Twenty graduate student teaching assistants have recently been recognized with Department of Chemistry Teaching Assistant Excellence Awards, with thirteen new awardees this year. They are:
Isabelle Da Parp
Lukas Glofcheskie (second award)
Armaan Grewal
Elizaveta Gusarova
James Guthrie (second award)
Lauren Healy
Colton Johnson (second award)
Ian Kenalty
Isabelle Lao
Navina Lotay
Pedro Mendez Ocampo (third award)
Maryama Mohamed (second award)
Daniel Ou
Ella Rajaonson
Cher-Tian Ser (second award)
Turar Tanirbergenov (second award)
Kirsten Yeung
Elena Zelenco
These awards are based on the strength of written support submitted by both undergraduate students and course instructors, with over 220 separate nominations received in total this year. They represent the exceptional work of tutors and laboratory demonstrators across eleven different undergraduate courses, from first-year to fourth-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, Jon Abbatt, Madeleine Gerbig and Nicole Treston.