Assistant Professor of Theatre, Mary Anderson, received the WSU Graduate School's Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award in the Arts and Humanities for 2014. Outstanding Graduate Mentor Awards honor faculty members who are recognized by their departments and graduate students as superb graduate mentors. Four awards are made annually in the areas of natural sciences and engineering; the health sciences; social sciences, education and business; and the arts and humanities. Anderson is one of only four assistant professors to receive this honor since its inception in 1994. http://gradschool.wayne.edu/news.php?id=11209

In the history of the award, Prof. Anderson is the sixth recipient from the College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts. Previous honorees are:
James Thomas - Theatre (2008)
Peter Williams - Art and Art History (2000)
Jack Kay - Communication (1999)
Bernard Brock - Communication (1996)
Matthew Seeger - Communication (1994)