University Graduate School Provost Awards: Announcement of Winners

This year’s award categories and winners can be found below!

Graduate Student Engagement:  recognizes nominees who have demonstrated significant local, regional, or global community engagement initiative(s) with a community partner that has led to demonstrable community impacts.

Carissa Gervasi Bloom
Earth and Environment
Mentor: Dr. Jennifer Rehage

Graduate Student Outstanding Creative Project:  recognizes nominees who have outstanding creative activity of local, national, or international significance.

Amit Kumar Sikder
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mentor: Dr. Selcuk Uluagac

Graduate Student Outstanding Paper or Manuscript:  recognizes nominees who have contributed to the body of literature in their discipline via an outstanding paper or manuscript.

Tessa Carcia-Collart
Marketing
Mentor: Dr. Jayati Sinha

Fahmida Alam
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mentor: Dr. Nezih Pala

Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant:  recognizes exceptional contributions made by a Graduate Teaching Assistant to the educational excellence of FIU.

Laura Garcia Barcia
Biological Sciences
Mentor: Dr. Heather Bracken-Grissom

Outstanding Graduate Program Director:  recognizes a program director’s accomplishments and contributions to the success of a program.

Shaoming Chen
Public Administration
Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs

Mentorship of Graduate Students:  recognizes excellence in the teaching and mentoring of graduate students outside the formal classroom experience.

Andy Pham
Counseling, Recreation, and School Psychology
College of Arts, Sciences & Education

Valentina Bruk-Lee
Industrial and Organizational Psychology
College of Arts, Sciences & Education