Mentoring Awards at Purdue

Provost’s Award for Outstanding Graduate Mentor

The Graduate School solicits nominations each spring semester from across Purdue University’s West Lafayette campus for the Provost’s Award for Outstanding Graduate Mentor. The Graduate School will seek nominations through college assistant/associate deans for graduate education.  Nominees can be from any college or school but must be a current graduate faculty member on the West Lafayette campus.

Graduate School Mentoring Award for Postdoctoral Trainees

The Graduate School wants to acknowledge the essential role postdoctoral trainees play in our research, teaching, and engagement missions here at Purdue University. If you work with a postdoc that has made a difference in your academic career and models the attributes of what we think great mentors should be, please consider nominating them for this award. Postdocs dedicate a great deal of time and energy in mentoring other postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduates whether this is in the lab, field, or classroom. Anyone can nominate a postdoc for this award (i.e., graduate students, undergraduates, staff, faculty, or other postdocs).

Graduate School Mentoring Award for Graduate Students

Graduate students dedicate a great deal of time and energy in mentoring other colleagues, and undergraduates whether in the lab, field, or classroom. The Graduate School wants to acknowledge the essential role graduate students play in our research, teaching, and engagement missions at Purdue University. If you work with a graduate student that has made a difference in your academic career and models the attributes of what we think great mentors should be, please consider encouraging them to apply for this award.