Fellowships & Grants

Grants & Awards

Outstanding Thesis Award

The Outstanding Thesis Award recognizes and rewards a graduate student whose thesis has been identified by the Graduate School as outstanding among all those submitted during the previous academic year.

Award

Eligibility

Nomination Procedure

1. A nomination letter from the thesis advisor evaluating the thesis according to the following criteria:
   
   • clarity and composition of organization;
   • scholarship demonstrated in the thesis;
   • suitability of the author's methodology to the field; and
   • contribution the thesis makes to the discipline.
     
     
2. A memo from the department chair commenting on:
   
   • where the work described in the thesis fits into the discipline;
   • what the thesis project adds to the field;
   • whether the presentation and integration of ideas in the thesis conform to scholarly writing in the discipline.
     
     
3. The criteria the department uses to evaluate theses internally
   
   
4. Three copies of the nominated thesis. (If illustrations or color elements within the thesis are critical to its evaluation, at least one copy must include these elements or illustrations in their original form.)

5. IMPORTANT CHANGE: Please note that thesis projects submitted need to be in Portable Document Format (PDF) as a single continuous document. And, as a separate PDF document provide an abstract of the thesis.  If you are unable to submit your nomination electronically in PDF format, please contact the Graduate School

Deadline for Submission

Nominations will be reviewed by the University Fellowship & Scholarship Committee, and the award will be presented at the Graduate School's Fall Graduate Student Honors Day Luncheon.