GSA Awards
We are excited to announce another GSA Award Ceremony! This event will feature the award recipients in a semi-formal award presentation format and be preceded by a pizza and ice cream social presented by the graduate school directly after.
Award Categories Include:
- Qualifying/Comprehensive Exam - This award recognizes the milestone of completing a qualifying exam.
- 4.0 Award - Automatically earned if you have reached your final semester as a graduate student and have maintained a 4.0.
- Celebrate Student Success - This award recognizes student accomplishments, including publications, conference presentations, student leadership, and community service.
- Mentor Award - This award recognizes administrative and faculty members who have shown tremendous commitment to mentoring, advising, and supporting graduate students during the academic year. This award will be given to administration or faculty members who have made significant efforts in mentoring and advising graduate students to become professionals in their field, shape the graduate work of a graduate student, and/or provide exceptional personal support and development to a graduate student.
- GSA 20 under 35 - Recognizing how difficult it is to complete graduate degrees consecutively or concurrently, this award recognizes 20 graduate students below age of 35 who have made a significant mark on the campus community through excellent teaching, innovative research, service to the campus and community, or general dedication above and beyond their performance in the classroom.
The location for this year will be the Rose Theatre Lobby, 2pm-4:45 pm and the date is April 2nd
Graduate School Spring Social 2:00pm-4:00pm Rose Theatre Lobby
Graduate Student Assocation (GSA) Spring Award Ceremony 4:00pm- 4:45pm Rose Theatre South Lobby
You can submit nominations for yourself or someone else, here. Nominations open now and will close March 30th 2024
Graduate Student Association Award Recognitions Spring 2024
Celebrate Student Success - This award recognizes student accomplishments, including publications, conference presentations, student leadership, and community service.
- Tiffany Howlett
- Sadia Marium Rinty
- Tracy L Humphrey
- Faraz Ul Haq
- Korbyn Peebles
- Emily Gillo
- Kiran Shankar Kamble
- Sanjaya Regmi
- Savannah Johnson
- Himal Pokhrel
- Sushwanth Reddy Boyapally
- Adedamola David Aladese
- Clarion Jamil Harris
- Debendra Timsina
- Sree Malya Bathina
- Sameer Neupane
- Alireza Eskandarinejad
- Samantha Guajardo
- Anuradha Mahanama
- Chetna Tiwari
- Bakheet Almatrafi
- Anup Shakya
- Abisha Thapa Magar
- Jada Sandridge
- Hadi Heydarizadeh Shali
4.0 Award - Automatically earned if you have reached your final semester as a graduate student and have maintained a 4.0.
- Christian Carichner
- Md Sadiqur Rahman
- Qamar Raza
- Adam Alter
- John Ebert
- Morgan Elbot
- Myers Enlow
- Rachel Hamilton
- Jamesha Hayes
- Anthony Kiech
- Abigail Kurtz
- DiArron Morrison
- Jayme Nobles
- Kelly O’Neil
- Bradley Sowell
- Adeline White
Mentor Award - This award recognizes administrative and faculty members who have shown tremendous commitment to mentoring, advising, and supporting graduate students during the academic year. This award will be given to administration or faculty members who have made significant efforts in mentoring and advising graduate students to become professionals in their field, shape the graduate work of a graduate student, and/or provide exceptional personal support and development to a graduate student.
- Dr. Jebose Okwumabua, Professor, College of Health & Sciences
- Dr. J. Gayle Beck, Professor Emerita, Department of Psychology
- Dr. Jermaine O. Johnson, Department of Chemistry
- Kelsey Harrison, Program Coordinator Assistant Professor, Sculpture; Department of Art & Design
- Bentuo Zheng, Professor, Graduate Director; Department of Mathematical Sciences
- Dr. Remy Debes, Depatment Chair and Professor; Department of Philosophy
- Dr. Joseph Lariscy, Graduate Coordinator and Associate Professor; Department of Sociology
- Dr. Tim McCuddy, Assistant Profesor, Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice.
GSA 20 under 35 - Recognizing how difficult it is to complete graduate degrees consecutively or concurrently, this award recognizes 20 graduate students below age of 35 who have made a significant mark on the campus community through excellent teaching, innovative research, service to the campus and community, or general dedication above and beyond their performance in the classroom.
- Sadia Marium Rinty
- Alberto L. Rodríguez-Nieves
- Sushwanth Reddy Boyapally
- Priti Oli
- Adedamola David Aladese
- Tiffany Howlett
- Anuradha Mahanama
- Sameer Neupane
- Bakheet Almatrafi
- Samantha Guajardo
- Chetna Tiwari
- Anup Shakya
- Abisha Thapa Magar
- Jada Sandridge