This award is given annually by ASU's Graduate Education to “reward excellence in a wide variety of mentoring functions, including: a demonstrated record of graduate teaching excellence, a demonstrated record of chairing doctoral committees with timely completion rates, an established record of mentoring and student professional development as demonstrated by student publication, external grant funding, conference presentations, etc., an ability to attract doctoral students to ASU through active recruitment and academic/scholarly reputation, a demonstrated commitment to diversity in the mentoring process.” https://graduate.asu.edu/odm/recipients