Past Recipients: Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring

2023

Faculty

• Leila Bridgeman, Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
• Gustavo M. Silva, Assistant Professor in Biology
• Orin Starn, Professor of Cultural Anthropology and History
• Chris Timmins, Professor of Economics and Environmental Sciences

Students

• Bijan Abar, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science (Faculty Adviser, Ken Gall)
• Erika Chelales, Biomedical Engineering (Faculty Adviser, Nimmi Ramanujam)
• Rebecca Gibson, Molecular Genetics & Microbiology (Faculty Adviser, Priya Kishnani)
• Brandie Quarles Chidyagwai, Biology (Faculty Adviser, Kathleen Donohue)

2022

Faculty

• Anne-Maria Makhulu, Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African & African American Studies
• Steven Sexton, Mark and Lynne Florian Assistant Professor of Public Policy
• Joseph Winters, Alexander F. Hehmeyer Associate Professor of Religious Studies and African and African American Studies

Students

• Emily Levy, Biology (Faculty Adviser: Susan Alberts)
• Katrina Wilson, Biomedical Engineering (Faculty Adviser: Tatiana Segura)

2021

FACULTY

• Aaron D. Franklin, Addy Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and Chemistry
• Marcos A. Rangel, Associate Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy
• Makeba Parramore Wilbourn, Associate Professor of the Practice of Psychology and Neuroscience

STUDENTS

• Jaime Castrellon, Psychology and Neuroscience (Adviser: Gregory Samanez-Larkin)
• Tess Leuthner, Integrated Toxicology and Environmental Health (Adviser: Joel Meyer)
• Karla Sosa, Biology (Adviser: Mark Rausher)

2020

FACULTY

• William Darity, Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor of Public Policy
• Jennifer Roizen, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
• David Wong, Susan Fox Beischer and George D. Beischer Professor of Philosophy

STUDENTS

• Christina Bejjani, Psychology & Neuroscience (Adviser: Tobias Egner)
• Cherie Conley, Nursing (Adviser: Isaac Lipkus Reiner)
• Gwenaëlle Thomas, Neurobiology (Adviser: Kafui Dzirasa and Marc Caron)

2019

FACULTY

• Megan Mullin, Associate Professor of Environmental Politics, Political Science & Public Policy
• Leela Prasad, Associate Professor of Religious Studies
• Leigh Ann Simmons, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing
• Jennifer West, Fitzpatrick Family University Professor of Engineering

STUDENTS

• Raymond Allen, Biology /Developmental & Stem Cell Biology (Faculty Adviser: David McClay)
• Ashleigh Thomas, Mathematics (Faculty Adviser: Ezra Miller)

2018

FACULTY

• Martin Doyle, Professor of River and Water Sciences, Nicholas School of Environment
• Anna Gassman-Pines, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Psychology and Neuroscience
• Joseph Heitman, James B. Duke Professor and Chair, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
• Elizabeth Marsh, Professor and Associate Chair, Psychology and Neuroscience

STUDENTS

• Bradley B. Barth, Biomedical Engineering (Faculty Adviser: Xiling Shen)
• Patrick A. Green, Biology (Faculty Adviser: Sheila Patek)
• Brittany Morgan, Chemistry (Faculty Adviser: Amanda Hargrove)

2017

FACULTY

• Debra Brandon, Associate Professor and Director of the Ph.D. in Nursing Program
• Linda M. Burton, James B. Duke Professor of Sociology and Dean of Social Sciences
• Joseph Izatt, Michael J. Fitzpatrick Professor of Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering
• Kathy Psomiades, Associate Professor of English

STUDENTS

• Joyell Arscott, Nursing (Faculty Adviser: Elizabeth Merwin)
• Zachary Carico, Immunology (Faculty Adviser: Michael S. Krangel)
• Eleanor M. Caves, Biology (Faculty Adviser: Sönke Johnsen)

2016

FACULTY

• Katherine J. Franz, Alexander F. Hehmeyer Professor of Chemistry
• Sönke Johnsen, Professor of Biology
• James Moody, Robert O. Keohane Professor of Sociology
• Michael C. Reed, Professor and Bass Fellow, Mathematics

STUDENTS

• Brittany N. Davis, Biomedical Engineering (Faculty Adviser: George A. Truskey)
• Dalmacio Dennis Flores III, Nursing (Faculty Adviser: Julie Barroso)
• C. Wyatt Shields IV, Biomedical Engineering (Faculty Adviser: Gabriel Lopez)

