Faculty & Staff Awards

Faculty Doctoral Mentoring Award

Description

The University of Florida Graduate School’s yearly Faculty Doctoral Mentoring Award (FDMA) spotlights outstanding, innovative, and effective mentoring of doctoral and Master of Fine Arts student through their final dissertation or fine arts thesis project.

This award gives $3,000 to each of five or so faculty members, plus $1,000 to each winner's academic unit to use to support doctoral or Master of Fine Arts students.

Nominations for this award come from current UF graduate students, faculty members, administrators, and alumni.

Dates & Deadlines

Nominations for the 2024-2025 Faculty Doctoral Mentoring Awards open on Friday, September 20, 2024.

There are three deadlines to meet in the FDMA process:

• Nominations of eligible graduate faculty from students, faculty and administrators are due to college dean offices by Friday, October 18, 2024.
• The completed application packets are due for college review by Friday, November 8, 2024.
• Faculty candidates selected by the college are to be submitted to the Graduate School no later than Friday, January 17, 2025. 

Application & Instructions

• FDMA Guidelines and Forms 2024-2025

Previous Winners

To view an archive of previous FDMA winners and their personal statements, click here:

• FDMA Winners

Questions?

• Email the UF Graduate School at gradschool@aa.ufl.edu.