Jill Pruetz receives ISU's Margaret Ellen White Graduate FacultyAward

Jill Pruetz, assistant professor of anthropology, received the 2006 Margaret Allen White Graduate Faculty Award at Iowa State University's fall convocation on Monday, Sept. 11.

Pruetz has two priorities for her graduate students: finish their degrees on a timely basis and have a challenging and rewarding educational experience. Her record shows that she is successful in both. She is involved in primate and tropical ecology studies across the globe, including Senegal, Costa Rica, Morocco, Nicaragua, Kenya and Peru, and involves her graduate students in her research in these countries.

She is assistant director of the Association for the Conservation of the Tropics and a member of the advisory board of the Great Ape Trust of Iowa in Des Moines. She also excels as an educator, winning the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Master Teacher Award in 2004.

The Margaret Ellen White Graduate Faculty Award recognizes superior performance by a member of the graduate faculty who serves as a mentor and who enriches the student-professor relationship through support and attention to detail, enabling students to finish their work in a timely and scholarly manner.

This award was established in 1985 by White to show her appreciation to graduate faculty for their guidance and encouragement of graduate students. A graduate of Iowa State's former College of Home Economics, White served as an administrative assistant in the Graduate College for 37 years. A $1,500 award is granted.