The Graduate Student Council and the Office of Graduate Studies are pleased
to announce the winners of the Graduate Faculty Mentoring award. The two
winners are Yale Cohen, Psychological Brain Sciences, and
George O’Toole, Molecular and Cellular Biology. The Graduate
Student Council created this award to recognize and highlight the outstanding
mentoring activities that are undertaken by faculty advisors at Dartmouth. 
The selected
winners each had several nominations addressing their positive attributes as
mentors. Yale and George each exemplify outstanding mentoring qualities to
their graduate students. We would like to draw attention to some of the
attributes that make them excellent mentors.
A Molecular and Cellular Biology graduate student described in one nomination letter how students benefit from having George as a mentor: “George also makes it a priority to meet with every graduate student regularly to discuss life after graduate school. This has aided me greatly in examining my own goals and structuring my work during graduate school in order to best meet them. In addition, George always expresses confidence in my abilities – ensuring me that I can do whatever I wish. Once I inform him of my goals, however, he makes every effort to support me in reaching them.”
A Psychological and Brain Sciences graduate student nominated Yale because the student feels “incredibly lucky to have been a grad student during his tenure as graduate chair, because he has represented the interests of the graduate students in the department better than I think any of us could have ever imagined…Dartmouth needs to hold on to gems like Yale Cohen – he is a true academic, an excellent mentor, and perhaps above all else, a solid-gold role model.”
By recognizing these two outstanding mentors we hope to underscore the enormous contributions they have made to our graduate community. In addition, we would like to acknowledge all of the faculty members who were nominated by their students. Numerous graduate students and alumni wrote letters of nomination for their mentors. The letters truly spoke of the wonderful mentoring happening at Dartmouth everyday.
Photos
Top (left to right): Kyle Cady and Professor O'Toole
Bottom (left to right): Jung Hoon Lee, Ashlee Ackelson, Lauren
Orr, Professor Cohen, Brian Russ, Anne Krendl, Selina Davis
Previous Winners:
2007: Randolph Noelle (Microbiology) and Duane Compton (Biochemistry)
2006: Brian Pogue (Thayer School of Engineering) and Gordon Gribble (Chemistry)
2005: Dorothy Wallace (Mathematics), Ross Virginia (Environmental Studies), and Ann Clark (PBS)
2004: Joyce Deleo (Pharm/Tox) and Matt Ayres (Biology)
