Wallet receives UF Faculty Doctoral Mentoring Award

Congratulations to Shannon Wallet, Ph.D., who received a 2016-17 UF Faculty Doctoral Mentoring Award for the Medicine and Dentistry on March 7 from the UF Graduate School. Wallet, a professor in the UF department of oral biology and the associate dean for faculty affairs for the UF College of Dentistry, received the award in recognition of her excellence, innovation and effectiveness in mentoring doctoral students.

Nominations for the award come from current graduate students, graduate alumni, faculty members, graduate coordinators, department chairs, school directors, college deans and higher-level administrators. Each year, the award gives $3,000 to approximately five faculty members, with an additional $1,000 deposited into each winner’s department account for use in supporting doctoral or Master of Fine Arts students.