The Alumni Association will honor the outstanding graduate student for 2007-2008 with the Marilyn Odom Outstanding Graduate Student Award. The winner will receive a plaque and recognition by the Alumni Association.

Criteria
Eligibility extends to graduate students completing their degree in August or December of 2007, as well as May of 2008. To be considered for nomination, a student must:

• have a GPA of 3.8 or better for all graduate work at SFA,
• be full-time graduate student at SFA with all graduate course work for the degree taken at SFA, and
• have at least twenty-four graduate hours of course work taken in residence at SFA.

Nomination Procedures and Deadlines
Nominations may be made by any SFA graduate faculty member. Nominator forms and supporting letters of recommendation will be submitted by the nominating faculty member to the Graduate School. Nominee forms will be completed by the nominee and submitted with the nominator forms and letters of recommendation to the Graduate School by February 22, 2008 so that the Graduate Council may make its selection at its meeting on March 27th.

Award Recipients