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Graduate School Announces 11 Dean’s Award Winners

The Graduate School has announced the recipients of its 2019 Dean's Awards recognizing outstanding efforts in mentoring, teaching, and creating an inclusive environment for graduate education at Duke. The recipients will be honored at a ceremony on Wednesday, March 27.

Here's a look at this year's recipients.

Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring

Each faculty award winner receives a $3,000 prize, while each student recipient gets $2,000.

Faculty

Megan Mullin

Associate Professor of Environmental Politics, Political Science & Public Policy
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Leela Prasad

Associate Professor of Religious Studies
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Leigh Ann Simmons

Associate Professor in the School of Nursing
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Jennifer West

Fitzpatrick Family University Professor of Engineering
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Ph.D. Students

Raymond Allen

Biology /Developmental & Stem Cell Biology
Faculty Adviser: David McClay
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Ashleigh Thomas

Mathematics
Faculty Adviser: Ezra Miller
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Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching

Each winner receives $2,000. This award is for Ph.D. students only.

Brandon Fain

Computer Science
Faculty Adviser: Kamesh Munagala
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Natasha Parikh

Psychology and Neuroscience
Faculty Adviser: Kevin LaBar
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Emily Pechar

Environmental Policy
Faculty Adviser: Frederick Mayer
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Jessica Stark

English
Faculty Adviser: Priscilla Wald
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Dean’s Award for Inclusive Excellence in Graduate Education

Each winning department or program receives $5,000 to be used at its discretion.

Biology Ph.D. Program
(nominated by the Biology Graduate Student Diversity Committee)
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