Quinn honored with teaching award

Thomas P. Quinn, author of The Behavior and Ecology of Pacific Salmon and Trout, was awarded the Marsha L. Landolt Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award from the University of Washington for outstanding guidance and education of graduate students.

Marsha Landolt was dean of the Graduate School from 1996 until 2004, when she and her husband were killed in an avalanche. The Marsha L. Landolt Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award was created in her honor to recognize those members of the faculty who provided exemplary guidance and education to graduate students.

Nominees should:

Provide intellectual leadership

Respect students’ goals and helps students to work towards them; inspires, encourages

Be supportive at personal as well as professional level, and be a good advocate for students

Actively guide students’ research and training; clearly articulate expectations and hold students to high standards

Actively seek financial support for students’ graduate study and research

Actively involve students in teaching or research

Actively recruit and encourage applications to the unit’s graduate program

Be accessible for advice and assistance, whether student is in residence, on leave, is or is not ‘one of theirs’

Actively involve students in professional conferences

Actively involve students in publications

Help students to overcome problems, discord, barriers

Provide good model of professionalism

Help students to ‘network’ with other relevant professionals and faculty

Assist students in career preparation

Alert students to career opportunities; help students secure post-degree employment

Provide assistance in post-degree professional work

Congratulations to Thomas Quinn for his outstanding work with graduate students!