Dean's Recognition Award for Outstanding Research by a Graduate Student Guidelines
Date due
March 3, 2025
Cover page:
- Student Name
- School or Department
- What is the degree you are seeking?
- Name of the faculty advisor
- Student signature/date and faculty advisor signature/date
- Acquire original signatures
- The cover page should be one (1) page when completed
Application instructions:
- Type in all requested information.
- Answer each question. Provide specific details about why you deserve to be recognized for outstanding research, scholarship, or creative activity during this academic year 2024-2025.
- Your faculty advisor or faculty mentor may assist you in completing this application.
- The application should be no more than two (2) pages when completed.
- For the purposes of this award we define research, scholarship, and creative activity as significant, individual engagement that 1) culminates in a project that makes an original intellectual, scholarly, or creative contribution to the discipline(s) or in an interdisciplinary area, 2) is guided by a mentor (e.g., faculty) who provides feedback, and 3) helps students develop scholarly and/or creative independence, originality, and autonomy. The student’s activity in the project should address a specific question, problem, or goal that is relevant to the discipline(s), utilize appropriate methodologies, adhere to the standards of the discipline(s), and aim to contribute to dissemination through publication, presentation, performance, or exhibition.
- Examples of research could include investigating the effectiveness of a new intervention, developing a new diagnostic tool or treatment, analyzing existing data, examining the social and cultural factors that influence health, etc.
- Examples of scholarship broadly could include a quality improvement project, needs assessment, systematic review of research, etc.
- Examples of creative works could include education and training material, health campaign material, etc.
Please note: It is very important in your application to acknowledge faculty mentors and contributors. Acknowledgments should include student collaborators and any organization that has provided funding or other support to help you accomplish your research, scholarship, or creative activity.
Important: If the applicant does not address the questions or observe the instructions, the application will not be considered. The Interdisciplinary Research Committee will offer its recommendations to the Dean for the final selection, and the Dean will make the final selection for the Dean’s Recognition Award.
Submission instructions:
- Combine the completed cover page (1 page) + the completed application (2 pages) into one PDF application document. Total application length = three (3) pages.
- Name the combined PDF document: Dean’s Recognition Award for Outstanding Research, Scholarship, or Creative Activity by Graduate – LAST NAME*.pdf (* Last name of applicant)
- Application instructions: Students must complete an online application for the 2024-25 CHSP Dean’s Recognition Award for Outstanding Research by a Graduate Student and be prepared to upload the combined cover page/application.