Faculty Mentoring Awards

This award was created to honor faculty members in the college for their outstanding work in mentoring students or junior faculty members. The recipient shall be honored with a recognition memento and a monetary award at the Wilson Awards Banquet held each spring.

Focus

The three main categories of contributions are as follows:

faculty members mentoring undergraduate or graduate students
senior faculty members mentoring junior faculty members
faculty members assisting under-represented students

Nomination Procedure

Annually in September, the dean invites nominations for the Faculty Mentoring Award from each department and institute. Reminders are sent in November.

Each department and institute may submit one nomination (submitted by the department head or director) and the nomination packet should include

a letter from a department head or institute director that describes in sufficient detail the contribution by the faculty member as it relates to one of the categories noted above in the Focus description.
a recent color high-resolution portrait photograph in jpeg format

The nomination materials should be submitted electronically to Diane Ault (emsresearch@ems.psu.edu) no later than February 15.

Eligibility

Members of the college faculty, as defined by the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences' Constitution, are eligible.

Selection Procedure

Nominations are solicited from departments and institutes (typically there is a limit of one nomination per category per department or institute; see the Nomination Procedure guidance under each award). Department heads and institute directors are able to provide new nominations or request reconsideration of last year’s nominees. A selection committee, comprising the deans of the college, reviews and discusses the nominations and selects the recipient in each category.

Past Recipients

2021: Luis Ayala, Guido Cervone, Kenneth Davis, Suzanne Mohney, and Mark Patzkowsky
2020: Clive Randall
2019: Jeffrey L. Kohler
2018: Johannes Verlinde
2017: Andrew Carleton and Michael Hickner
2016: Lorraine Dowler
2015: Eugene Clothiaux
2014: Venkatraman Gopalan
2013: Joan M. Redwing
2012: Sarma Pisupati
2011: Zi-Kui Liu
2010: R. Larry Grayson
2009: Elizabeth Bailey, Turgay Ertekin, Deryck Holdsworth, Jennifer Macalady, Susan Trolier-McKinstry, Anne Thompson
2008: James Kubicki, Derek Elsworth, Brenton Yarnal, Katherine Freeman, James Runt, Lee Grenci
2007: M. Thaddeus Ityokkumbul, James Detwiler, Timothy White, Andrew Kleit, Andre Boehman, Denice Wardrop, Richard Alley, Paul Howell, Dennis Thomson
2006: Douglas Miller, Todd Bacastow, Chunshan Song, Melissa Wright, Peter Heaney, David Green, Jerry Harrington
2005: Myron McClure, Ann Taylor Luck, Lisa Brown, Mark Klima, Caroline Burgess Clifford, Mark Ga-hegan, Lee Kump, Paul Painter, George Young
2004: Elizabeth King, Douglas Miller, Phillip Halleck, Sharon Miller, Brenton Yarnal, Susan Brantley, Allen Kimel, Eugene Clothiaux
2003: Glenn Johnson, David Pollard, Robert Watson, Gareth Mitchell, Lorraine Dowler, Tanya Furman, John Hellmann, Hampton Shirer

Focus

Nomination Procedure

Eligibility

Selection Procedure

Past Recipients

2021 Faculty Mentoring Award