The Graduate College has introduced 29 graduate college students with its annual Instructing Awards in recognition of their excellent talents as academics.
Cole Crittenden, deputy dean and appearing dean of Princeton’s Graduate College (third from left), on the college’s Instructing Awards reception with college students who had been acknowledged for particular commendations inside their division, program or initiative. Proven are (from left) Soojung Han, Jacqueline Campbell, Shelby Sinclair, Katelyn Randazzo and Rajiv Sambharya. Not pictured: Merlijn Staps.
Winners had been chosen by a committee chaired by Cole Crittenden, deputy dean and appearing dean of the Graduate College, and composed of the tutorial affairs deans and workers from the McGraw Middle for Instructing and Studying. The nominations had been made by tutorial departments and packages. Every winner receives $1,000.
The choice committee acknowledged a graduate scholar assistant in instruction (AI) from every of the 4 divisions with a particular commendation. They’re Jacqueline Campbell (humanities), Shelby Sinclair (social sciences), Merlijn Staps (pure sciences) and Rajiv Sambharya (engineering).
Katelyn Randazzo was honored with the Quin Morton Graduate Instructing Award for instructors within the Princeton Writing Program. Soojung Han was acknowledged with the Collaborative Instructing Initiative (CTI) Graduate Instructing Award.
Jacqueline Campbell
Jacqueline Campbell, a fifth-year Ph.D. scholar in English, was nominated for her work educating “Introduction to Science Fiction.” “At each flip, Campbell confirmed care and respect for her college students, all whereas slyly creating alternatives for each single scholar to take part,” mentioned Diana Fuss, the Louis Fairchild ’24 Professor of English, and English Professor Russ Leo.
College students commented on Campbell’s creativity and accessibility to college students. “She gave nice suggestions on papers, was immediate in responses and was actually versatile to work with throughout workplace hours,” mentioned one scholar. “She used nice instruments throughout our discussions to assist set up concepts. General, she helped me interact much more within the class and helped my progress as a author.”
Shelby Sinclair
Shelby Sinclair is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in historical past. She served as an AI twice for “African-American Historical past Earlier than 1863.” As a result of pandemic, precepts had been held on-line, and Tera Hunter, the Edwards Professor of American Historical past, co-taught a few of them alongside Sinclair. “I received to see her in motion and watched in admiration and noticed the scholars’ respectful and engaged interactions together with her,” Hunter mentioned. “Shelby was tremendous instrumental in serving to me provide you with inventive assignments, a lot of which she initiated on her personal.”
College students mentioned Sinclair created a nurturing surroundings below tough circumstances. “I can’t overstate her thoughtfulness, persistence and insightful steering as we moved by means of delicate, complicated subjects,” mentioned one scholar. “Our class collectively was on Zoom, and I used to be at all times impressed with how she appeared to have the ability to inform if somebody had even the intention to talk — one thing that many academics can’t do even in individual.”
Merlijn Staps
A fourth-year Ph.D. scholar in ecology and evolutionary biology, Merlijn Staps was acknowledged for his work educating “Mathematical Modeling in Biology and Drugs.” Corina Tarnita, director of the Program in Environmental Research, lauded Staps’ educating talents and dedication. “Merlijn has a pure intuition and instinct for the best way to actually interact all college students to be current and assume critically in regards to the materials,” Tarnita mentioned.
College students praised Staps’ persistence and interesting methods for explaining complicated topics. “I at all times felt that he was invested in guiding us to construct up our personal understanding of the ideas, reasonably than strictly dictating to us how we should always study and perceive them,” in keeping with one scholar. “As a result of he took the time to show us in regards to the primary logic behind statistical checks and never simply the best way to use them, I really feel I’ve a much better crucial eye for studying scientific literature and a stronger sense of the correct function of statistical fashions in impartial work,” one other scholar mentioned.
