Nineteen graduate student teaching assistants have been recognized with Department of Chemistry Teaching Assistant Excellence Awards , with seven repeat awardees and twelve new recipients this year. They are:
- Zhengkun Chen
- Hunter Clark (third award)
- Lukas Glofcheskie
- James Guthrie
- Colton Johnson
- Kiran Joshy
- Yuju Kim
- Emily Majaesic (second award)
- Pedro Mendez Ocampo (second award)
- John Monteith (second award)
- Lidia Nemtsov
- Samuel Nyandwi (second award)
- Nicole Potter
- Sidrah Rana
- Katrina Ruzicka
- Timothy Salomons
- Marty Sirvinskas (third award)
- Turar Tanirbergenov
- Edmond Wong (second award)
The Teaching Assistant Excellence awards are based on the strength of written support submitted by both undergraduate students and course instructors (over 350 separate nominations were received in total this year). The awards represent the exceptional work of tutors and laboratory demonstrators across eleven different undergraduate courses in the Department of Chemistry, from first-year to third-year: over 80 teaching assistants were nominated!
Many congratulations to everyone who taught so well again this academic year, and heartfelt thanks to members of the departmental Undergraduate Studies Committee who adjudicated the awards: Susha Chulliparambil, John De Backere, Andy Dicks, David Dubins, Madeleine Gerbig and Nicole Treston.
Below is a word cloud from the nominations received for our award winners:
