Congratulations to Our 2012 Teaching Assistant Award Winners!
On Thursday, May 10th, the School of Biological Sciences held its annual Teaching Assistant (TA) Award ceremony. Out of over 300 TAs that were appointed over the past year, we had 25 TAs nominated for this honor, but could choose only 10 to win the award. The list below includes all of the TAs who were nominated, the names of those faculty members who wrote letters of nomination, and the courses the TAs helped teach. The TAs who were chosen by the selection committee to receive a TA Award are in bolded green text and can be seen in the photo below. Every one of these students has demonstrated exceptional qualities in the classroom.
We would like to thank these TAs, both the award winners and those nominated, for being outstanding teaching assistants. TAs are an integral part of the teaching experience and you have gone above and beyond what has been asked of you. Thank you!
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| The 2012 Scool of Biological Sciences TA Award Winners. Top row (from left to right): Sara Stewart, Ian Wright, David Busch, Aimee Wessel, David Lassiter. Bottom row (from left to right): Cynthia Londeore, Vanessa Rivera, Michelle Harrison, Oscar Vargas Hernandez. Not shown: Jina Sorensen. More photos from the awards ceremony can be found here. |
| Teaching Assistant | Nominator(s) | Class(es) | Class Title(s) |
| Matt Ashworth | Bill Allen | BIO 205L | Lab Exp Bio: Cell & Molec Bio |
| David Busch | Jennifer Morgan | BIO 320L | Advanced Cell Biology Laboratory |
| Gina Calabrese | Eric Pianka | BIO 357 | Evolutionary Ecology |
| Michelle Harrison | Dee Silverthorn | BIO 446L | Human Microscopic and Gross Anatomy |
| Katie Hudspeth | Lynne McAnelly | BIO 365S | Vertebrate Physiology II |
| Marguerite Hunt | Jan Machart | BIO 371L | Experimental Physiology Lab |
| David Lassiter | Lynne McAnelly | BIO 165U | Systems physiology laboratory |
| Jan Machart | BIO 165U | Systems physiology laboratory | |
| Sun Hee Lee | Pratibha Saxena | BIO 126L | Introductory Microbiology Laboratory |
| Pratibha Saxena | BIO 326M | Introductory Microbiology: Medical Microbiology | |
| Cynthia Londeore | Anita Latham | BIO 311C | Introductory Biology I |
| Jacob Malcom | Marguerite Hunt | BIO 340L | Biology of Birds |
| Kalpa Mehta | Barbara Moore | BIO 326M | Introductory Medical Microbiology and Immunology |
| Melissa Merscham-Banda | Jan Machart | BIO 371L | Experimental Physiology Lab |
| Marisa Miller | Suzanne Barth | BIO 361L | Public Health Bacteriology Laboratory |
| Ginnie Morrison | Kay McMurry | BIO 208L | Field Biology |
| Jidy Mulekar | Pratibha Saxena | BIO 126L | Introductory Microbiology Laboratory |
| Pratibha Saxena | BIO 326M | Introductory Microbiology: Medical Microbiology | |
| Pratibha Saxena | BIO 326R | Introductory Microbiology: Medical Microbiology | |
| Gayathri Ranganathan | Wes Thompson | BIO 365R | Vertebrate Physiology I |
| Vanessa Rivera | Jose Panero | BIO 301M | Ecology, Evolution and Society |
| Laura Sanders | Jennifer Moon | BIO 311D | Introductory Biology II |
| Roger Shaw | Kay McMurry | BIO 208L | Field Biology |
| Jina Sorensen | Bill Allen | BIO 205L | Lab Exp Bio: Cell & Molec Bio |
| Hans Hofmann | BIO 206L | Lab Exp in Bio: Struc/Func of Org | |
| Sara Stewart | Bill Allen | BIO 206L | Lab Exp in Bio: Struc/Func of Org |
| Hans Hofmann | BIO 206L | Lab Exp in Bio: Struc/Func of Org | |
| Oscar Vargas Hernandez | John Batterton | BIO 325L | Genetics Lab |
| Thomas Bushart | BIO 325L | Genetics Lab | |
| Tharindu Weeraratne | Mona Mehdy | BIO 331L/395 | Lab Studies in Molecular Biology |
| Aimee Wessel | Richard Meyer | BIO 126L | Introductory Microbiology Laboratory |
| Ian Wright | John Abbott | BIO 453L | General Entomology |
| John Abbott | BIO 353L | Field Entomology |
Posted by Steve Franklin
