Antonia Abbey receives 2014 Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award

Professor Antonia Abbey has received a 2014 Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award. The Graduate School's Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award honors graduate faculty who are recognized by their departments and their graduate students as excellent mentors. The awards were established in 1994 to highlight the importance of faculty's mentoring role.

Dr.Abbey received her award at the WSU Academic Recognition Ceremony on April 24, 2014. According to the program,

Professor Antonia Abbey's influence as a mentor and contributor to Wayne State University's graduate school community is evident in the enthusiastic letters of support for her nomination submitted by her students and administrators. Abbey has mentored the completion of 25 master's theses and 12 doctoral dissertations at Wayne State University, and has been heavily involved in the training and mentoring of many other graduate students in the Department of Psychology. She has regularly funded her students and has provided exceptional guidance for students to seek and secure external funding for their graduate training, research projects and professional travel. Of her 88 peer-reviewed journal publications, 58 percent feature her students as co-authors. Her students have been placed at prestigious research centers and universities. In addition, they have garnered competitive postdoctoral and academic positions where they are making important contributions to psychological research. In their letters of support, Abbey's students praise her collaborative style in developing research projects and her encouragement to students to take on leadership roles. But most of all, her students appreciate her generosity of time and her genuine concern for their professional and personal well-being. She is truly an inspiring teacher.