Committee accepting nominations for graduate student teaching awards Committee accepting nominations for graduate student teaching awards By Anne Bican Aggie News Writer Nominations are now being accepted for the 1997 Teaching Awards for Outstanding Graduate Students. According to Jacob Olupona, current chairperson of the committee appointed to review all nominations, the award's purpose is to recognize the achievements and contributions made to teaching by graduate students at UC Davis.
Graduate students are an important aspect of the teaching process.
Many serve as teaching assistants for professors and pursue teaching careers. Kotovsky said that, with the award, he has also received recognition within the department. So they certainly recognized me as being a good teacher and were very willing to afford me the opportunity to teach that again. Anyone can make a nomination for the award, but the nominee must be a currently enrolled graduate student who has been employed on the Davis campus as a paid teacher, teaching assistant or a student providing university service normally performed by a paid teaching assistant but holding a different title. Eligibility for this year's award is restricted to those employed during spring or fall 1996 or winter 1997, and previous recipients are not eligible.