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Master's Thesis Awards and ETD Master's Thesis Awards

The Graduate School is pleased to announce that in 2012-13, up to nine outstanding master’s  students will be recognized with the Auburn University Graduate School’s Master’s Thesis Awards and ETD Master’s Thesis Awards.

The application process, selection criteria, and award categories are modeled after the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools’ Master’s Thesis Awards and ETD Master’s Thesis Awards, so that selected award-winners from Auburn may also be nominated for these regional awards at the appropriate time.

Thus the Master's Thesis Awards fields of competition for 2012-13 will be Math, Physical Sciences and Engineering and Humanities and Fine Arts; for 2013-14: Life Sciences, Social Sciences, & Business and Education. 

The ETD Master’s Thesis Awards are awarded annually, and all disciplines are eligible.

Winners of the award will be recognized at the Graduate School’s annual awards ceremony with an honorarium of $250 and a citation.  Upon the recommendation of the Awards Committee, the Graduate School may nominate winners of the awards for the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools’ Master Thesis Awards and ETD Master’s Thesis Awards. 

Each college/school is invited to select and nominate up to three students (in each award category as appropriate) for the Graduate School awards.  Each participating college/school should identify a liaison, who will receive nominations at the college/school and forward the application packets of the finalists to the Graduate School.  Please report the name of the liaison to the Graduate School by November 15, 2011.  Nominations are first received and reviewed at the college level; up to three finalists from each college/school may then be forwarded to the Graduate School for the competition.

Nomination forms are attached, along with Instructions for Nomination in the fields of competition for 2012-2013: Math/Physical Sciences/Engineering and Humanities and Fine Arts.  Nomination instructions for the annual ETD Master’s Thesis Award are attached as well. 

For more information, contact Dr. George Crandell, Associate Dean, in the Graduate School at crandgw@auburn.edu.

• MT Nomination form

• Mathematics/Physical Sciences/Engineering Nomination Instructions

• Humanities and Fine Arts Nomination Instructions

• ETD Nomination form

• ETD Nomination Instructions

For more information, contact Dr. George Crandell, Associate Dean, in the Graduate School at crandgw@auburn.edu.

Last Updated: Jan 24, 2011