The University of Wyoming’s academic affairs office has picked their 2022 graduate student and mentor awards for outstanding teaching and research.
There are four faculty awards given to professors across campus.
Ray Fertig, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, was awarded the distinguished graduate faculty mentor award. This award recognizes outstanding faculty commitment to graduate student mentoring.
Pejman Tahmasebi, an associate professor in the Department of Petroleum Engineering, was awarded the early-career graduate faculty mentor award. This award is new and presented to a faculty member who has less than six years of an academic career at UW.
Boyi Dai, an associate professor in the Division of Kinesiology and Health, and Kam Ng, an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering and Construction Management, were both awarded the mid-career graduate faculty mentor award. This award is also new and presented to a faculty member with six to 10 years of an academic career at the university.
Graduate students across campus were also given various awards.
The John P. Ellbogen outstanding graduate assistant teaching award was given to various graduate teaching assistants to honor their excellence in teaching.
This year the five winners were as follows:
- Solana Quistorff, Department of English.
- Claudia Richbourg, Program in Ecology (Department of Botany).
- Chase Mahan, Department of Anthropology.
- Samuel Choi, Department of Psychology.
- Melanie Torres, Program in Ecology (Department of Ecosystem Science and Management)
The outstanding master’s thesis award recognized a graduate student for an exemplary master’s thesis.
This year’s winner was Samantha Nobes from the department of plant sciences for specialty cut flower production and pollinator visitation in protected environments.
The outstanding dissertation award was given to a graduate student for an excellent doctoral dissertation.
Shaochen Huang, Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. The Division of Kinesiology and Health program was awarded this for the roles of visual and kinesthetic information in learning and control of bimanual coordination.
Each of these awards came with a stipend to celebrate these people and their accomplishments.
