The College of Medicine’s annual Faculty Doctoral Mentoring Award encourages and rewards excellence, innovation and effectiveness in mentoring doctoral students through their final dissertation project. Nominations for the award come from current graduate students, graduate alumni, faculty members, graduate coordinators, department chairs, school directors, college deans and administrators. The 2017-2018 winners are Dr. Linda Bloom (Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) and Dr. Rolf Renne (Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology).