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Arizona State University’s Graduate College proudly announces the recipients of the 2025-26 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards. These awards recognize exceptional faculty who go above and beyond to mentor and support graduate students and postdoctoral scholars.
This year’s honorees are:
We often read stories to understand the perspectives of others, but how can stories be used as a tool to better understand ourselves? Rebecca Stuch pursued the Fulbright U.S. Student Program to support her dissertation research abroad in Moldova, where she investigated how Moldovan youth experience, interpret and negotiate their understanding of national identity in a post-Soviet context.
At Grant Street Studios in downtown Phoenix, Kendall Traylor’s sculptures are speckled with color: terrazzo-like surfaces made from crushed remnants of past projects, test tiles and broken ceramics. What looks decorative at first glance is anything but accidental. Each fragment carries a history.