The Seraphine Puchleitner Award 2021 took place on May 26, 2021 at 4 p.m., afterwards the teaching awards for the 2019/20 academic year were awarded.
The festive online award ceremony was accompanied by a lecture by Desiree Dickerson, PhD (Neuroscientist. Psychologist. Speaker. Coach.) On the subject of "I'm an academic, not a therapist. How do I support my doctoral candidates' mental health and well-being?"
Abstract: Some of you may have the sense that your people are struggling. Let's start to build a toolbox for navigating our students' mental health and well-being. We will explore why data collection helps, how we can ask the right questions, and how our students' mindset can help or hurt their progress and how to help them move forward.
The ceremony was musically framed by Michael Lagger at the piano.
The University of Graz has been honoring the best supervisors of doctoral students every year since 2013. This year, the Seraphine Puchleitner Prize was presented to the chemist Leonhard Grill. The recognition prizes went to the psychologists Mathias Benedek, Ulla Kriebernegg from the Center for Interdisciplinary Aging and Care Research and the lawyer Thomas Garber. Due to the corona pandemic, the award ceremony was held online on May 26th.
The Seraphine Puchleitner Prize 2021 goes to Leonhard Grill (Institute for Chemistry)
Recognition prizes for excellent doctoral supervision go to:
Mathias Benedek (Institute for Psychology)
Ulla Kriebernegg (Center for Interdisciplinary Aging and Care Research)
Thomas Garber (Institute for Civil Procedure Law and Insolvency Law)
Background
Seraphine Puchleitner (1870–1952) matriculated in the academic year 1898/99 as the first full female student at the University of Graz. She majored in geography and minored in history, and on July 1, 1902, was the first woman to obtain a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Graz.