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Distinguished Mentor of the Year Award
Faculty who serve as model mentors to their undergraduate research students are eligible to receive the Distinguished Mentor of the Year: Excellence in Undergraduate Research and Inquiry award. Each year, one university-wide award is given based on undergraduate research engagement in the previous year. The Distinguished Mentor of the Year (DMOY) will be recognized with a $2,500 award at the annual Honors Convocation.
Eligibility
- Any permanent, full-time faculty including tenured/tenure track faculty, non-tenured faculty, instructors, multi-year appointees, scientist/scholars, and research faculty who have been employed for one continuous year.
- Faculty must have engaged as direct mentors of students in undergraduate research and inquiry, to include co-curricular (e.g grants, publications, presentations), curricular (e.g. RI Courses, DIR and DIS), as well as individual and group student mentoring.
- Previous award winners are no longer eligible.
Timeline
- January 24th, 2022 Call for faculty applications/nominations
- February 9th, 2022 Complete applications due to the Deans/Directors office
- February 23rd, 2022 Deans submit College nominee and application materials to OURI
- February 24th 2022 Faculty Honors and Awards committee begin review
- April 13th, 2022 Award presented at the Honors Convocation
Contact information for College Submission
Faculty interested in applying for College consideration should send complete DMOY application packages to the following College contacts by Feb 9th :
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Ms. Taina Teran: | TTERAN@fau.edu |
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Ms. Ginger Hale: | vhale4@fau.edu |
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Mrs. Josephine Elliott: | jelliot@fau.edu |
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Dr. Shihong Huang: | shihong@fau.edu |
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Mrs. Sandra Ogden: | sogden@fau.edu |
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Dr. Joanna Drowos: | jdrowos@health.fau.edu |
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Ms. Bernadette Bastien: | bastienb@health.fau.edu |
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Dr. Predrag Cudic: | pcudic@fau.edu |
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Dr. Vaughn Crichlow: | vcrichlow@fau.edu |
Further Information
Complete details and guidelines for the DMOY award can be found here
Previous Distinguished Mentor of the Year Winners
2021 James H. VanZwieten Jr., Ph.D. College of Engineering and Computer Science
2020 Monica Escaleras, Ph.D. College of Business
2019 Myeongsub Kim, Ph.D. College of Engineering and Computer Science
2018 Julie L. Earles, Ph.D. Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
2017 Tobin Hindle, Ph.D. Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
2016 Daniel de Lill, Ph.D. Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
2015 Daniel Meeroff, Ph.D. College of Engineering and Computer Science
2022 Distinguished Mentor of the Year Awardee:
Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
2022 Distinguished Mentor of the Year Finalists:
- Scott Feyereisen, Ph.D. College of Business
- Mehrdad Nojoumian, Ph.D. College of Engineering and Computer Science
- Cristobal Salinas, Ph.D. College of Education
- Lucia Carvelli, Ph.D. Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
- Ceylan Isgor, Ph.D. Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine
- Cheryl Krause-Parello, Ph.D. Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
- Jeanette Wyneken, Ph.D. Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
- Seth Fallik, Ph.D. College of Social Work and Criminal Justice