Please submit this form and a letter of recommendation by 5:00 p.m., Monday, March 8, 2010.

To the candidate:

Please give this form to two people familiar with your abilities as a graduate student/postdoctoral scholar and your potential to make significant contributions to your discipline and profession. If you are a graduate student, one recommendation must come from your major professor or faculty advisor. If you are a postdoctoral scholar, one recommendation must come from your principal investigator. The recommendation is to be emailed or mailed directly to the Office of Graduate Studies by the person completing it.

To the recommender:

The individual forwarding this recommendation form is applying for the Professors for the Future program. The program is designed to provide students with career development opportunities by involving them in a variety of activities. It would be helpful in our selection process if you would provide us with your assessment of this applicant using this form along with a letter of recommendation.

Please either send an attached letter of recommendation along with this form or mail the letter to:

Teresa Dillinger, PFTF Coordinator
Office of Graduate Studies
One Shields Avenue
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA 95616

Name of candidate:
Candidate's e-mail address:
Candidate's department or program:

Please click on the appropriate corresponding radio button below:
  Exceptional Better than average Average Unable to determine
1. Potential to provide leadership:
2. Communication skills (oral/written):
3. Openness to ideas and ways of thinking outside the current discipline:
4. Ability to think and work in an interdisciplinary fashion:
5. Social sensitivity:
6. Self-confidence:
7. Ability to relate to others:
Recommender's name:
Position or title:
Campus address:
E-mail address:
Phone number:
  Please check if you are also this student's major professor or postdoctoral scholar's principal investigator.