Month: November 2024

Professor Tim Salmon has been named one of the inaugural recipients of the Moody Outstanding Mentor Award, awarded by the Moody School, Office of Faculty Success, and Center for Teaching Excellence! The award recognizes exceptional mentoring of graduate students and postdoctoral scholars by SMU faculty. It also comes with a nice chunk of research funds to help future students.

Professor Salmon has advised 24 Ph.D. students in the 24 years he has been a tenure-track/tenured professor, serving as the main advisor for ten of these students. In addition, he served as the Director of Doctoral Studies in our department for six years. Of the 24 students whose dissertation committee he served, 17 are currently employed in academia, ten of whom have tenure, one of whom is an associate dean, one who is the editor of a journal, several direct centers, and several are or have been department chair. Of the ten students for whom Professor Salmon served as the main advisor, eight are employed in academia and one will graduate this May. Three of these students have already been granted tenure; several of the remainder have not been out long enough. Thus, Professor Salmon has given significant time in his career “paying it forward” to the next generation of Ph.D. students.