The UAB Graduate Dean's Excellence in Mentorship Award recognizes full-time regular UAB faculty members who have demonstrated exceptional accomplishments as mentors of graduate students and/or postdoctoral fellows.
Ten received the 2020 mentorship award and they will be recognized during a virtual reception Sept. 9 at 5 p.m. Each recipient will receive a handcrafted, blown-glass green and gold candy dish, as well as a framed certificate and a copy of the letters their mentees and colleagues wrote to nominate them for the honor. Congratulations to all of the 2020 excellent mentors:
- Burel Goodin, PhD, Psychology
- Joel Berry, PhD, Biomedical Engineering
- April Carson, PhD, Epidemiology
- Ragib Hasan, PhD, Computer Science
- Rajeev Samant, PhD, Pathology
- Susan Davies, PhD, Health Behavior
- Mirjam-Colette Kempf, PhD, Nursing
- Kelly Hill, PhD, Curriculum & Instruction
- Michelle Brown, PhD, Health Services Administration
- Jerzy Szaflarski, PhD and MD, Neurology