The Superior Graduate Achievement Award recognizes one outstanding graduate student from each department. Awardees are selected from among their peers based on teaching, research, service, advising, activism, community service, mentoring, departmental contributions or any other dimension of graduate student work. The significance or effect of an achievement by a graduate student in each department is the primary method of determining the awardee, rather than the type of contribution. Department graduate colleagues select the awardee. The method for this selection is determined by each department.

Qualifications:
- Good standing at the University of Missouri - Columbia
- Graduate student classification
- One awardee per department
- Awardee selected by graduate student colleagues (GSA does not regulate the nomination process of individual departments)

Procedure: After departmental selections are made, submit the following:
- SGAA nomination form
- curriculum vitae
- one-page letter describing how the student has excelled, including quotations from peers or short narratives

Deadline: Submit in person at the March GSA meeting.

Superior graduate students will be recognized at the Graduate Students Association Awards Banquet in April and receive a certificate and a montary award.

Questions? Contact:
Leslie Rill
Communication Department

Past SGAA Winners:
2003-2004
2004-2005
2005-2006
2006-2007