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Stanford Report, June 13, 2007

Awards go to 39 teaching assistants

Thirty-nine teaching assistants in a wide range of disciplines will be honored with Centennial Teaching Assistant Awards at a ceremony Saturday, June 16. Initiated in 1989, the awards recognize teaching assistants (TAs) with records of outstanding teaching in the schools of Humanities and Sciences, Earth Sciences, and Engineering.

Ewart Thomas, professor of psychology, started the program during his years as dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences to acknowledge and celebrate the important role that TAs play in teaching at Stanford. Each year, half of the departments in that school are invited to choose usually one to three of their graduate student teachers (depending on the department's size) to be honored with the designation Centennial Teaching Assistant. In the schools of Engineering and Earth Sciences, all departments are eligible to make nominations, and from two to seven TAs are selected from each school.

Dean Pamela Matson of the School of Earth Sciences and Dean James Plummer of the School of Engineering will join Dean Richard Saller of the School of Humanities and Sciences in paying tribute to the award winners during the ceremony. Each receives a certificate and $500.

When selecting TAs for the award, departments are encouraged to seek the widest participation of their faculty and graduate students and to use a broad range of information about teaching assistants' effectiveness and contributions. Student evaluations of TAs also are consulted.

Endowment gifts for the Centennial Teaching Assistant Awards program in the School of Humanities and Sciences were made by Stanford supporters and alumni Bill ('56) and Reva ('54) Tooley of Los Angeles, Melvin ('44) and Joan Lane of Atherton, and Marta S. Weeks ('51) of Miami.

School of Humanities and Sciences

Anthropological Sciences

  • Nicole M. Slovak

    • Asian Languages

  • Mariko T. Bohn
  • Ying Zou

    • Biological Sciences

  • Jeremy Van Cleve
  • Patrick Ted Martone

    • Communication

  • Lori D. Gauthier

    • Cultural and Social Anthropology

  • Hannah Chadeayne Appel

    • Drama

  • Arden Elizabeth Thomas

    • Economics

  • Ryan Maddux
  • Alejandro Ponce-Rodriguez
  • Todd Schoellman

    • English

  • Claire Bowen
  • Ruth Kaplan
  • Jessica Weare

    • French and Italian

  • Marie Lasnier
  • David G. Lummus

    • History

  • Jeffery P. Morgan

    • Human Biology

  • Alison McDonough Silvis
  • Stephanie Mika

    • Linguistics

  • Bruno Estigarribia

    • Mathematics

  • Joseph D. Rabinoff
  • Andrew Schultz
  • Henry Segerman

    • Religious Studies

  • Daniel Washburn

    • Spanish and Portuguese

  • Nicolás Fernández-Medina
  • Carmen Sanjuan-Pastor

    • Statistics

  • George Chang

    • School of Earth Sciences

    Earth Systems Program

  • Jillian Margaret Bible
  • Lynda Jean Bowen Browning

    • Energy Resources Engineering

  • José Akamine Ramírez

    • Geological and Environmental Sciences

  • Uwe Martens

    • Geophysics

  • Kyle Russell Anderson

    • Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources

  • Heather Lukacs

    • School of Engineering

    Bioengineering

  • Jennifer Lahti

    • Civil and Environmental Engineering

  • Joshua White

    • Electrical Engineering

  • Nikola Stikov

    • Management Science and Engineering

  • Paul Kucik

    • Management Science and Engineering, and Design

  • Elizabeth Gerber

    • Mechanical Engineering

  • Alvin Barlian