Graduate students are eligible to submit funding requests to the Graduate Student Research and Travel Fund prior to the research and/or conference commences. This fund is intended to assist individual graduate students conducting independent thesis or dissertation research and to help students disseminate their research results at professional meetings.
Review the guidelines for graduate student research and travel fund. Completion of these forms is required to request research funds. Send your completed, signed form(s) and supporting documentation to GradDean@hood.edu. Please note: submissions are reviewed and decisioned within 4-6 weeks of receipt.
Outstanding Student Awards
Every May, special awards are presented at the Graduate Degree Recipient Reception to the outstanding students in each graduate program. Recipients are chosen from the list of students who graduated in the previous September, January and that May by the faculty in the graduate program. Generous donors have endowed the awards as follows:
Arts and Humanities
Bioinformatics
Biomedical Science and Environmental Biology
Counseling & Thanatology
Doctoral
Education
MBA
Annual Funded Programs
Nutrition
STEM
Annual Funded Program
Technology
Thanatology
Each May, the Graduate School presents awards to one full-time faculty and one adjunct professor who were nominated by students for graduate teaching excellence. The Graduate School Teaching Excellence Awards will be presented at the Graduate School Master’s Degree Reception in May.
Aug. 22, 2018 - Kevin Stanfield just graduated from Hood, with a master of science in Environmental Biology, and a certificate in Global Information Systems, and his thesis related to environmental science and the use of drones and computational/remote sensing techniques.
Aug. 28, 2018 -- Some of the most knowledgeable people in Hood College’s Doctoral Program are the candidates themselves.
Alumna Rachel Bagni is leading a research team at the National Cancer Institute.