[Che-student-staff-list] Outstanding Service Scholarship Nominations Request

[Bowman, Debra J]

Dear all

Please see email below from Audeen Fentiman regarding Graduate Student Outstanding Service Award, including criteria.

Graduate students - you may self nominate by sending an email briefly outlining your service contributions with a CV attached.

Faculty, staff, graduates students - you may nominate any (other) graduate student by sending a short email with the reason for the nomination.  Deb Bowman will then request a CV from the nominated student.

NOMINATIONS ARE REQUIRED BY JANUARY 23RD.  If we have more than one nomination, the graduate student awards committee will meet to choose one nominee to forward to the College of Engineering.

Please send all correspondences to Deb Bowman (dbowman1 at purdue.edu).

Regards,
Mike Harris
Director of Graduate Studies
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Associate Dean of Engineering for Undergraduate Education College of Engineering Purdue University

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                              MEMO
TO:  Graduate Chairs and Administrators
FROM:  Audeen Fentiman
DATE:  January 8, 2013
SUBJECT: Outstanding Service Scholarship Nominations Requested

The College of Engineering awards an Outstanding Service Scholarship of $2,000 to a graduate student in each school who has provided outstanding service to the graduate student community, the School, the College, and/or the University.  We ask each school to nominate one candidate for the Outstanding Service Scholarship.  The nomination is due to Julie Lahner (jlahner at purdue.edu) by noon on Friday, February 1, 2013. 

Nominees should meet the following criteria:

1.	Be pursuing a graduate degree (M.S. or Ph.D.) in your School
2.	Be among the top academic performers in the School (not necessarily have a 4.0 GPA)
3.	Will not be graduating before December 2013
4.	Have been enrolled in your graduate program for at least 2 years at the time of the nomination
5.	Have contributed over time to the quality, reputation, or success of the graduate student community, School, College, and/or University.

Nominations will consist of a letter from the Head of the School or the Graduate Committee Chair containing the following:

*	A recommendation that this student be selected for the Outstanding Service Scholarship
*	Factual information showing that the student meets each of the 5 criteria listed above
*	A brief description of the process by which the student was selected

We greatly appreciate your efforts in supporting this recognition of a student from your School.  

cc: Heads of Schools