ANNOUNCEMENT


Date:   September 18, 2013

To:     All UF Graduate Students, Coordinators and Staff

From:   UF I-Cubed (Innovation through Institutional Integration) Program

RE:     ONE WEEK LEFT to Apply for 2013 Graduate Student Mentoring Award


The UF I-Cubed Program is accepting applications for the 2013 Graduate Student Mentoring Award. This award recognizes UF graduate students who take time to help others succeed as graduate or undergraduate students or in K-12 classrooms (i.e., working with K-12 students and/or teachers). The award is particularly designed to acknowledge the mentoring contribution from the graduate students in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) disciplines, including SBE (Social, Behavioral and Economic) sciences. Up to 8 awards will be given and the awardees will be officially announced during Graduate Student Research Day on October 29th, 2013.

Awards will be given to student-mentors who provided or currently provide:
-Peer-to-peer mentoring of graduate students
-Mentoring of undergraduate students
-Mentoring in a K-12 classroom (working with K-12 students and/or teachers)

Applications for this award are due by 5 p.m. on September 25, 2013. For full details about the award and application instructions, visit the Graduate Student Mentoring Award webpage: http://i3.institutes.ufl.edu/funding-2/nsf-funding/2012-i-cubed-graduate-student-mentoring-award/