Five Harvard faculty members received Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Awards this March. The annual award is sponsored by the Graduate Student Council (GSC) and GSAS.

For 2008, the recipients are: Svetlana Boym, the Curt Hugo Reisinger professor of Slavic languages and literatures and professor of comparative literature; Philip A. Kuhn, the Francis Lee Higginson research professor of history and of East Asian languages and civilizations; Thomas McGuire, professor of health economics, Medical School; Lucien Taylor, assistant professor of visual and environmental studies and of anthropology; and Daniel Wegner, professor of psychology.

Faculty are nominated by GSAS students and then selected by a GSC student panel. This year, students submitted 40 nominations. Recipients were honored in March with commemorative pewter bowls from Tiffany and a reception at the Faculty Club. The award, now in its tenth year, is named for Everett Mendelsohn, research professor of the history of science and a former master of Dudley House. It was established by the GSC to honor Harvard faculty members who go out of their way to mentor GSAS students by supporting, encouraging, and promoting their graduate students’ research, education, professional and personal development, and career plans.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo credit: Susan Gilbert

The tenth annual Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Awards went to five Harvard faculty members this year. Pictured here at a Faculty Club reception held in their honor in March are (from left): Everett Mendelsohn, Research Professor of the History of Science and former Dudley House master, with Professors Thomas McGuire, Daniel Wegner, and Lucien Taylor. The other award recipients for this year are Professors Svetlana Boym and Philip A. Kuhn.