Excellence in Postdoctoral Mentoring Award

Congratulations to the faculty who received Honorable Mentions for the 2022 Excellence in Postdoctoral Mentoring Award! 

Andrea Gerlak is a professor in the School of Geography who focuses on finding different causes and potential resolutions to the most damaging and concerning environmental issues facing our world today. Her nomination should come as no surprise considering her ability to provide “an excellent balance between guiding, advising, supporting, and allowing [postdocs] to find [their] own way through the professional academic process” and her “visionary approach to postdoc program development.” 

Evan MacLean is an evolutionary anthropologist and comparative psychologist whose research focuses on the particulars behind the evolution of cognition. Dr. MacLean was nominated for this award because he “provides intellectual leadership”, “a supportive training environment”, and serves as a role model of a mentor who is “collaborative, knowledgeable, successful, and kind. 

Purnima Madhivanan is on faculty in Family and Child Health and Global Health and has done much to help bring attention to those disproportionately affected by poverty, particularly women and children living in rural communities. She was nominated for her “intellectual and personal leadership, authentic interactions, mentoring with compassion, and a selfless devotion to the continued growth of her mentees.”