Thirty-seven graduate students chosen for teaching assistant awards
At an awards ceremony held in the Faculty Club last week, 37 graduate students were honored with Centennial Teaching Assistant Awards for outstanding teaching in three schools: Humanities and Sciences, Earth Sciences and Engineering.
The awards were presented to the graduate students last Saturday by Richard Saller, dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences; Pamela Matson, dean of the School of Earth Sciences; and James Plummer; dean of the School of Engineering.
The award program, now in its 20th year, acknowledges and celebrates the important role that teaching assistants play at Stanford. Each recipient receives a certificate and a $500 prize.
Each year, the university's Center for Teaching and Learning invites half of the departments in the School of Humanities and Sciences to nominate teaching assistants for the award. All of the departments in Earth Sciences and in Engineering are eligible to nominate candidates every year. This year's winners follow:
School of Humanities and Sciences
Anthropology: Jesse Davie-Kessler, Kylea Liese
Asian Languages: Jingxia Lin, Joanna Sturiano
Biology: Jessica Blois, Ryan Gutierrez
Communication: Daniel Kriess
Drama: Ciara Murphy
Economics: Ned Augenblick, Ryan Lampe, Yaniv Yedid-Levi
English: Brianne Bilsky, Becky Richardson, Ryan Zurowski
History: Kari Zimmerman
Human Biology: Thomas McFadden, Isabel Shelton-Mottsmith
Iberian and Latin American Cultures: Cynthia Malik, William Viestenz
Linguistics: Lauren Hall-Lew
Mathematics: David Ayala, Robin Koytcheff, Eric Malm
Religious Studies: Noreen Khawaja
Statistics: Kshitij Khare
School of Earth Sciences
Earth Systems Program: Benjamin John Graves, Samantha J. Staley
Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources: Adam Millard-Ball
Energy Resources Engineering: Saman Afqahi Aryana
Environmental Earth System Science: Lida Tenkova Teneva
Geological and Environmental Sciences: Betsy Hale Madden
Geophysics: Hiroki Sone
School of Engineering
Bioengineering: Sarah Moore
Electrical Engineering: Catherine Chang
Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering: Sivaram Ambikasaran
Materials Science and Engineering: Craig Peters
Mechanical Engineering: Genny Pang
