Rackham Predoc Awardees (2023):
- Sarah Katz
- Jing Ci Neo
- Rodrigo Tinoco Figueroa
National Science Foundation GRFP Awardees
- Hadeel Saad - RMF Awardee
- Julia Campbell
- Alex Quizon - Fall Preview 2020
- Katarina Keating
The Departmental students awards are presented at the annual Dorr Dinner in the Winter term of the academic year.
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award – given to a Graduate Student Instructor who has taught two or more classes before January 31 of the year of the award. The recipient is nominated for the Rackham Graduate School Outstanding GSI Award. Previous recipients are
- 2023 Sarah Katz
- 2022 Madelyn Cook, Elizabeth Crowther
- 2021 Juliana Mesa, Nikolas Midttun
- 2020 Sarah Brehm
- 2019 Mark Robbins, Margaret (Meg) Veitch
Previous winners listed here.
John Dorr Graduate Academic Achievement Award – given to a graduate student who defended or will defend his/her PhD dissertation between January 31 of the year before and January 31 of the year of the award ceremony. Previous recipients are
- 2023 Billy Medwedeff
- 2022 Sooyeon Kim, Marlon Ramos
- 2021 Phoebe Aron, Rebekah Stein, Yi Wang
- 2020 YoungJae Kim, Kelly Matsunaga
- 2019 Brian Konecke, Ross Maguire, Spencer Washburn
- 2018 Trever Hines, Peng Ni
- 2017 Timothy Gallagher, Richard Fiorella
- 2016 Sae Yun Kwon
- 2015 Karthik Anantharaman, Ethan Hyland
- 2014 Jennifer Cotton
- 2013 Laura Sherman
- 2012 Alison Duvall
- 2011 Devon Renock
- 2010 Elizabeth Feriss, Adam Rountrey
- 2009 Jason Barnes, Lin Ma
- 2008 Eric Kneller
- 2007 Martin Reich
- 2006 Carmen Nezat
- 2005 Jason Smerdon
- 2004 Chris Palenik
- 2003 Andrea Dutton, Eric Tohver
- 2002 Andrew Jacobson, Boris Kieffer
- 2001 Jonathon Bloch, Margaret Streepy
- 2000 Weiming Zhou
- 1999 David Fox, Liping Wang
- 1998 Ruth Blake
- 1997 Anna Martini
- 1996 William Clyde, Gerald Dickens
- 1995 William Patterson
- 1994 Joseph Graney
- 1993 Carl Drummond
- 1992 Matthias Ohr
- 1991 Arthur Leibold
- 1990 Richard Kettler
- 1989 Michael Cosca
- 1988 Paul Koch
- 1987 William Bartells
Previous winners listed here.
Outstanding Graduate Student Service Award - Given to a graduate student in recognition of excellent service to the department or the graduate student community.
- 2023 Sarah Katz, Madelyn Cook
Outstanding MS Research Award - Given to a graduate student who defended or will defend their MS dissertation between January 31 of the year before and January 31 of the year of the award ceremony.
Golden Nebula Award – given to the best Turner Award proposal from a first-year graduate student. Previous recipients are
- 2023 Million Mengesha, Nathan LaFramboise, Jungpyo Hong
- 2022 Diana Velazquez, Lucas Gomes, Kaitlyn Koshurba
- 2021 Lucas Gomes, Kaitlin Koshurba, Diana Velazquez
- 2020 Alice Zhou
- 2019 Natalie Packard
Previous winners listed here.
Gold Star Award – given to the top-ranked Turner Award proposals for the year's grant cycle. Previous recipients are
- 2023 Yiruo Xu, Andres Felipe Gonzalez Duran, Emma Rieb
- 2022 Sydney Gable, Daniel Blakemore
- 2021 Daniel Blakemore, Sydney Gable
- 2020 Phoebe Aron, Madelyn Cook, Dhurba Raj Pandey
- 2019 Phoebe Aron, Rebecca Dzombak, Sharon Grim, Kirk Townsend
Previous winners listed here.