Mark Nawrot, professor of psychology, has been selected to receive NDSU’s Mentoring Excellence Award, which recognizes the vital role mentoring has in creating an academic culture of growth and excellence.
“The Faculty Awards and Recognition Committee selected Professor Nawrot for this year’s award for his dedication to mentoring students, as well as faculty colleagues across campus,” said vice provost Canan Bilen-Green.
Nawrot will receive an honorarium of $2,500 and be recognized by President Dean L. Bresciani and Provost Margaret Fitzgerald with a plaque during the annual NDSU Celebration of Faculty Excellence event scheduled for Thursday, May 13, at 3 p.m.
Nawrot was nominated by members of the Department of Psychology Faculty Affairs Committee. “Dr. Nawrot has a passion for helping students excel in the classroom,” the committee wrote. “His mentoring is an extension of this focus on helping those around him realize their needs, develop their skills, and achieve their goals. Indeed, his mentoring philosophy focuses on helping students and faculty receive the information, resources, knowledge or support needed at that moment to successfully move towards their objectives.”
Nawrot joined the NDSU faculty in 1995 and is chair of the Department of Psychology. He has mentored nearly 100 undergraduate students in his lab, several master’s degree and doctoral-level students and new faculty.
Most recently, Nawrot is developing a research mentoring relationship with Deepta Ghate at the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Department of Ophthalmology.
Nawrot’s numerous other honors include the College of Science and Mathematics Award for Excellence in Mentoring, Robert Odney Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Science and Mathematics Award for Excellence in Teaching, Mortar Board Preferred Professor and being named the James A. Meier Professor in the College of Science and Mathematics.
He earned his bachelor’s degree at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; master’s degree in psychology from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; and doctorate in psychology at the University of Iowa, Iowa City. He also held a post-doctoral position in behavioral neurology at the University of Iowa.
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