Congratulations to Our 2017 Teaching Assistant Award Winners!
On Monday, May 8th, 2017 the Biology Instructional Office held its annual Teaching Assistant (TA) Award ceremony. Out of over 200 TA positions appointed during the past year, we had 27 TAs nominated for this honor, but could choose only 12 to win the award. The list below includes all of the nominees. Winners are indicated by *.
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!
2017 TA Award Nominees |
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TA Name |
Grad Program |
Nominator |
Class Number |
| Atsumi Ando | Plant Biology | Inder Saxena | BIO 325 |
| Christina Balentine | Ecology, Evolution, Behavior | Sata Sathasivan | BIO 311C |
| Evan Bettis* | Specialist | Jan Machart | BIO 365S |
| Heath Burton | Kinesiology | Ian Cheng | BIO 365S |
| Alex Cantu* | Pharmacy | Anita Latham | BIO 311C |
| Jesse Cohn | Cell & Molecular Biology | Nigel Atkinson | BIO 325 |
| Kiki Crawford* | Kinesiology | Ian Cheng | BIO 365S |
| Andreas George | Specialist | Jorge Tovar Diaz | NEU 365L |
| John Giacona* | Biology (BSA) | Tina Hines | BIO 446L |
| Amelia Hall | Microbiology | Suzanne Barth | BIO 361L |
| Craig Handley* | Specialist | Jen Moon | BIO 325 |
| Dania Hussein | Biochemistry (BSA) | Sata Sathasivan | BIO 311C |
| Albina Khasanova | Ecology, Evolution, Behavior | Laura Gonzalez | BIO 373 |
| Stephanie Lapierre* | Kinesiology | Jan Machart | BIO 165U |
| Fengyan Lu | Specialist | Inder Saxena | BIO 325 |
| Eryn Pynes | Biology (BS) | Blinda McClelland | BIO 311D |
| Christopher Riley* | Biochemistry | Gail Grabner | BCH 369 |
| Soroosh Sadeh | Kinesiology | Tina Hines | BIO 446L |
| Maximilan Sherard* | STEM Ed | Lisa Boucher | BIO 311D |
| Hardiha Shivram | Cell and Molecular Biology | Scott Stevens | BIO 344 |
| Christopher Torres | Ecology, Evolution, Behavior | Blinda McClelland | BIO 478L |
| Charles Traverse | Microbiology | Rasika Harshey | BIO 326R |
| Kelsey Tseng* | Biology (BSA) | Jan Machart | BIO 365S |
| Brittney Voigt* | Specialist | Marty Maas | BIO 206L |
| Drew Wagner* | Biochemistry | Gwen Stovall | BCH 339F |
| Gayani Weeraratne* | Plant Biology | Stan Roux | BIO 328D |
| Lindsey Wilken | Neuroscience (BS) | George Pollak | NEU330 |
See our past TA Award Nominees & Winners
