{"id":24139,"date":"2026-05-05T14:34:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/?page_id=24139"},"modified":"2026-05-22T13:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:26:10","slug":"graduate-school-awards-past-awardees","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/graduate-school-awards-past-awardees\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate School Awards – Past Awardees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meet Our Past Awardees<\/h1>

The Tradition of Graduate Excellence<\/p>Graduate School outstanding Awards<\/a><\/div><\/div>

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Past Outstanding Award Recipients<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The URI Graduate School Outstanding Awards have recognized students and mentors whose work shapes their disciplines, communities, and the future:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This award recognizes faculty members who demonstrate extraordinary dedication to mentoring graduate students. Honorees foster inclusive, supportive, and intellectually rigorous environments that empower students to succeed academically, professionally, and personally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outstanding Doctoral Student Award<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Outstanding Doctoral Student Award recognizes a Ph.D. candidate whose scholarly achievements, originality, and leadership exemplify the highest standards of graduate education at the University of Rhode Island. Recipients demonstrate exceptional research or creative work, academic excellence, and a strong commitment to advancing their field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outstanding Master\u2019s Student Award<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Presented to an outstanding master\u2019s student, this award honors academic distinction, impactful research or applied work, and meaningful contributions to their program and community. Awardees reflect the depth, rigor, and promise of URI\u2019s Master\u2019s-level graduate education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Congratulations to our Past Awardees<\/h1>\n\n\n
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Photo<\/th>Awardee Name<\/th>Award<\/th>Year<\/th>Affiliation<\/th><\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
\""Dr.<\/td>Dr. Roxanne Beinart<\/td>Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award<\/td>2025<\/td>Graduate School of Oceanography<\/td> <\/tr>\n
\""Tori<\/td>Tori Mezebish Quinn<\/td>Outstanding Doctoral Student Award \"DUCK, DUCK, GOOSE: COMPREHENSIVE APPROACHES TO UNRAVELING THE MOVEMENT ECOLOGY OF WATERFOWL THROUGHOUT THE ANNUAL CYCLE\" (2025).<\/td>2025<\/td>Department of Natural Resources Science<\/td> <\/tr>\n
\""Sungyoun<\/td>Sungyoun Seo<\/td>Outstanding Master\u2019s Student Award \"A COMPACT FREQUENCY COMB GENERATOR FOR LARGE-FORMAT SUPERCONDUCTING MICROWAVE KINETIC INDUCTANCE DETECTORS\" (2025).<\/td>2025<\/td>Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering<\/td> <\/tr>\n
\"HOPE\"<\/td>Ariel Leahy<\/td>Graduate Student Writing Excellence Award, Theme of \"HOPE\"<\/td>2026<\/td>College of the Environment and Life Sciences<\/td> <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n <\/table>\n \n \n \n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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Past Outstanding Award Recipients The URI Graduate School Outstanding Awards have recognized students and mentors whose work shapes their disciplines, communities, and the future: Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award This award recognizes faculty members who demonstrate extraordinary dedication to mentoring graduate students. Honorees foster inclusive, supportive, and intellectually rigorous environments that empower students to succeed academically, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5370,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-24139","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24139"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24297,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24139\/revisions\/24297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}