Congratulations to Our 2025-2026 Teaching Assistant Award Winners!
The Biology Instructional Office is pleased to announce the winners of the 25-26 BIO Outstanding Teaching Assistant awards! Out of over 350 TA positions appointed during the past year, and 30 TAs, UGCAs, and Specialists nominated for this honor, the committee could choose only 10 to win the awards. The list below includes all of the nominees. Winners are indicated by *.
We would like to thank everyone, both the award winners and those nominated, for being outstanding teaching assistants. TAs are an integral part of the teaching experience and you have gone above and beyond what has been asked of you. Thank you!
2025 TA Award Nominees |
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| Winners indicated by * | ||
TA/Specialist NAME |
NOMINATOR |
COURSE |
| Dominic Balice | Husniye Kantarci | NEU 367C |
| Liliana Benitez | Greg Clark | MBS 328 |
| Savvy Cornett* | Hans Hofmann | NEU 361T |
| Caitlin Currie | Anita Latham | BIO 311C-TIP |
| Alexander Dunmyre* | Despoina Mavridou | MBS 355 |
| Kyle Graham | Ian Cheng | INB 365S |
| Darleen Ibe | Ruth Buskirk | BIO 311C & 311D |
| Swetha Iyer | Jon Pierce | NEU 366S |
| Aeslyn Kail* | Hiroshi Nishiyama & Thomas Middendorf | NEU 366L |
| Dani Lawson | Stacy Sparks | BCH 369 |
| Fiona Macneill | Kay McMurry | INB 122L |
| Allyson Mangum* | Marty Maas | BIO 206L |
| Natalie Mclaurin | Celest Austin | INB 365S |
| Kyren Miller | Zunlong Ke | BCH 370 |
| Alejandra Perez* | Stacy Sparks | BCH 369 |
| Smruti Pimplikar | Ann Thijs | INB 373 |
| Sarah Slaten* | Katie Bruner | BIO 325L |
| Brian Stokes | Laura Gonzalez & Tim Keitt | BIO 206L & INB 237 |
| Selfinaz Velioglu | Jeff Chen | MBS 327G |
UGCA NAME |
NOMINATOR |
COURSE |
| Morgan Burkhardt | K. Sathasivan | BIO 311C |
| Sofia Di Salvo | Ian Cheng | INB 365C |
| Bailey Foulds* | Marty Maas | BIO 206L |
| Shriya Ganesan* | Kristen Procko | BCH 339F |
| Oscar Hidrogo | Ruth Buskirk | BIO 311C & 311D |
| Emma Hodge | Stacy Sparks | BCH 369 |
| Jonathan Kurian* | Ann Thijs | BIO 311D |
| Ryan Lee | Stacy Sparks | BCH 369 |
| Naysa Modi | Jessica Chancey | NEU 330 |
| Adanna Onyeka | Ann Thijs | BIO 311D |
| Mahdia Rahman* | Stacy Sparks | BCH 369 |
See our past TA Award Winners & Nominees: