Third Annual Graduate Student Day at Drexel University
Drexel's Third Annual Graduate Student Day was held in the Mitchell Auditorium in the Bossone Research Enterprise Center on Tursday, May 8th at 4pm. Graduate Student Day celebrates the contribution of Drexel’s graduate students to the university.
Several students and faculty were recognized with awards. The winners of the Research Awards Competion are John Chmiola, Anthony Ruocco and Xiaohua Zhou. Winners of the Teaching Awards Competition are: Pramod Abichandani, Shahram Amini, Jennifer Breaux, Xiangrang Liu, Lisa Payne, Anh Tran. Dr. Lamia Barakat of the Psychology Department was chosen by the Graduate Student Association as the 2008 Mentor of the Year.
Newly appointed teaching assistants this year have participated in a series of workshops and courses to help prepare them for the classroom. Those chosen as the best of the class for this quarter's EDUC 531 are:
- Sunil Abraham
- Palakorn Achananuparp
- Kamelia Aryafar
- Jessica Battisto
- Zupenda Davis
- Bradley Hubartt
- Xinyu Jia
- Kelly Jones
- Theodoros Katerinakis
- Dmitry Leiderman
- Kaloyan Popov
- Caroline Shapcott
- Ramona Stammermann
- Joydeep Tripathi
- Zhao Xuan
Congratulations to all winners and to all those nominated! A webcast of the event is still available online.