The Graduate Teaching Assistant Excellence Award is an LPL initiative which is intended to promote, recognize, and reward exemplary performance among graduate teaching assistants assigned to PTYS undergraduate courses. The award consists of funding intended to be used toward travel and expenses to professional meeting chosen by the recipient. All graduate teaching assistants assigned to PTYS courses are eligible, whether or not their home department is PTYS.

Kana Ishimaru

Fall 2022
PTYS/ASTR 170A1, Alien Earths
Instructor: Jessica Barnes

2023 LPL nominee for College of Science Graduate Excellence Award for Teaching and Mentoring

Jada Walters

Fall 2022
PTYS 212, Science and Politics of Climate Change
Instructor: Tommi Koskinen