The Graduate Assembly Faculty Mentoring Award

by Miguel Daal, GA Campus Affairs Vice President, and Yenhoa Ching, CAVP Chief of Staff

The Graduate Assembly Faculty Mentor Award, now in its fourth year, honors Senate and non-Senate members of the Berkeley faculty who have shown an outstanding commitment to mentoring, developing, and supporting graduate student researchers. Graduate students who have been the direct beneficiaries of the candidate's mentoring, relate their experiences first-hand in nomination letters. A committee of graduate students and previous Faculty Mentor Awardees select three winners based on these letters. The winners receive a $1,000 cash award and plaque at the Faculty Mentor Award recognition ceremony, which is open to the UC Berkeley community.

At this ceremony, Graduate Division's Sarlo Award for outstanding mentorship will also be conferred. The Sarlo Award differs form the Faculty Mentor Award mainly in that faculty nominate other faculty for the award.

Ceremony Details:
2:30pm - 5pm on Tuesday, April 22
McCollum Room (775A&B) Tan Hall

The event will be catered. Opening remarks by
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost George Breslauer.

2008 Faculty Mentor Award Winners:

Carlos Daganzo
(Civil & Environmental Engineering)

Dru Dougherty
(Spanish & Portuguese)

Paola Bacchetta
(Gender & Women's Studies)