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Honors and Awards

Horn Professor Graduate Achievement Award

The Horn Professors Graduate Achievement Award has been established by the Paul Whitfield Horn Professors at Texas Tech University to recognize and reward outstanding research or creative activity performed by graduate students while at Texas Tech University.

Students may not apply directly for this award, but must be nominated by a graduate faculty member at Texas Tech.

This is a cash award and nominations are accepted every Spring. For more information and current deadlines...

Helen DeVitt Jones Excellence in Graduate Teaching Awards

This award supports excellence in teaching awards administered by the Graduate School for Graduate Part-time Instructors (GPTI). This award recognizes outstanding scholarly activity and excellence in teaching and is awarded annually during the state-wide graduate student appreciation week.

Students may not apply directly for the award. They must be nominated by a graduate faculty member.. Eligible nominees should be an outstanding teacher and have been a Graduate Part-time Instructor during the academic year that they are being nominated to receive the award. Graduate part-time instructors are those who have at least 18 hours of graduate work in the field of teaching responsibility and who have full responsibility for the class or classes they teach.

Each awardee receives a $500.00 honorarium before taxes, and will be honored at a ceremony during the graduate student appreciation week.

2012 Awardee Winners

Nomination form is available on-line.

Deadline for 2013 - TBD

Outstanding Thesis and Dissertation Awards

The Graduate School is pleased to announce these awards in recognition of the quality of theses and dissertations that our graduate students are producing. As our guide for the criteria and nomination cycle, we have adopted the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) outstanding dissertation award model. Our awards are monetary and the applicable dissertation award winner will also be nominated to CGS/ProQuest as part of their annual competition to recognize an outstanding dissertation representing original work that makes an unusually significant contribution to the discipline being considered that year.

Students may not directly apply for this award, but need to be nominated by a \ graduate faculty member at Texas Tech.

Please visit our website for all details and nomination procedures.

Awards will be given annually according to the research topic (Expanded list of categories on full announcement at link above):