DEAN’S AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN SERVICE AS A GRADUATE PROGRAM DIRECTOR
The Excellence in Service Award is given for outstanding service to Graduate Education at Stony Brook by a graduate program director. Criteria for selection may include provision of timely and excellent advice to graduate students about academic, registration, support and placement issues and or generosity of time in working with graduate students. These criteria are not meant to be exhaustive, but instead to suggest activities that might be considered in a nominating letter. The nominee must have been a graduate program director for at least two years at the time of the nomination.
The award will comprise a certificate and a $500 award check. Nominations may be made by faculty, staff or students.
Nomination materials should include :
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The Excellence in Service Award is given for outstanding service to Graduate Education at Stony Brook by a graduate program director. Criteria for selection may include provision of timely and excellent advice to graduate students about academic, registration, support and placement issues and or generosity of time in working with graduate students. These criteria are not meant to be exhaustive, but instead to suggest activities that might be considered in a nominating letter. The nominee must have been a graduate program director for at least two years at the time of the nomination.
The award will comprise a certificate and a $500 award check. Nominations may be made by faculty, staff or students.
Nomination materials should include :
- A letter of nomination
- Letter of support from the faculty member's Department chair.
- Letter of support from graduate program coordinator .
- Letter of support from at least one other faculty member .
- Letter of support from at least two graduate students who have a direct knowledge of nominee's service activities.
| 2009 | : | Anne McElroy, Marine and Atmospheric Sciences |
| 2008 | : | Laszlo Mihaly, Physics |
| 2007 | : | Steila Tsirka, Pharmacology |
| 2006 | : | Partap Khalsa, Biomedical Engineering |
| 2005 | : | Brigette Demes, Anthropological Sciences ( first year awarded ) |
