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UF Graduate Student Teaching Award winners 2023-2024

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University of Florida Graduate Student Teaching Awards winners for 2023-2024. Photo by Brianne Lehan

Congratulations to the University of Florida Graduate Student Teaching Award winners for 2023-2024.

Graduate student teachers were nominated during fall and spring semesters by their departments or colleges. The nominees’ teaching and their teaching portfolios were evaluated by the Graduate Student Teaching Awards Committee.

The top 20 students were selected for the award and were recognized at the Graduate Student Awards Ceremony.

  • Faith Baringer (Art and Art History)
  • James Boothroyd (Entomology and Nematology)
  • Nader Dagher (Public Relations)
  • Matthew Dallas (Mathematics)
  • Sam Dillon (Physics)
  • Garrett Ellward (Microbiology and Cell Science)
  • Mohammad Hasan (Microbiology and Cell Science)
  • Christos Litos (Physics)
  • Lillian Martinez (English)
  • Shelby Mikkelson (Sociology and Criminology & Law)
  • Claudia Mitchell (English)
  • Tiffany Pennamon (English)
  • Loida Rosado Del Rio (Physics)
  • Bhavna Sharma (Sociology and Criminology & Law)
  • William Sims (Computer and Information Science and Engineering)
  • Frank Solis (Classics)
  • Alina Sunoo (Theatre and Dance)
  • Shanna Thompson (Music)
  • Hannah Treadway (Spanish and Portuguese Studies)
  • Ivonne Zelaya (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures)
Calvin A. VanderWerf Award Winners
  • Joseph Angelillo (History)
  • María Mecías (Spanish and Portuguese Studies)

The members of the Graduate Student Awards Selection Committee for 2023-2024 are: Lynn Sollenberger (Chair), Sharon DiFino, Julie Dodd, Ifigeneia Giannadaki, Paula Golombek, Valeria Kleiman, Sujata Krishna, Linda Lombardino, Jon Reiskind, Henri Van Rinsvelt, Grady Roberts and Bradley Walters. Lorna Dishman, executive assistant in the Graduate School, provides administrative support for the committee.

I’m honored to serve on the committee and have the opportunity to recognize outstanding graduate student teachers. In our committee meetings, we discuss the best teaching practices and innovative class design that we’ve observed.

Thanks to Dean Nicole Stedman and the UF Graduate School for their support of excellence in teaching for graduate students. The award ceremony was part of UF’s Graduate Student Appreciation Week, held each year during the first week of April.

UF colleges must develop Student Learning Outcomes and assess those

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Dr. Mike Weigold, the college’s dean of undergraduate affairs, reminded us that our college, along with all of UF’s colleges, must establish Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) for their undergraduate education. This is a critical part of the university’s re-accreditation process.

Each college must establish SLOs and develop a process to assess each SLO. Ultimately, the college must have three years of data on students.

Last year, the four departments in the college — Advertising, Journalism, Public Relations and Telecommunications — developed the SLOs and began the discussion of assessment. This year we will begin assessment and maintaining that data.