Spotlighting the Graduate School

Dear Colleagues,

Throughout the spring semester, we continue highlighting the excellent and pivotal work conducted by you and your peers across campus. This week, we focus on the Graduate School and their mission to support graduate education across all levels at the university.

Under the new leadership of Dr. Padraic Kenney, the Graduate School continues to innovate with new ways of supporting the development of graduate students as professionals and scholars. The Office of Graduate Student Professional Enhancement (GSPE) guides graduate students along their path of both academic and professional pursuits with a variety of online and in-person programs and services, such as various workshops and presentations, orientation for teaching assistants (TAs) and thesis and dissertation writing camps.

The Graduate School also continues supporting faculty in various ways, including the annual awarding of the Albert D. & Elizabeth H. Kirwan Memorial Prize and the William B. Sturgill Award. The Albert D. & Elizabeth H. Kirwan Memorial Prize is awarded to a full-time faculty member who is deemed to have made outstanding contributions to original research or creative scholarship, and the William B. Sturgill Award is presented to an outstanding graduate faculty member. Read more about the 2023 awardees here. 

We are now into the final stretch after spring break. As you continue your work, please reach out if we can be helpful. No matter if you teach graduate-level courses or employ TAs in your department, we are all impacted by the work of the Graduate School. You can learn more about the support they offer here.

Thank you for continuing to demonstrate excellence in everything you do for UK.  

Robert S. DiPaola, M.D. 
Provost