Graduate Student Awards

Mona Sameni and Uche Jarrett

Mona Sameni and Uche Jarrett

Mona Sameni wins the Perlman Paper Prize and Uche Jarrett named the Holahan Outstanding Teaching Assistant. The awards were presented at the annual graduate student orientation on Friday September 4, 2015. Each award is given in honor of a successful long-term faculty member of the department.

The cash prizes associated with the awards come from funds contributed by friends, alumni and faculty. Additional contributions will help these awards grow.

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.