Innovative Ideas in Graduate Education Award Recipients

In part to commemorate its centennial in fall 2005, The Graduate School this spring invited proposals for Innovative Ideas in Graduate Education that will strengthen graduate education at the University of Minnesota and advance the University’s Strategic Positioning goals.  Winners received an honorarium and a commemorative gift.  The Graduate School hosted a celebration and awards ceremony on Tuesday, May 9th at the Weisman Art Museum to recognize the winning proposals.

First prize: Mark Rutherford, Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, for his proposal for increasing the matriculation of high-quality graduate students in the basic biological and biomedical sciences.

Vice Provost and Dean Gail Dubrow and Mark Rutherford

Second prize: Patricia Jones Whyte, Acting Director of The Graduate School Diversity Office, and Noro Andriamanalina, Coordinator of the Community Scholars Program, for their proposal to provide dissertation workshops and support groups to assist doctoral students through the dissertation process.

Noro Andriamanalina and Patricia Jones Whyte

Third prize: The College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Science Graduate Working Group, for their proposal for a University-wide Interdisciplinary Faculty Fellows Program::
Susan Galatowitsch (Chair, College of Food, Agricultural and Natural
Resource Science Graduate Working Group), Department of Horticultural Science
Deborah Allan; Department of Soil, Water, and Climate
Rex Bernardo, Department of Horticultural Science
Amy Damon, Department of Applied Economics
Raymond Newman, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Rebecca Montgomery, Department of Forest Resources
Carolyn Silflow, Department of Plant Biology
Arthur Walzer, Department of Rhetoric
Lisa Wiley, College of Natural Resources Student Services

Lisa Wiley, Susan Galatowitsch, Vice Provost and Dean Gail Dubrow, Deborah Allen, and Rex Bernardo

Honorable Mention: for their proposal to develop a pedagogy and practice for public engagement.
Nicholas Jordan, Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics
Kathryn Draeger, Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics
Francis Harvey, Department of Geography
Catherine Jordan; Children, Youth and Family Consortium
Naomi Scheman, Departments of Philosophy and Women’s Studies
John Wallace, Department of Philosophy

For more information on the Innovative Ideas in Graduate Education competition, please visit: http://www.grad.umn.edu/dgs/innovation.html