The Society of Graduate Students honoured its top teaching assistants during a ceremony May 5 in the Great Hall.
Computer Science teaching assistant Jeff (Hsien Chi) Wu talks with University of Western Ontario President Amit Chakma after the ceremony honouring Graduate Student Teaching Award recipients. Wu was one of 20 graduate students to receive the award during a reception held May 5 in the Great Hall.
Twenty Graduate Student Teaching Awards of $500 are presented annually to graduate students nominated by their students and course instructors. The awards are sponsored by the Society of Graduate Students, the Graduate Teaching Assistants’ Union, and the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.
“Graduate student teachers are vital to Western’s mission,” says University of Western Ontario President Amit Chakma, the MC for the event.
“They are among our most exciting and stimulating teachers and they are engaged in developing techniques in the classroom and laboratory which will enhance their own careers as scholars and teachers.”
The winners for 2009-10 are:
• Felipe Quintanilla – Hispanic Studies
• Fatima Patel – English
• Jennifer Kozak – Hispanic Studies
• Jerri-Lynne Cameron – English
• Jeremy Greenway – English
• Alex Laliberte – Biology
• Giulia Pepe – Kinesiology
• Morgan Kleiber – Biology
• Michael Hamilton – Geology
• Avedis Karadeolian
• Jeff (Hsien Chi) Wu – Computer Science
• Jeff Shantz – Computer Science
• David Allison – Electrical & Computer Engineering
• Ryan van der Zanden – Environmental Engineering
• Jenna Cameron – Computer Science
• Stephen (Cheng Chi) Lin – Sociology
• Livia Veselka – Psychology
• Kyle Paul – Sociology
• Kristen Izaryk – Linguistics
• Marco Dattilo – Economics