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Previous Mentor Award Winners

2024

Ana Caicedo, Gilgut Professor - Department of Biology
Jesse Mager, Interim Assistance VCRE - Department of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

2023

Carey Clouse, Professor - Architecture Department, Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning
Lisa Green, Associate Dean for Grad Education - Linguistics
Allison Roy, Research Associate Professor - Environmental Conservation

2022 

Traci Parker, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director - Afro-American Studies
Jessica Schiffman, Professor - Chemical Engineering
Jane Hwang Degenhardt, Professor and Graduate Program Director - Department of English

2021

Teresa Ramsby, Professor and Graduate Program Director - Department of Classics
Lili He, Professor and Graduate Program Director - Department of Food Science
Sonya Atalay, Provost Professor - Anthropology Department

2020 

Paige Warren, Professor & Department Head - Department of Environmental Conservation
John Higginson, Professor Emeritus - History Department 
Asha Nadkarni, Associate Professor - English Department

2019 

S. Thai Thayumanavan, Professor - Chemistry
Krista Harper, Professor School of Public Policy & Department of Anthropology
Christian Appy, Professor - History Department

2018 

Keisha Green, Associate Professor & Co-Founder, Center of Racial Justice and Youth Engaged Research College of Education
Donna LeCourt, Professor and Department Chair - English Department
Alexandra Pope, Professor & Academic Co-Advisor Class of 2024 Chair - Five College Astronomy Department

2017 

Tilman Wolf, Professor & Sr. VP for Academic Affairs - Electrical and Computer Engineering
Naomi Gerstel, Professor - Sociology Department
Donald Towsley, Professor - Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences

2016 

Steve McKelvey, Department Chair and Professor of Sports Management - Isenberg School of Management
Sandra Peterson, Professor Emerita - Department of Veterinary and Animals Sciences
Manisha Sinha, Professor - Department of History

2015 

Kathleen Lugosch, Professor Emerita - Department of Agriculture
Elena Carbone, Professor and Associate Dean for Curriculum & Academic Oversight - Commonwealth Honors College School of Public Health & Health Sciences
Dhandapani Venkataraman, Professor - Chemistry

2014 

Erin Baker, Professor - Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Lyn Frazier, Professor Emerita - Department of Linguistics
Eric Decker, Professor - Department of Food Science

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