Graduate Student Awards

Each year, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering honor their graduate students through the Graduate Student Awards. The awards celebrate outstanding graduate student achievement in areas such as academic performance, research, student leadership, community service and citizenship, and contributions to undergraduate education. Click here for a list of this year's winners.

Previous Award Winners:
2011
2010
2009
2008

Questions about the awards can be sent to Kim Ruth Ellwood at kim.ellwood@tufts.edu or 617.627.3106.

A full listing and description of each Graduate Student Award is included below:

The Robert P. Guertin Graduate Student Leadership Award
The Rob Hollister Award for Graduate Student Citizenship
The Award for Outstanding Academic Performance
The Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education
The Award for Faculty Teaching and Mentoring
The Award for Outstanding Graduate Contributor to Engineering Education
The Award for Outstanding Graduate Researcher
The Gordon Institute Outstanding Student Award

Leadership, Public Service, and Mentoring Awards
(the following awards are for arts, sciences, and engineering graduate students or faculty)

The Robert P. Guertin Graduate Student Leadership Award
This award recognizes outstanding graduate student leadership in the arts, humanities, natural sciences, social sciences, or engineering. Evidence of nominees' leadership may include accomplishments in such areas as academic or social programming, curricular initiatives, supporting the work and lives of fellow students, community service, and/or developing improved policies. Nominees may be individuals or groups.

Rob Hollister Award for Community Service and Citizenship
This award recognizes graduate students who have contributed their time and effort to the community outside of Tufts. This contribution could be in the form of volunteer work, activism in community issues, or participation in public service activities. Nominees may be individuals or groups of students enrolled in either the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences or the School of Engineering.

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Awards
(the following awards are for arts and sciences graduate students only)

Outstanding Academic Performance
Master's level: This award recognizes students' overall academic achievement, as evidenced by course grades, quality of papers, theses and projects in the arts, humanities, natural sciences, or social sciences.
Ph.D. level: This award recognizes students' overall academic achievement, as evidenced by course grades, quality of papers, theses and projects in the arts, humanities, natural sciences, or social sciences.

Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education
This award recognizes excellence as a teaching assistant or in other roles such as mentoring undergraduates for students in the arts, humanities, natural sciences, or social sciences.

Faculty Teaching and Mentoring
This award recognizes faculty members who have demonstrated outstanding support of a graduate student (or graduate students) from course completion through research and post-degree placement.

School of Engineering Awards
(the following awards are for engineering graduate students only)

Outstanding Graduate Contributor to Engineering Education
This award is focused on full-time graduate students who through TA work, voluntary service, and/or other activities have enhanced significantly the education programs of the department.

Outstanding Graduate Researcher
Master's level: This award is focused on full-time, thesis program students who have distinguished themselves in research, especially technical publication.
Ph.D. level: This award is focused on full-time, thesis program students who have distinguished themselves in research, especially technical publication.

Gordon Institute Outstanding Student Award
This award recognizes a student who has demonstrated superior academic performance and outstanding leadership in the Master of Science in Engineering Management program.