ANNOUNCEMENT
 
 
Date:      September 8, 2006
 
To:        All UF Graduate Students
 
From:      The UF Graduate School
 
Re:        MENTORING AWARD NOMINATIONS DUE OCTOBER 18
 

All UF graduate students are eligible to nominate faculty members for the
annual UF Graduate School Doctoral Mentoring Awards, which encourage and
recognize excellence, innovation and effectiveness in mentoring doctoral and
Master of Fine Arts students at the University of Florida.
 
Nominations for the 2006-2007 awards are due at your college dean's office
by Wednesday, October 18 2006.  To nominate a faculty member, please
download the application packet from this link on the UF Graduate School
website...
 
http://gradschool.rgp.ufl.edu/current-files/mentoring-application.pdf
 
...and read the instructions.  You must fill out the nomination form and
write a letter of support to nominate a faculty member.  This application
packet is a PDF file you can read, fill out and print with Adobe Acrobat
Reader.  If you do not have this program on your computer, you can download
it online for free from this link:
 
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
 
Once again, the college deadline for nominations is Wednesday, 18 October
2006.
 
For more specifics, please contact the graduate coordinator in your
department.
 
For more information about the UF Graduate School Doctoral Mentoring Awards
and its previous recipients, please read this webpage:
 
http://gradschool.rgp.ufl.edu/students/mentoring.html
 
We look forward to receiving your nominations soon.
 
Thank you for taking the time to help us recognize those doctoral and Master
of Fine Arts mentors who, in helping you and your fellow students, foster
excellence, innovation and effectiveness in graduate education and research
at the University of Florida.