MSW students, consider nominating your instructor, field faculty, and/or advisor for the Landolt Award 2026.
The Graduate School welcomes nominations reflecting the breadth of mentoring excellence across our academic community. We encourage nominations showcasing the varied approaches to effective mentorship that support all graduate students in achieving their academic and professional goals. Nominations are open to all active members of the graduate faculty.
The Graduate School, with assistance from the President’s Office, sponsors this annual award to recognize outstanding mentoring of graduate students by faculty. The relationship between a graduate student and a faculty advisor can have a profound, lifelong influence on both parties. At its best, this mentoring relationship inspires and gives confidence to the student while providing the faculty member with a valued colleague.
The Marsha L. Landolt Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award allows us to honor those members of the faculty who exemplify excellence in graduate education. A single award, accompanied by $5,000 in discretionary funds that may be used to support the awardee’s scholarly activities, will be presented at the annual UW Awards of Excellence Ceremony.
Complete information on this year’s nomination procedures and guidelines is available on the Nomination Guidelines page.
Questions about the Landolt Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award or nomination procedures may be directed to graddean@uw.edu.
Complete nomination packets must be received by 5 p.m. Pacific, November 5, 2025; there will be no exceptions to this deadline.
