Thursday, September 17, 2020

Mentoring Award - applications due by November 1.

Dear Current (and recently graduated) ABE Graduate Students,

Thank you for mentoring! Your time and effort mentoring others make a difference!

The ABE Department appreciates mentors and has established a departmental award for graduate students to recognize individuals who stand out in service for mentoring others.

Mentoring others can have a huge impact on not only the mentor but for the mentee. If you have served or are serving as a mentor, consider applying for this award. Eligibility criteria include:
The applicant is a current or recent ABE graduate student
The applicant has provided or currently provides peer-to-peer mentoring of graduate students, mentoring of undergraduate students, and/or mentoring in a K-12 classroom (working with K-12 students and/or teachers)

For application materials and submission information please visit the ABE website: https://abe.ufl.edu/graduate/awards-and-funding/

Applications are due November 1, 2020 and awardees will be recognized at the ABE Recognition and Awards Dinner to be held in Spring 2021.

The UF Graduate School also has an award program for Mentors. Graduate School Mentoring Award Our own Yulin “Patrick” Zheng was the award recipient in Spring 2020. Read Patrick’s mentoring philosophy here and consider applying for this award too! Their deadline is in the Spring, but is not announced yet.