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Graduate Student Award for Mentoring in Creative Inquiry

Graduate Student Award for Mentoring in Creative Inquiry

Each year the university recognizes one graduate student Creative Inquiry mentor for their exemplary mentorship to their CI students at the Spring University Awards Ceremony. Nominations for the 2024 award are open November 14, 2023 – March 1, 2024.

To be considered for this award, undergraduate CI students must nominate the mentors and a review committee selects recipients. When a graduate student is nominated, the graduate student’s faculty mentor is given the opportunity to submit an additional letter of support.

The award consists of a plaque and a salary supplement.

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Vishal Manjunatha

Previous Award Winners

  • 2023 — Vishal Manjunatha, Food, Nutrition, and Packaging Sciences
  • 2022 — Lauren Stoczynski, Biological Sciences
  • 2021 — Kea Payton, Biological Sciences
  • 2020 — John Cannaday, Forestry and Environmental Conservation
  • 2019 — Kylie Smith, Biological Sciences
  • 2018 — Christopher Mayerl, Biological Sciences
  • 2018 — Drew Morris, Psychology
  • 2017 — Dotan Shvorin, Industrial Engineering
  • 2016 — Alice Brawley, Psychology
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