36 teaching assistants receive awards
Thirty-six teaching assistants in disciplines ranging from anthropological sciences to statistics have been recognized with Centennial Teaching Assistant Awards.
The awards honor outstanding teaching assistants in the School of Humanities and Sciences, School of Earth Sciences and School of Engineering. Each recipient was awarded a certificate and $500 prize.
Every year, half the departments in the School of Humanities and Sciences are invited to choose usually one to three of their graduate student teachers (depending on the department's size) to be honored by the designation Centennial Teaching Assistant. In the School of Engineering and School of Earth Sciences, all departments are eligible to nominate teaching assistants each year; between two and seven winners per school are selected.
Following is a list of the 2005 award recipients:
School of Humanities and SciencesAnthropological Sciences: Charles Christopher Roseman
Asian Languages: Miri Nakamura and Paul Nicholas Vogt
Biological Sciences: Eric D. Hoopfer and Nadia Singh
Communication: Isabel Awad
Cultural and Social Anthropology: Jocelyn Lim Chua
Drama: James Charles Lyons
Economics: Scott Nicholson, Prakash Kannan and Amar Nair
English: Allison Brooke Carruth, Jolene R. Hubbs and Christopher N. Phillips
French and Italian: Mireille Catherine Therese Le Breton
History: Nathan Gillespie
Human Biology: Elizabeth Brannan and Kara Bischoff
Linguistics: Judith Tonhauser
Mathematics: David Futer and Pierre Albin
Religious Studies: Shari Ruei-Hua Epstein
Spanish and Portuguese: Nicole Patricia Barraza and Vianey Cano Brito
Statistics: Debashis Paul
School of Earth SciencesEarth Systems Program: Rebecca Katz and Anamaria Nino-Murcia
Geological and Environmental Sciences: David M. Singer
Geophysics: Ioan Vlad
Petroleum Engineering: Rami Younis
School of EngineeringAeronautics and Astronautics: Peter Kimball
Civil and Environmental Engineering: Jiro Takagi
Computer Science: Elizabeth Stinson
Electrical Engineering: Aaron Flores
Management Science and Engineering: Aykut Atali
Materials Science and Engineering: Seung Min J. Han