Chemical and biomolecular engineering doctoral student Jiachun Shi has been selected as a winner of the Outstanding Graduate Student Member Award by the Society of Women Engineers (SWE). Shi is one of only five graduate students to receive this award, which is one of several awards that are part of the organization’s annual awards program.
The University of Illinois Graduate College is proud to announce that Emily Wuchner, Assistant Director for Student Experience, has been honored with an Outstanding International Advocate Award by International Student and Scholar Services (ISSS). The award recognizes university employees who are dedicated to supporting and enhancing the experiences of international students and scholars.
The Graduate College is pleased to announce that Mitzi Koeberlein (Office of Graduate Programs, College of Education) and Andrea Paceley (Office Manager, Speech and Hearing Science) have been named winners of the 2024 Graduate College Excellence Award for Graduate Contacts.
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Associate Director for Education, Sylvia D. Stroup Scholar of Nutrition and Cancer, and Graduate College Associate Dean Zeynep Madak Erdogan received the prestigious 2024 Michael B. Kastan Award for Research Excellence given by the American Association for Cancer Research’s (AACR) Molecular Cancer Research (MCR) journal.
The Graduate College at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is honored to be the 2023 recipient of the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools (MAGS) Award for Excellence and Innovation in Graduate Education. This award recognizes outstanding contributions to graduate education.
The Graduate College is pleased to announce that Penny Ames from the School of Information Sciences is the winner of the 2022 Graduate College Excellence Award for Graduate Contacts.
The Graduate College is proud to announce Derek Attig, the assistant dean for career and professional development, is a Chancellor's Academic Professional Excellence (CAPE) awardee. Attig oversees programming and advising services for over 18,000 graduate students and 600 postdoctoral scholars.
During a ceremony at the Survey Research Laboratory on the Urbana campus, three doctoral students were honored for the quality of their work utilizing survey research methodology. The two winners of the 2017 Robert Ferber and Seymour Sudman Dissertation Awards received $2000 awards and plaques commemorating their achievement. One other student received an honorable mention certificate and $200. Drs.
The Humanities Without Walls (HWW) Consortium has announced its 2016 Pre-Doctoral Fellows, including two University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign graduate students: John Moore from English and Sara Thiel from Theatre. Moore and Thiel, along with 28 other graduate students from the 15 universities that make up the HWW consortium, will participate in a three-week long “alternative academic careers” workshop this summer.