Dean’s recognition

Dean's award winners talk after the ceremony
Photo by Mary Butkus

(From left) Ricki Sheldon (physics), Matthew Cashen (philosophy), Shawn Resler (chemistry) and Keith Beutler (history) talk after receiving a Dean’s Award of Teaching Excellence from the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences April 24 in the Women’s Building Formal Lounge. Each spring, Robert E. Thach, Ph.D., dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, recognizes outstanding teaching assistants with a cash prize and certificate of encomium. Other winners this year were Jie Zhang (Asian and Near Eastern languages and literatures), Allison Miller (biology/biomedical sciences), Jing Zhang and Vicki Rapti (comparative literature, team award), Jennifer Romney (English), Meghan Barnes (German, Women and Gender Studies), Kathy Bradfield (philosophy-neuroscience-psychology) and Jennifer Burbridge (psychology).