Graduate Faculty Mentor of the Year Award
Outstanding faculty mentors are critical to graduate education and to creating a successful graduate student experience. The Graduate Faculty Mentor of the Year Award serves the dual purposes of recognizing outstanding mentoring provided by individual faculty and of reminding the university community of the importance of mentoring to graduate studies.
We invite students to nominate University of Maryland graduate faculty for this award.
Eligibility: All University of Maryland, College Park Graduate Faculty are eligible for nomination. Currently enrolled graduate students may submit nominations. One letter of nomination per faculty member will be accepted.
Deadline Extended: The nomination deadline is 12:00 p.m. (noon) on Friday, March 20, 2026.
2026 Guidelines
Award Recipients
2025
Tara Brown, Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership
Kang Namkoong, Communication
Abani Pradhan, Nutrition and Food Science
Rachel Romeo, Human Development and Quantitative Methodology
Linda Steiner, Journalism
Chandra Turpen, Physics
2024
Jie Chen, Health Policy Management
Sonalde Desai, Sociology
Laura Duncanson, Geographical Sciences
Catherine Knight Steele, Communication
Jessica Magidson, Psychology
Xiaoli Nan, Communication
Marisa Parham, English
Tracy Riggins, Psychology
Zeena Zakharia, Counseling, Higher Education, and Special Education
Carina Zelaya, Communication
2023
Jessica Fisher, Family Science
Sharon Fries-Britt, Counseling, Higher Education, and Special Education
Bridget Kelly, Counseling, Higher Education, and Special Education
Susan Moeller, Journalism
Robyn Muncy, History
Neil Sehgal, Health Policy and Management
Marie Thoma, Family Science
Carly Woods, Communication
2022
Anna Alberini, Agricultural Resource Economics
Perla Guerrero, American Studies
Siv Lie, Music
BrookeLiu, Communication
Candace Moore, Counseling, Higher Education and Special Education
Maria Polinsky, Linguistics
Sushant Ranadive, Kinesiology
Karin Rosemblatt, History
Cixin Wang, Counseling, Higher Education and Special Education
David Weintrop, Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership
Delores Ziegler, Music
2021
David Andrews, Kinesiology
Melissa Blanco Borelli, Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies
Karen Carleton, Biology
Naomi Feldman, Linguistics
Claudia Galindo, Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership
Amanda Lazar, Information Studies
Kevin McIver, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics
Nancy Mirabal, American Studies
Elizabeth Redcay, Psychology
Sergii Skakun, Geographical Sciences