Distinguished Mentor of the Year (DMOY) Award
Faculty who serve as model mentors to their undergraduate research à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã are eligible to receive the Distinguished Mentor of the Year in Undergraduate Research and Inquiry (DMOY) award. Each year, one university-wide award will be given, and the DMOY will be recognized with a $2,500 award at the annual Honors Convocation.
Eligibility
- Any permanent, full-time faculty including tenured/tenure track faculty, non-tenured faculty, instructors, multi-year appointees, scientist/scholars, and research faculty who have been employed for one continuous year.
- Faculty must have engaged as direct mentors of à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã in undergraduate research and inquiry, to include co-curricular (e.g grants, publications, presentations), curricular (e.g. RI Courses, DIR and DIS), as well as individual and group student mentoring.
- Previous award winners are no longer eligible.
Timeline
- January 8th, 2025 Call for faculty applications/nominations
- February 3rd, 2025 Complete applications due to the Deans/Directors office
- February 17th, 2025 Deans submit College nominee and application materials to OURI
- February 24th, 2025 Faculty Honors and à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã committee begin review
- March 7th , 2025 Honors and à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã Committee selects 2023 Awardee
- April 9th, 2025 Award presented at the Honors Convocation
Contact information for College Submission
Faculty interested in applying for College consideration should send complete DMOY application packages to the following college contacts by the deadline date listed above.
Student interested in nominating faculty should send the name of their nomination to the appropriate college contact below. (Note: Please submit the nomination early enough for the faculty member to assemble their application package.)
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Mrs. Holly Pereira: | pereirah@fau.edu |
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Ms. Sonia Villanti: | svillanti@fau.edu |
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Mrs. Josephine Elliott: | jelliot@fau.edu |
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Dr. Fred Bloetscher: | fbloetsc@fau.edu |
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Ms. Anna Holmes: | holmesa@fau.edu |
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Dr. Mahyar Nouri-Shirazi: | mnourish@health.fau.edu |
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Ms. Bernadette Bastien: | bastienb@health.fau.edu |
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Dr. Predrag Cudic: | pcudic@fau.edu |
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Dr. Ryan Meldrum: | meldrumr@fau.edu |
Further Information
Complete details and guidelines for the DMOY award can be found here.
2025 Distinguished Mentor of the Year
Harriet L. Wilkes Honors college
2025 Distinguished Mentor of the Year Finalists
- Justin P. White, Ph.D. Dorothy Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- . College of Business
- Jimwoo Jang, Ph.D. College of Engineering and Computer Science
- Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
- Precious Skinner-Osei, Ph.D. College of Social Work and Criminal Justice
Previous Distinguished Mentor of the Year Winners
| 2024 | Mahyar Nouri-Shirazi, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine |
| 2023 | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | |
| 2022 | Keith Jakee, Ph.D. | Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College |
| 2021 | James H. VanZwieten Jr., Ph.D. | College of Engineering and Computer Science |
| 2020 | College of Business | |
| 2019 | Myeongsub Kim, Ph.D. | College of Engineering and Computer Science |
| 2018 | Julie L. Earles, Ph.D. | Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College |
| 2017 | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science | |
| 2016 | Daniel de Lill, Ph.D. | Charles E. Schmidt College of Science |
| 2015 | Daniel Meeroff, Ph.D. | College of Engineering and Computer Science |
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