Volume 17, Number 5     Summer 2008

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On May 14th, CTE hosted its annual ceremony for Distinguished Teaching Assistants. Departments across campus are invited to identify up to 10% of their TAs for this honor. This year, a record number of 145 Distinguished Teaching Assistants were named, an increase of 50 percent from last year. Many faculty members and mentors accompanied their TAs to the recognition ceremony.

This awards ceremony offers a yearly capstone for our efforts to recognize that commitment to teaching and learning. Speaking at the ceremony, Provost Nariman Farvardin, Dean of the Graduate School Charles Caramello, Dean for Undergraduate Studies Donna Hamilton, and Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence Spencer Benson congratulated the TAs for their outstanding teaching and recognized their profound contributions to undergraduate education at the University of Maryland in their capacities as autonomous teachers of record, discussion and recitation leaders, lab instructors, graders, and mentors.

For a full list of DTAs and photographs from the ceremony follow this link: http://www.cte.umd.edu/teaching/newsletter/2007-08/Su08_HTML/DTA.htm