The Graduate College is pleased to announce the 17th year of competition for the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award. This competition is intended to honor outstanding scholarship by UNI graduate students and to provide increased visibility for UNI graduate programs.
Nominees must have earned their doctoral degree between October 1, 2006 and September 30, 2007. The evaluation committee will include Grants, Contracts, & Awards officers and members of the Regular Graduate Faculty. Each dissertation will be judged on the following criteria: clarity, scholarship, methodology, significance, and contribution to the field of study.
A single award, accompanied by a plaque and $200.00, will be made for the doctoral dissertations. The evaluation committee may elect not to make an award.
Nominations for this competition are now being accepted. A single copy of the nominated work, a cover letter from the faculty dissertation advisor, the current mailing address of the graduate student, and the student's one page resume must be submitted to the Graduate College Office by 5:00 PM Monday, October 1, 2007. Decisions will be announced by November 16, 2007 and all works will be returned shortly thereafter.
Contact Victoria DeFrancisco, Associate Dean, at (319) 273-2748, or at victoria.defrancisco@uni.edu.