Outstanding teaching assistants honored

Author: Imran Ghori
July 17, 2019

Several dozen teaching assistants at UCR were honored with the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for the 2018-19 academic year.

The winners, nominated by their respective departments, are honored “for being particularly dedicated and effective at engaging their students in disciplinary modes of inquiry,” according to the Graduate Division, which oversees the Teaching Assistant Development Program.

Here are the recipient of this year’s Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards:

Anthropology

Elizabeth Beckner

Art

Olivia Hill

Art History

Homer Charlie Arnold

Biochemistry

James Derr

Bioengineering

Martina Sanchez

Botany and Plant Sciences

Israel Santana

Business

Joshua Hartzel

Kelsey Heublein

Emily Pasqualetto

Derick Romero

Chemical and Environmental Engineering

Ming Lei

Chemistry

Kevin Chalek

Jack Kleinsasser

Computer Science and Engineering

Joe Allen

Ekta Gujral

Alexander Nguyen

Jason Zellmer

Xiu Zhang

Earth Sciences

Konstantin Choumiline

Bo Li

Economics

Seolah Kim

Ali Mehrabani

Ekaterina Seregina

Education (GSOE)

Ann Marie Martin

Danielle Mireles

Electrical Engineering

Navid Gharavi

Ceren Sevinc

Shan Sun

English 

Kali Simmons

Entomology

Tessa Shates

Environmental Sciences

Gary Harraka

Ethnic Studies

Romina Garcia

Lawrence Lan

Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology

Teresa Bohner

Derrek Carter-House

Elisa Henderson

Peter Ibsen

Andrea Keeler

Emily Naylor

Hispanic Studies (Spanish)

Seher Rowther

History

Mayela Caro

David McCaskey

Material Science and Engineering (MSE)

Steven Herrera

Mathematics

Jolene Britton

Daniel Collister

Jonathan Dugan

Michael McNulty

Alexxander Pokorny

Mechanical Engineering

Brent Kalish

Evander Ramos

Music

Alessio Olivieri

Philosophy

Akshay Ganesh

Andrew Law

Physics and Astronomy

Thomas Bohn

Chia-Feng Chang

Alexandria Costantino

Brian Francisco

Stephen Hannon

Plant Pathology and Microbiology

Polrit Viravathana

Political Sciences

Justin Freebourn

Beyzanur Han Tuncez

Psychology

Marcus Cappiello

Brianne Coulombe

Nicole Harake

Alex Leung

Benjamin Miller

Religious Studies

Danielle Dempsey

Sociology

Jessica Moronez

Alex Scott

Statistics

Luke Klein

Fangjie Xie

University Writing Program

Alexandra Allport

Paris Brown

Mariam Galarrita

Graham Hall