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Volume 40, No. 11 |
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Oh, the places we go! University employees reveal favorite campus spots |
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Skorton reorganizes UI roles |
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OISS works with students to navigate new federal rules |
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Skorton sets 2004 salary guidelines |
Graduate students recognized for teaching
The University has named 25 teaching assistants the winners of the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards for 2002-03. Winners receive a certificate of achievement and $1,000. They were honored at an award reception on April 25.
The awards have been given each year since 1988 by the Council on Teaching. The awardees are teaching assistants who taught for at least one semester during the spring, summer, or fall of 2002. Nominations for the awards are sought from students, faculty, colleagues, departmental officers, and deans.
Lola Lopes, associate provost for undergraduate education, says the awards honor the teaching assistants for their dedication to undergraduate teaching and for their outstanding service to the University.
“Teaching assistants help us provide small-class experiences for every student in critical courses like Rhetoric,” she says. “They also run discussion sections for large lectures and they staff resources like the Writing Lab and the Math Lab. TA accessibility and enthusiasm are much valued by undergraduates in all our programs.”
The winners are:
Tippie College of Business
- Brett Anderson, accounting
College of Education
- Heidi Tafolla, curriculum and instruction
College of Engineering
- Mohammad Obadat, civil and environmental engineering
- Monica Ackerland, Spanish and Portuguese
- Amy Aldridge, communication studies
- Jennifer Banash, English/general education literature
- William Behrends, German
- Allison Brcka, mathematics
- Carla Colletti, music
- Jennifer Croft, English/general education literature
- Stephen Deyrup, chemistry
- LuAnn Dvorak, rhetoric
- Cynthia Farthing, mathematics
- Gary Jarvis, history
- Greg Jesson, philosophy
- Wesley Kisting, English/general education literature
- Jennifer McGovern, English/general education literature
- Pablo Molina, chemistry
- Michiko Nakagawa, Asian languages and literature
- Mary O’Donnell, Spanish and Portuguese
- Jed Peterson, history
- Tracy Slagter, political science
- Courtney Stewart, geoscience
- Takeshi Yasuda, physics and astronomy
Carver College of Medicine
- Smita Rao, physical therapy and rehabilitation science