Eligibility:
Any member of the Academic Senate or teaching staff affiliated with a graduate degree-granting program (including professional programs) can be nominated for the award so long as the nominee directs advanced degree work. Nominees can include lecturers with and without security of employment; assistant, associate, and full professors, and emeriti. Nominees must have an outstanding record of mentoring graduate students at UC Berkeley. Individuals who have won an award in 2008 or 2009 are not eligible for the 2010 awards. Previous nominees who have not received the award may be re-nominated.

Selection Criteria:
The FMA recognizes distinction in mentoring and advising only. It is, in other words, not intended to be a teaching or research award. It is also not intended to recognize excellence in mentoring Graduate Student Instructors (GSI).

The selection committee would like specifically to know how the nominee has exceeded the standard role played by an adviser with respect to the three following critera:

1. To what extent has the nominee helped the nominator(s) become a professional in their field?
2. To what extent has the nominee helped shape the graduate work of the nominator(s)?
3. To what extent has the nominee provided outstanding personal support/development (in any form)?

The selection committee is interested in specific examples of extraordinary mentorship, but since the committee is composed of graduate students from a variety of disciplines, and interested only in identifying excellence in advising, we recommend that your letters not focus too much on research specifics.

Nomination Process:
In order to nominate a faculty member, you must be a graduate student who has directly benefited from some aspect of the candidate’s mentoring or advising, in order to communicate that experience first-hand. The primary nominator must be a present or former graduate student; associate nominators can include undergraduates or consist of jointly written letters.

Nominations must include:
1) A completed nomination form (you can download it here or request it by email as an MS Word attachment from fma@ga.berkeley.edu);
2) Three (3) letters of recommendation, each no longer than 800 words; letters must include the first and last names, email addresses, mailing addresses, and contact telephone numbers of each recommender.
3) A list of graduate students for whom the nominee has served as major faculty advisor (i.e. thesis committee chair) for the last five years.
4) Please note the following special nomination instructions:

• All nomination must be submitted electronically to fma@ga.berkeley.edu with the subject heading “FMA Nomination.” We will not accept nomination in any other way.
• Nomination must be sent in a single email and as a single zipped email attachment,* which includes the Nomination Form and all letters of recommendation as a complete packet. The email should be sent by a designated primary nominator.
• We highly recommend that you notify the faculty member being nominated.

The nomination deadline is Friday, February 19, 2010. We will not be accepting emails after 5pm PST. The awards ceremony will be held April 29, 2010, and winners will be announced in mid-March.

• Inez Fung, Dept of Earth and Planetary Science
  
• Carla Hesse, Dept of History
  
• Loren Patridge, Dept of History of Art
  

• Marianne Constable, Dept of Rhetoric
  
• and Junior Faculty Winner Amani Nuru-Jeter, Dept of Public Health
  

• Dru Dougherty of Dept of Spanish and Portuguese
• Paola Bacchetta of Dept of Gender and Women's Studies
• Carlos F. Daganzo of Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Susanna Barrows of Dept of History
• Alexandre Chorin of Dept of Mathematics
• and Junior Faculty Winner Irene Bloemraad of Dept of Sociology

• Richard Norgaard of Energy and Resource Group
• Willian B. Taylor of History
• Christine Wildsoet of Optometry

• Jose David Saldivar (Sr. Faculty Award) of Dept of Ethnic Studies
• Maximilian Auffhammer (Jr. Faculty Award) of Dept of Agricultural and Resource Economics
• Sofia Berto Villas-Boas (Jr. Faculty Award) of Dept of Agricultural and Resource Economics

• Nelson Graburn of Anthropology
• Ananya Roy of City and Regional Planning, Environmental Design
• John Lindow of Scandinavian Studies

• Severin Borenstein of HAAS
• David Collier of Political Science
• Jabari Mahiri of Education
• Thomas Scanlon of Mathematics

• Patricia Baquedano-Lopez of LLSC, Education
• Sally Fairfax of Society and Environment, Div of Environmental Science, Policy and Management
• John Harte of Division of Ecosystem Sciences, ESPM College of Natural Resources Energy and Resource group
• Donald Moore of Social Cultural Anthropology