The Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award recognizes exemplary mentoring of doctoral and/or masters' students by members of the UI graduate faculty.

To be eligible, a mentor must have been a member of the UI graduate faculty for at least 5 years and have a record of mentoring students to completion.

Nominations must come from a faculty member in the nominee's department. The following are required as part of the nomination: :

  1.  A nomination letter that addresses these criteria
  2.  A nominee's  statement of mentoring philosophy (no more than 1 double space page) 
  3.  The nominee's current CV
  4.  The nominee's list of current/past doctoral students and/or masters' students advised at the University of Iowa, organized by year of graduation.
  5. Two letters of recommendation from the nominee's graduate students: one from a current graduate student, and one from a student who has graduated.

Nominations should be submitted online. Nomination letters are due February 3, 2025 at 5 p.m.

Each award recipient will receive $2,500. 

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