47 Graduate Instructors Receive 2013 Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Awards

Author: Joanna Sherbun

Alison Adams with Chris Maziar Chris Maziar, left, presents Alison Adams with her Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award

The 2013 Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award, which is given annually by the Notre Dame Graduate School and the Notre Dame Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning, honors graduate student instructors and teaching assistants whose teaching demonstrates excellence in the classroom or laboratory.

The awards dinner honoring the recipients took place Tuesday, April 16th, in the McKenna Hall Conference Center. Chris Maziar, acting dean of the Graduate School, and Kevin Barry, director of the Kaneb Center, presented recipients with their awards following a keynote speech from Daniel Myers, vice president and associate provost for faculty affairs.

A full listing of the award recipients follows.

COLLEGE of ARTS & LETTERS

Art, Art History & Design Amanda Joseph
Classics Alison Adams
Creative Writing Program Mary Lattari
Economics Jonathan Wolff
English Katy Wright Bushman
Timothy Miller
History Philipp Gollner
Erin Kraus
Literature Damiano Benvegnu
Medieval Institute Caitlin Stevenson
Philosophy Amelia Hicks
Graham Leach-Krouse
Political Science Richard Maass
Gregory Shufeldt
Psychology Kelly Kuznicki
Romance Languages & Literature Hannah Langsfeld
Sociology Melissa Pirkey
Theology Elizabeth Antus
Jennifer Martin
Jordan Wales
University Writing Program Angel Matos

COLLEGE of ENGINEERING

Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering Lisa Cole
Anne Legault
Brian Neiswander
David Post
Paul Rumbach
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Dallas Rensel
Yunshan Wang
Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences Steven Brus
Aaron Donahue
Computer Science & Engineering Michael Gonzales
Electrical Engineering Zhanwei Sun

COLLEGE of SCIENCE

Applied & Computational Mathematics & Statistics Amy Buchmann
Biological Sciences Matthew Leming
Derrick Parker
Ali Raja
Shayna Sura
Chemistry & Biochemistry Catherine Campos
Jeremy Eberle
Ian Harrier
John Herrington
Brendan Mahoney
Mathematics Nicole Kroeger
Brian Shourd
Physics William Bauder
Karen Ostdiek
Allison Showalter