robin L. Bowman
2008: Kathy H. Rim
2007: Carla Valenzuela