S. Laurie Sanderson Graduate Student Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring
Nomination Guidelines & Form
Undergraduate students and faculty are invited to nominate current A&S graduate students using this online nomination form. Complete nominations are due by no later than Friday, February 14, 2025 (5 p.m., ET). A complete nomination will consist of a nomination form from a current or past W&M undergraduate student, and a second nomination form from a current or past W&M faculty member. Note that the text blocks used in the online form limit the number of characters to 4000 per response. Nomination forms received after the deadline will not be considered.
A&S graduate students who are registered in 2024-25 are eligible for nomination and the graduate student must not have graduated before May 2025. The nominations can recognize current or previous mentoring. Graduate students will not be told that they are being nominated. Except in the case of an unavoidable conflict, award winners should be present at the Graduate & Honors Research Symposium awards ceremony to receive the award.
Up to four awards of $250 each will be granted annually to be distributed between the following categories in A&S: the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences (American Studies, Anthropology, and History); and the Natural, Computational, and Psychological Sciences (Applied Science, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Physics, Psychological Sciences). The number of awards to be distributed per category may vary year-to-year based on the number and quality of nominations.
Only complete nominations consisting of a nomination form from a current or past W&M undergraduate student AND a separate nomination form from a current or past W&M faculty member will be evaluated. Nomination forms must be submitted by individuals and cannot have multiple co-signers, although additional undergraduate students and faculty members may submit separate forms nominating the same graduate student. The content of the nomination forms will be used to determine the award recipients, but the number of nomination forms received for a graduate student will not be a factor.
A panel of W&M faculty will rank the nominations and determine their distribution between the two disciplinary categories. The judging panel retains the right to make fewer awards, depending on number and content of nominations received.
Deadline: Friday, February 14, 2025 by 5 p.m. (ET)
