The Graduate College invites the Drexel community to nominate deserving graduate and professional students for excellence awards in mentorship, scholarship, civic engagement, community building, social change, service, research, and teaching assistance. Awards allow for self-nomination with support from faculty, professional staff, and supervisors.

Drexel Students: Did you have an outstanding graduate student as a mentor or teaching assistant? Please nominate them! 

More information about each award, including eligibility, evaluation criteria, and required materials, which must be prepared in advance of submitting a nomination form, can be found on the Graduate College website.

Submit a Nomination* 

*Please review the award information and required materials on the Graduate College website PRIOR to starting a nomination form in Qualtrics as the form will not save a draft and you will be asked to upload required documents at the time of submission. It is recommended you prepare any answers offline, such as in a Word document, before copying them into the form to submit.

Nominations must be submitted by 12 p.m. EDT Monday, April 22. Award winners will be notified on or around May 13 and invited to receive their award at the annual Graduate Student Day awards ceremony and reception Thursday, May 30! Save the date!

List of 2024 Awards:

• Outstanding Graduate Student Mentorship Awards- Sponsored by Undergraduate Research & Enrichment Programs in the Pennoni Honors College
• Drexel Common Good Awards in Scholarship, Civic Engagement & Community Building- Sponsored in part by the Lindy Center for Civic Engagement
• Social Change Awards for Equity- Sponsored in part by the Center for Black Culture
• Research Excellence Awards for Post-Candidacy, Pre-Candidacy, Terminal Master’s, Most Original & Creative Work (all levels), and a *new* award category in Expanding the Impact of Research (all levels) sponsored by Drexel Applied Innovation in the Office of Research & Innovation
• Outstanding Dissertation Awards
• Teck-Kah Lim Graduate Student Excellence Award
• Teaching Assistant Excellence Awards