Graduate Academic Honors and Awards
Presidential Scholars List
At the end of the fall and spring semesters, graduate students who maintained a cumulative grade point average of 3.850 or above after completing at least 30 credit hours are recognized as presidential scholars.
Perfect 4.0 Cumulative Grade Point Average
Graduate students who complete all graduate program requirements with a 4.0 cumulative grade point average (GPA) are presented with a gold honors stole. Only students whose final grades have been posted are eligible to receive the honors stole during the Graduate Awards and Hooding Ceremony (or during the Commencement Ceremony for Ph.D. graduates).
Awards
Many awards recognize graduate student students for their academic and leadership accomplishments. This is a representative list of the awards, many of which are presented during the Graduate Awards and Hooding Ceremony, which is held every spring as part of Commencement activities.
Graduate School Awards
Weiner Family Research Award: recognizes and supports outstanding student research that adds to an understanding of diagnostic techniques and treatments aimed at improving mental health outcomes of individuals who are deaf
Graduate Student Scholarly Achievement Award: recognizes an outstanding scholarly project completed by a graduate student during his or her Gallaudet graduate program
Graduate Student Outstanding Achievement Award: recognizes an outstanding graduate student who has demonstrated exceptional accomplishments in the graduate student role
Department and Program Awards
American Sign Language and Deaf Studies
George Veditz Deaf Studies Award: recognizes graduate students who have made and will continue to make an impact on the lives of Deaf People and field of Deaf Studies through their outstanding scholarship and activism
Masters in Sign Language Education Award: for a graduate student who exhibits pedagogical innovation and aptitude in the field of sign language education
Counseling
Francine White Outstanding Counseling Student Award: recognizes a student who demonstrates high aptitude for and commitment to counseling
Education
Helen Fay Award: for a student most likely to make an outstanding contribution to the field of teaching deaf or hard of hearing children
Marjorie Stull Memorial Scholarship Award: for a graduate student who has shown exceptional ability and aptitude in teaching students who are deaf on the basis of first-year graduate student performance
Educational Neuroscience
Ph.D. in Educational Neuroscience Outstanding Research Award: honors a student who has consistently demonstrated outstanding research and scientific scholarship, originality, and creativity in his or her science, and scholarly achievements in research commensurate with the highest standards of Cognitive Neuroscience and Educational Neuroscience
Ph.D. in Educational Neuroscience Outstanding Research-Based Translation Award: honors a student who has made a significant contribution to the translation of basic scientific discoveries in Cognitive Neuroscience and Educational Neuroscience through the advancement of an original creation or contribution that has the potential to transform society, policies, and individual lives spanning the nation and world
Government and Public Affairs
Master of Public Administration Award: for an outstanding public administration student
Hearing, Speech, and Language Sciences
Award for Excellence in Speech-Language Pathology: for a first-year student in Speech-Language Pathology who has demonstrated excellence in clinical and academic endeavors and who is expected to make significant contributions to the profession and to deafness
Award for Excellence in Audiology: for a first-year student in Audiology who has demonstrated excellence in clinical and academic endeavors and who is expected to make significant contributions to the profession and to deafness
International Development
Euphrasia Mbewe Award: for a student who has demonstrated excellence in social advocacy work while enrolled in the International Development Program
Liisa Kauppinen Award: for a student who has demonstrated excellence in policy development and research while enrolled in the International Development Program
Interpretation and Translation
Barbara Babbini Brasel Research Award: for an exemplary interpretation research paper completed by a student during graduate studies in the Interpretation Program
Ron Coffey Award: for an outstanding interpretation student
Linguistics
Outstanding Linguistics Graduate Student Award: for an outstanding linguistics student
Psychology
Elizabeth Peet Award: for an outstanding graduate student in school psychology
Larry G. Stewart Award: for an outstanding student in clinical psychology
Social Work
G. Arlene Gavin Award: for a graduate student who has demonstrated outstanding professionalism and commitment to social justice
Catherine H. Moses Award: for a graduate student who has demonstrated leadership and outstanding potential for contributing to social work practice with deaf and hard of hearing people