The Provost’s Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring will annually recognize outstanding mentoring of graduate students seeking a research doctorate degree. Up to four awards will be made each year.
Each Provost’s Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring will consist of a cash prize to the graduate faculty member of $2,500 to recognize excellence in mentoring. All persons selected for this award will be honored publicly.
- The 2026 Doctoral Mentoring Award Guidelines outline details including eligibility, nomination requirements, selection procedures and criteria, and more.
2026 Doctoral Mentoring Award Recipients
- Michael Gunzenhauser, School of Education, Educational Foundations, Organizations, and Policy
- Steffi Oesterreich, School of Medicine, Pharmacology and Chemical Biology
- Lisa Rohan, School of Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Albert To, Swanson School of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
- 2025 Doctoral Mentoring Award Recipients
- Heidi Donovan, School of Nursing, Health and Community Systems
- Burcu Savun, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, Political Science
- Vanitha Swaminathan, Katz Graduate School of Business, Marketing
- David Vorp, Swanson School of Engineering, Bioengineering
- 2024 Doctoral Mentoring Award Recipients
- Giannis (Yanni) Mpourmpakis, Swanson School of Engineering, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
- Caterina Rosano, School of Public Health, Epidemiology
- Sunil Saxena, Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, Chemistry
- Elizabeth Skidmore, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Occupational Therapy
- 2023 Doctoral Mentoring Award Recipients
- Catherine Bender, School of Nursing, Health and Community Systems
- Maria Mori Brooks, School of Public Health, Epidemiology
- Daniel Mossé, School of Computing and Information, Computer Science
- Daniel Shaw, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, Psychology
2022 Doctoral Mentoring Award Recipients- Peyman Givi, Swanson School of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
- Jeremy Levy, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, Physics and Astronomy
- Beatriz Luna, School of Medicine, Psychiatry
- Charles Perfetti, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, Psychology
- 2021 Doctoral Mentoring Award Recipients
- Tia-Lynn Ashman, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, Biological Sciences
- Robert Batterman, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, Philosophy
- Yvette Conley, School of Nursing, Health Promotion and Development
- Martin Weiss, School of Computing and Information, Informatics and Networked Systems
- 2020 Doctoral Mentoring Award Recipients
- Diane Litman, School of Computing and Information, Computer Science
- Chandralekha Singh, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, Physics & Astronomy
- Randall Walsh, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, Economics
The Provost's Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring reception (March 31, 2020) was postponed as part of Pitt’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Recipients were recognized during the 2021 virtual event.
- 2019 Doctoral Mentoring Award Recipients
- William Layton, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, Mathematics
- John Markoff, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, Sociology
- Michael Sayette, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, Psychology
- George C. Tseng, Graduate School of Public Health, Biostatistics
- 2006-2018 Award Recipients
2018 Award Recipients
- Jonathan Arac, English
- Lucy Fischer, English/Film Studies
- Robert M. Hayden, Anthropology
- Satish Iyengar, Statistics
2017 Award Recipients
- Peter L. Brusilovsky, Information Sciences
- William N. Dunn, Public and International Affairs
- Andrea Kriska, Epidemiology
- John E. Prescott, Business
2016 Award Recipients
- George Reid Andrews, History
- Richard Donato, Instruction and Learning
- Dennis Galletta, Business
- Abdus S. Wahed, Biostatistics
2015 Award Recipients
- Panos K. Chrysanthis, Computer Science
- Donald V. Moser, Business
- Catherine V. Palmer, Communication Science and Disorders
- Peter Wipf, Chemistry
2014 Award Recipients
- Marcia Landy, English
- Stephen B. Manuck, Psychology
- Trevor J. Orchard, Epidemiology
- Allan R. Sampson, Statistics
2013 Award Recipients
- Alan Juffs, Linguistics
- Alberta Sbragia, Political Science
- Angus Thomson, Surgery
- Alan Wells, Pathology
2012 Award Recipients
- Judy Erlen, Nursing
- Rami Melhem, Computer Science
- Guy Peters, Political Science
- Stephen Weber, Chemistry
2011 Award Recipients
- Jane Cauley, Public Health
- Jennifer Grandis, Medicine
2010 Award Recipients
- Jean Ferguson Carr, English
- John Harry Evans III, Business
- John Lyne, Communication
- Richard Scaglion, Anthropology
2009 Award Recipients
- Susan Campbell, Psychology
- Dennis Curran, Chemistry
- Raman Venkataramanan, Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Bell Yung, Music
2008 Award Recipients
- Louise Comfort, Public and International Affairs
- Donald DeFranco, Pharmacology
- Leon Gleser, Statistics
- Kenneth Jordan, Chemistry
2007 Award Recipients
- Kathleen Blee, Sociology
- Nancy Day, Psychiatry
- Robert Drennan, Anthropology
- Noreen Garman, Administrative and Policy Studies
2006 Award Recipients
- Celia Brownell, Psychology
- Kathy Linduff, History of Art and Architecture
- Esther Sales, Social Work
- Alan Sved, Neuroscience