Each spring, the GPSGA selects an outstanding master’s student, doctoral student, and faculty member to present with its highest honor: the Phoenix Award. The Phoenix Award recognizes exemplary achievement in leadership, scholarship, professional involvement and university and community service; especially relating involvement with graduate students. The student award winners each receive a $750 monetary award from the GPSGA and the Graduate College, and all winners have their names engraved on the Phoenix Awards plaque located outside the Graduate College offices in Whitehurst Hall.