Skip Navigation

Office of Graduate Studies

Folsom Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation: Award Nomination Form

See Folsom and Graduate Studies Awards for deadlines, guidelines, and additional information.

Before you begin, make sure you have the following:

  • Two faculty members from outside the University who have agreed to review and rank the dissertation.
  • Valid email addresses for those reviewers.
  • In a plain-text format that you can copy and paste into our form (i.e. not on paper):
    • The nominee's two-page vita.
    • A one-page letter from the dissertation supervisor.
    • A one-page letter from a member of the dissertation committee.
    • A one-page letter from an expert scholar of the nominee's choice from within or outside the University who did not serve on the supervisory committee.
  • In PDF or Word format, to be emailed to Jane Schneider at jane.schneider@unl.edu, a dissertation abstract of no more than 10 pages.

Folsom Doctoral Dissertation Nomination

Nominator

Nominee

If you do not know the NU ID, have someone look it up. Do not make up a fake NU ID.

Reviewers from Outside the University

Example
Full NameDr. Jane Smith
Institution University of Wisconsin-Madison
Emailjane.smith@wisc.edu
Reviewer 1 
 
Reviewer 2 
 

Supporting Materials

Paste text from email messages or other documents. The three letters should evaluate the significance and quality of the dissertation work.

Note that this form accepts plain text only, so text formatting (bolding, centering, superscript, etc.) will be lost, and some special characters (symbols, foreign letters, etc.) may be lost or distorted.


Max. 1 page in word processor. Don't forget to include a "signature" with name, title, and department.


Max. 1 page in word processor. Don't forget to include a "signature" with name, title, and department.


Max. 1 page in word processor. Don't forget to include a "signature" with name, title, and department.


Max. 2 pages in word processor.

5. Dissertation Abstract
The dissertation abstract should be no more than 10 pages in length, prepared by the nominee.
Send it to Jane Schneider at jane.schneider@unl.edu as an email attachment in PDF or Word format.

Submit this nomination