The Graduate School
2009 Graduate School Outstanding Alumnus/Alumna Award
This award recognizes alumni and alumnae who have distinguished themselves through academic or nonacademic achievements since graduation from The University of Texas at Austin with a doctoral or master's degree.
Criteria for Nomination
Nominees should have achieved preeminence in their academic or professional careers as demonstrated by service in the public or private sector, membership in scholarly communities, publications, artistic endeavors, creativity, honors, or other significant contributions.
Award
The award recipient will be honored at the Graduate School Convocation on May 16, 2009. The award recipient will be reimbursed for travel expenses.
A $5000 fellowship in the name of the award recipient will be given to a student selected from the graduate program from which the outstanding alumnus/alumna graduated. The fellowship recipient may be either a continuing or new student at the doctoral or master's level. The scholarship may be distributed over one or more semesters in the academic year following the award (2009-2010) and may be combined with other awards. Procedures for selecting the fellowship recipient will be forwarded to the appropriate graduate program after the award winner has been selected.
Nomination and Selection Procedures
- Each graduate program may nominate one alumnus/alumna who
received either a doctoral or a master's degree from the university.
- Submit four sets of the following materials:
- Completed nomination form (.pdf) (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.)
- Letter of nomination from the dean, department chair, program director, or graduate adviser
- Nominee's vita or résumé documenting the nominee's achievements.
- The award selection committee will evaluate the nominations and recommend to the Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies the recipient for the award.
Deadline
Submit all materials no later than Friday, November 14, 2008, to:
Tom Belinoski, Assistant Dean
Graduate School
G0400 (Main Building 101)
(512) 232-3607
email: belinoski@austin.utexas.edu