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Outstanding Graduate Mentor

The Outstanding Graduate Mentor award was created to recognize individual faculty who place a high value on and excel in mentoring graduate students.

Nominees must be tenured members of the UNO graduate faculty currently teaching at UNO.

A nominee must have been active in graduate education for a minimum of three years and established a record of excellence in mentoring graduate students, and provide evidence in the following areas in order to be considered for the award:

  • teaching excellence at the graduate level;
  • chairing masters, specialists, and/or doctoral committees;
  • having an established record of mentoring students who have received their degrees; and
  • attracting graduate students to study at UNO through recruitment efforts, or through having a visible and respected academic reputation in his/her area of expertise.
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Julie Blaskewicz Boron, Ph.D.

  • Professor, Department of Gerontology
  • Recipient of the 2021 Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award

Nomination Information

Click here for detailed nomination criteria and nomination form. Nomination deadline: March 1

Previous Award Winners

Year Recipient Department/School
2020 Brian McKevitt Psychology
2019 Dustin Slivka Health and Kinesiology
2018 Daniel Hawkins Sociology
2017 Dhundy Bastola Interdisciplinary Informatics
2016 Ann Fruhling Interdisciplinary Informatics
2015 Jeffrey French Psychology
2014 Sajda Qureshi Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis
Click here for a full list of award recipients.