Excellence in Honors Thesis Advising Award
Nomination Process
In connection with the annual Senior Honors Thesis Symposium, the L&S Honors Program solicits student nominations of faculty members who have had a special impact as a senior Honors thesis advisor. Honors Program staff members review these nominations and select the strongest nominee in each of L&S’s broad disciplinary areas to receive an Excellence in Honors Thesis Advising Award.
We recognize these incredible researchers and thank them for their contributions to their fields and to the lives of their research mentees, particularly their thesis advisees in the L&S Honors Program.
2026 Awardees
- Humanities: Raquel Kennon
- Biological sciences: Jenna Schmidt
- Physical sciences: Matthew Otten
- Natural and computational sciences: Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau
- Social sciences: Karen Schloss
Excerpts from student nominations for each of this year’s award winners are below.
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Past Awardees
- Humanities: Jacee Cho (English)
- Biological sciences: David Ehrlich (Integrative Biology)
- Physical sciences: Mark Eriksson (Physics)
- Natural and computational sciences: Bilge Mutlu (Computer Sciences)
- Social sciences: Jenny Saffran (Psychology)