Graduate Teaching Assistant (TA) Award
The Gillings School Graduate Teaching Assistant (TA) Award recognizes a graduate teaching assistant who inspires students, enhances student learning and supports student success in the classroom.
Teaching assistants nominated for this award must be students who are pursuing a graduate degree at Gillings and have served in a TA role during the current (2023-24) academic year. This year, two graduate student TAs (one from the MPH degree program and one from among all other graduate degree programs) will each receive a $1,000 prize intended to help advance their educational development in teaching.
Eligibility
Students who are pursuing a graduate degree from Gillings and have served in a teaching assistant role for a graduate Gillings course during the current academic year are eligible for this award.
Selection Criteria
Nominate a Gillings graduate student teaching assistant who has:
- inspired students;
- enhanced student learning through creative, engaging and/or innovative teaching methods;
- supported student success in the classroom; and,
- facilitated students’ development as public health professionals.
Gillings faculty, staff and students may nominate a teaching assistant by providing a brief supporting statement (500 words) that addresses the above criteria for the person whom they are nominating. The deadline to submit a nomination is Thursday, February 22, 2024, 11:59 p.m. EST.
2023-24 Graduate Teaching Assistant (TA) Award winners
Sarah Sutter, Master of Public Health student, Health Behavior
Haolin “Leo” Li, Doctoral student, Biostatistics
Past recipients
2022-23
Celeste Kurz Goodwin, NUTR
Purva Trivedi, HB
2021-22
Dane Emmerling, HB
Hanna Huffstetler, HB
Lee Doyle, HB
