Honors and Awards

The Dean's award and the current winners are listed here. If you would like to nominate someone, please follow the links above to get more information and access to the nomination form.

Dean's Award for Graduate Research Excellence:

2023

Winner

• Jia Gwee / Department of Biology

Finalists

• Taylor Damann / Department of Political Science
• Xiaojin Jin Ma / Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Nicole Rodriguez Cavero / Department of Physics
• Rodrigo Viqueira / Hispanic Studies

 

Dean's Distinguished Graduate Fellows:

2023

• Cristina Correa / Comparative Literature
• Abbie Eastman / Political Science
• Danae Gaytan / Education
• Darcy Harris / Biochemistry, Biophysics, & Structural Biology
• Jillian Lepek / Art History and Archaeology
• Ziyan Li / Physics
• Carolyn Liu / English
• Marisa Stephens / Classics
• Emmy Sun / East Asian and Comparative Literature
• Tola Sylvan / English
• Yu-Liang Yeh / Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
• Maddie Valdez / Psycological and Brain Sciences

 

Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence Awardees:

2024

• Sara Flores ​/ English
• Stella Papadokonstantaki / Economics
• Ljupcho Petrov / Mathematics 
• Caitlin Petty / Art History and Archeology
• Christian Schuetz / Germanic Languages and Literatures
• Karuna Thomas / Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Emily Wright / Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences