TAs Receive Pew Grants

TEACHING ASSISTANTS RECEIVE LEADERSHIP AWARDS FROM PEW TRUST

     COLUMBUS -- Eighteen graduate teaching assistants (TAs) at
The Ohio State University recently received Teaching Leadership
Awards from the Pew Charitable Trusts.  The grants, of up to $300
each, helped finance the TAs' participation in the fourth annual
National Conference on the Training and Employment of Graduate
Teaching Assistants, held Nov. 10-13 in Chicago.

     The conference theme was "Engaging the Disciplines."
Workshops, speakers, symposia and other activities addressed ways
to integrate the views of universities, the academic disciplines
and learned societies on graduate students' futures in teaching
and scholarship.

     Ohio State TAs who received Pew awards and their departments
are:

     Robert Boyd, aeronautical and astronautical eEngineering
     Terrance Lumpkins, political science
     Bruce Kelley, music theory
     John Skrzypczak, Near Eastern, Judaic and Hellenic languages
     Mark Winchester, theatre
     Luis Hermosilla, Spanish and Portuguese
     Daniel S. Dugan, technology education
     Michael McCrary, sociology
     Daniel Myers, sociology
     Kaizaa Kotwal, theatre
     Amber Ault, sociology
     Sumit Ghose, French and Italian
     Kenneth Williams, mathematics and communications
     Shiv Bakhshi, communications
     Carla Corroto, sociology
     Kimberly Dugan, sociology
     Dave Miklosovic, aeronautical and astronautical engineering
     Sandra Thompson, management and human resources

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Contact: Nancy Chism, faculty and TA development, Center for
Instructional Resources, (614) 292-3644.


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