Kansas State University

As I prepare for retirement on January 9th, I want to highlight a few accomplishments while serving as Dean of the Graduate School since 2007.  The focus of my work has been on enhancing the graduate student experience and advocating for our graduate students, one of the themes of 2025 Strategic Plan. I have had the opportunity to work with an excellent team and many dynamic Graduate Student Council leaders and to partner with student services offices to promote more and new opportunities for our graduate students.

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Through discussion with Dean Carol Shanklin, six years ago I invested in the Graduate School’s Excellence Fund for Enhancing Science Communication.  “Our students must demonstrate the ability to communicate the value of their research and other scholarly work to the public and to their future employers,” she wrote to me. That made a lot of sense to me, so I decided to support the program.

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Ngainunmawi “Mawi” Sonna, master’s student in English, and Seton Bachle, doctoral candidate in biology, were selected as the 2020 recipients of the GSC Award for Graduate Student Teaching Excellence. Mawi and Seton will serve as K-State’s nominees for the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools (MAGS) Excellence in Teaching Award.

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As has been the case with so many events this year, the Graduate Student Council’s annual Research and the State poster session was held virtually on October 23rd. While the opportunity to engage in person was missed, the first time virtual event was a success.

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