2015

FACULTY

• Edward Balleisen, Associate Professor of History and Public Policy and Senior Fellow in the Kenan Institute for Ethics
• Sarah Deutsch, Professor of History
• Kerry L. Haynie, Associate Professor of Political Science and African and African American Studies
• Ranjana Khanna, Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women's Studies and Professor of English, Literature, and Women’s Studies

STUDENTS

• Jessica Bolton, Ph.D. Student, Psychology & Neuroscience (Faculty Adviser: Staci Bilbo)
• Kara Schroepfer-Walker, Ph.D. Student, Evolutionary Anthropology (Faculty Advisers: Anne Pusey, Brian Hare)

2014

FACULTY

• Charles Becker, Associate Chair, Director of MA Program, Research Professor, Department of Economics
• David Kirsch, Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology and Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology
• Ann Marie Rasmussen, Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature

STUDENTS

• Irene Liu, Biology (Faculty Adviser, Stephen Nowicki)
• Titilayo Shodiya, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science (Faculty Adviser, Nico Hotz)

2013

FACULTY

• Cameron R. “Dale” Bass, Associate Research Professor of Biomedical Engineering
• Laura Edwards, Professor of History and Women’s Studies
• Frank Sloan, J. Alexander McMahon Professor of Health Policy and Management and Professor of Economics
• Robyn Wiegman, Professor of Literature and Women’s Studies

STUDENTS

• Marisabel Guevara, Computer Science (Faculty Adviser, Benjamin C. Lee)
• Zakiya Whatley, Genetics & Genomics ( Faculty Adviser, Kenneth Kreuzer)

2012

FACULTY

• Susan Alberts, The Jack H. Neely Professor of Biology
• Farshid Guilak,  The Laszlo Ormandy Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Professor of Biomedical Engineering
• Charles Piot, Professor of Cultural Anthropology, African and African American Studies and Women Studies

STUDENTS

• Anne-Marie Angelo, Ph.D. Candidate, History
• Victor Ray, Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology

2011

FACULTY

• Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology
• Paula D. McClain, Professor of Political Science
• Kristine Stiles, Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies

STUDENT

• Terry Jackson, Genetics and Genomics
• Kaoru Ikuma, Civil and Environmental Engineering

2010

FACULTY

• David Brady, Associate Professor of Sociology
• Liz Clark, John Carlisle Kilgo Professor of Religion
• Scott Huettel, Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
• Mohamed Noor, Professor of Biology

STUDENT

• Will Gardner, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
• Jayme Johnson, Genetics and Genomics
• Laurie Stevison, Biology

2009

FACULTY

• John French, Professor of Latin American History
• Karen Remmer, Professor of Political Science
• Grant Wacker, Professor of Christian History and Director of Graduate Studies in Religion

STUDENT

• Alexis Franzese, Psychology and Neuroscience and Sociology
• Joseph Sexton, Ecology

2008

FACULTY

• Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Toril Moi, James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies, Professor of Theater Studies and English
• Priscilla Wald, Professor of English and Women’s Studies

STUDENTS

• Jason Cross, Cultural Anthropology
• Justin Jaworski, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
• Julianne Yost, Chemistry

Recipient profiles (PDF)

2007

FACULTY

• Susan Lozier, Professor of Earth and Ocean Sciences
• Laurie Shannon, E. Blake Byrne Associate Professor of English and Associate Professor of Theater Studies
• Herbert Edelsbrunner, Arts & Sciences Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics

 STUDENTS

• Lawrence M. Boyd, Biomedical Engineering
• Adam Hartstone-Rose, Biological Anthropology and Anatomy
• Kristina McDonald, Psychology and Neuroscience

Recipient profiles (PDF)

2006

• James R Bettman, Burlington Industries Professor, Fuqua School of Business
• Lisa M. Campbell, Rachel Carson Assistant Professor of Marine Affairs and Policy
• Linda Orr, Professor, French

Recipient profiles (PDF)

2005

• Linda K. George, Professor of Sociology and Psychology
• William M. Reichert, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry
• Alexander Rosenberg; R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy; Professor, Biology

Recipient profiles (PDF)

2004

• John H. Aldrich, Pfizer-Pratt University Professor of Political Science
• Salvatore Pizzo, Professor and Chair, Pathology
• Lori A. Setton, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Recipient profiles (PDF)