Rajiv Sambharya
Rajiv Sambharya, who’s a third-year Ph.D. scholar in operations analysis and monetary engineering, served as an AI for “Optimization: Determination-Making within the Age of Computer systems.”
Sambharya went “above and past” in his educating duties, mentioned Assistant Professor of Operations Analysis and Monetary Engineering Bartolomeo Stellato: “Rajiv has been extraordinarily supportive and understanding together with his college students whereas being beneficiant together with his time,” providing further overview classes, prolonged workplace hours and one-on-one conferences with college students.
College students had been grateful for Sambharya’s meticulous preparation. “The scholars appreciated the depth of his notes and the way his notes complemented what was taught in lecture, boosting our confidence in unfamiliar subjects and solidifying different subjects that we could have discovered prior to now,” one scholar mentioned.
Katelyn Randazzo
Katelyn Randazzo, a sixth-year Ph.D. scholar in chemical engineering and supplies science, served because the Quin Morton ’36 Instructing Fellow within the Princeton Writing Program, educating a writing seminar titled “Eureka! Moments” that examines the intersection between discovery narratives and the work of innovation.
Amanda Irwin Wilkins, director of the Princeton Writing Program, mentioned Randazzo teaches “by first constructing a bond, after which attracts on that bond to steer her college students to new depths of understanding and complexity. Katelyn has demonstrated exceptional talent at main her college students to domesticate their crucial curiosity and to deepen their sense of why students analysis and write the way in which they do.”
College students commented that their writing had improved dramatically due to her in-depth feedback on their papers and the additional time she spent with them. Her suggestions “helped crystallize the best way to write a nuanced, debatable but in addition authentic thesis and the best way to put scholarly sources into dialog with one another with out simply parroting the concepts of the sources,” one scholar mentioned.
Soojung Han
Soojung Han is graduating in Might with a Ph.D. in East Asian research. She was nominated for her work as a co-instructor, with Professor of Historical past and East Asian Research Thomas Conlan, on the course “Medieval Asian Worlds: Korea, Japan, China, Internal and South Asia 300 CE-1700 CE.”
“Han is a naturally proficient instructor, and a devoted one as nicely, who at all times got here to class with polished lectures,” Conlan mentioned. He remarked that even shy college students began asking questions within the class, a tribute to how comfy Han made them really feel.
“Sooji’s informative and interactive lectures, coupled together with her improbable capacity to mentor us and supply suggestions on assignments, made me actually take pleasure in a subject that was comparatively new to me,” wrote one scholar.
Full record of 2022 Graduate Scholar Instructing Award recipients:
Tiffany Barron, Division of Politics
Jacqueline Campbell, Division of English
Perry Carter, Division of Politics
Juan Castro Vincenzi, Division of Economics
Chloe Cavanaugh, Division of Molecular Biology
Danielle Chase, Division of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Katherine Dennis, Division of Classics
Bernardo Gouveia, Division of Chemical and Organic Engineering
Soojung Han, Division of East Asian Research
William Hofstadter, Division of Molecular Biology
Julie Kim, Division of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Tamara Klajn, College of Public and Worldwide Affairs
Jessica LeGare, Division of East Asian Research
Eric Manning, Division of Politics
Collin McManus, Division of Molecular Biology
Daniel Morrison, Division of Economics
Dong Woo Noh, Division of Economics
Lindsay Ofrias, Division of Anthropology
Karem Oktar, Division of Psychology
Katelyn Randazzo, Division of Chemical and Organic Engineering
James Roggeveen, Division of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Rajiv Sambharya, Division of Operations Analysis and Monetary Engineering
Joanna Schneider, Division of Chemical and Organic Engineering
Carolina Seigler, Division of Sociology
Shelby Sinclair, Division of Historical past
Merlijn Staps, Division of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Karina Tachihara, Division of Psychology
Grega Ulen, Division of Comparative Literature
Alejandro Virue, Division of Spanish and Portuguese
