The following awards are presented to students at the annual Dorr Dinner which takes place in Winter term of each academic year.
Graduate Student Awards
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award
To be 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.
| 2021 | Juliana Mesa, Nikolas Midttun |
| 2020 | Sarah Brehm |
| 2019 | Mark Robbins, Margaret (Meg) Veitch |
| 2018 | Alyssa Abbey, Sean Hurt, Kyle Meyer |
| 2017 | Erin Lynch, Will Bender, Joseph El Adli |
| 2016 | Samantha Nemkin, Ian Winkelstern |
| 2015 | Petr Yakovlev |
| 2014 | Carli Arendt |
| 2013 | Ethan Hyland, Sae Yun Kwon |
| 2012 | Laura Waters |
| 2011 | Alex Lechler |
| 2010 | Alison Duvall |
| 2009 | Daniel Horton |
| 2008 | Lin Ma |
| 2007 | David Whipp |
| 2006 | Jason Barnes, Andrea Stancin |
| 2005 | Kate Keller, Carmen Nezat |
| 2004 | Holli Frey, Zeb Page |
John Dorr Graduate Academic Achievement Award
Department-wide award 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.
| 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 |
Golden Nebula Award
Given to the best Turner Award proposal from a first-year graduate student.
| 2020 | Alice Zhou |
| 2019 | Natalie Packard |
Gold Star Award
Given to the top-ranked Turner Award proposals for the year's grant cycle.
| 2020 | Phoebe Aron, Madelyn Cook, Dhurba Raj Pandey |
| 2019 | Phoebe Aron, Rebecca Dzombak, Sharon Grim, Kirk Townsend |
