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 20TH. 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. Jim Litster (DGS) Jim Litster, PhD Professor of Chemical Engineering Professor of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy Director of Graduate Studies in Chemical Engineering Purdue University Forney Hall of Chemical Engineering, Room 1053 480 Stadium Mall Drive West Lafayette IN 47907-2100 USA +1 765 496-2836 (phone) +1 765 494-0805 (fax) jlitster@purdue.edu -----Original Message----- From: Fentiman, Audeen W [mailto:fentiman@purdue.edu] Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 10:15 AM To: Taylor, Daniel C.; Armstrong, Charles T; Ricksy, Jennifer R; 'ChE, Deb Bowman'; Cook, Toni K; 'ECE, Matt Golden'; McKinniss, Loretta F; Flack, Linda L; Garrett, Mark D; Barnhart, Cheryl L; May, Sandra M; 'ME, Julayne Moser'; 'MSE, Patti Finney'; 'MSE, Vicki Cline'; Randler, Chrystal E; Reece, Kellie A; Lyrintzis, Anastasios S; 'AAE, Wayne Chen'; Irudayaraj, Joseph M K; 'BME, Tom Talavage'; Govindaraju, Rao S; Litster, James Donald; 'ChE, Rex Reklaitis'; Beaudoin, Stephen P; 'ECE, Chee Mun Ong'; Melloch, Michael R; 'ECE, Sam Midkiff'; 'ENE, David Radcliffe'; Ohland, Matthew W; Adams, Robin S.; 'ENE, Senay Purzer'; 'IE Barrett Caldwell'; Landry, Steven J; 'ME, Dave Anderson'; 'MSE, Jeff Youngblood'; 'NE, Takashi Hibiki'; 'ProEd, Dale Harris' Cc: Fisher, Susan K; Michael, Peggy A; Fentiman, Audeen W Subject: Outstanding Service Award for 2012 Dear Graduate Chairs and Administrators, Good morning and happy new year. Attached and pasted into this e-mail is a request for nominations for the Outstanding Service Award. Nominations are due by noon on Friday, January 27. Regards, Audeen MEMO To: Graduate Chairs and Administrators From: Audeen Fentiman Date: January 3, 2012 Subject: Outstanding Service Scholarship Awards For the past three years, we have awarded a dozen Outstanding Service Scholarships, each award being $2,000, to graduate students who have provided outstanding service to the graduate student community, the School, the College, and/or the University. Each school has been asked to send two nominations to the College Office of Graduate Education, and a committee selected the awardees. When the Outstanding Service Scholarship program was new and not all schools had active graduate organizations, not all schools submitted nominations, and some schools had more than one awardee. Last year, each school submitted at least one nomination, and it seemed that each school had a very deserving graduate student. In light of the fact that all schools nominated graduate students for the Outstanding Service Scholarship last year and in an effort to minimize time spent preparing nominations, we will use a different approach this year. We ask each school to nominate one candidate for the Outstanding Service Scholarship. The nomination is due to Peg Michael (michaelp@purdue.edu) by noon on Friday, January 27. Nominees must 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 2012 4. Have been enrolled in your graduate program for at least 2 years at the time of the nomination, and 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, and * A brief description of the process by which the student was selected.