Teaching assistants take home 34 Centennial Awards

Thirty-four teaching assistants, in disciplines from art to petroleum engineering, were honored with Centennial Teaching Assistant Awards at a ceremony on Saturday at the Faculty Club. Initiated in 1989 by the dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences, this program recognizes outstanding teaching by teaching assistants in the schools of Humanities and Sciences, Earth Sciences, and Engineering.

Winners from the School of Humanities and Sciences were Mia S. Bruch, Falk Cammin, Coye Cheshire, Polly Fordyce, Isabelle Gingras, Thomas Griffiths, Hahrie C. Han, Theresa E. Hannon, Awino Kuerth, Jennifer L. Lawless, George A. Marcus, Kerry R. McCarthy, Meredith E. Monaghan, Erika L. Monahan, Sara L. B. Pankenier, Russell C. Pratt, Neil A. Rubin, Darko Sarenac, Louise E. Siddons, Blake C. Stevens, Ian T. Suydam, Teceta E. R. Thomas, Simon E. Weffer, Michael C. Weisberg, Kelly R. Wilson and Erica C. Yao.

Winners from the School of Earth Sciences were Christopher M. Van de Ven and Burak Yeten.

Winners from the School of Engineering were Sarah Harris, Oleksiy Khomenko, Oliver Max, Michael Murray, Kossi Medji Sama and Edward Stancik.

Each year, half of the departments in the School of Humanities and Sciences choose one to three graduate students to be honored. In the schools of Earth Sciences and Engineering, all departments nominate teaching assistants and two to seven are chosen.

Award winners receive $500 and a certificate signed by the dean of their school and the chair of their department. While the funds for the awards in the schools of Earth Sciences and Engineering come from the schools' regular budget, the School of Humanities and Sciences' funds SRcome from an endowment established by alumni Bill and Reva Tooley, Melvin and Joan Lane, and Marta S. Weeks.