Any college or university department chair may nominate up to five TAs at that institution to be recognized with an AAPT Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.

The award includes a certificate and a complimentary one-year student membership in AAPT. The award winner also chooses to receive an annual subscription to either the American Journal of Physics or The Physics Teacher. 2008 awardees are listed below.

Annual deadline for nominations is June 16.

For further information on this program, contact the AAPT Membership Department at membership@aapt.org.

Outstanding Teaching Assistants, 2008

(Listed Alphabetically by University)

Auburn University – Auburn, AL
Nominator: Joseph D. Perez
Brian G. Green
James L. Tracy, Jr.

Brigham Young University – Provo, UT
Nominator: Ross L. Spencer
David Baxter
Xi Chen
John Harrison
Bailey Hsu
Ross L. Spencer

California State University – Fresno, CA
Nominator: Gerardo A. Munoz
Andrea A. De Gill

California State University – Northridge, CA
Nominator: Ana Cristina Cadavid
Michael Lund
Chris Wolowiec

Colby College – Waterville, ME
Nominator: Duncan A. Tate
David E. Connick
Lauren P. Rand

Colorado School or Mines - Golden, CO
Nominator: James Horwitz
Somilkumar Rathi

Colorado State University – Fort Collins, CO
Nominator: Hans D. Hochheimer
Lei Chen
Kenneth J. Lonnquist
Daniel Ruterbories

Cornell University – Ithaca, NY
Nominator: Saul A. Teukolsky
Turan Birol
Chung K. Kim
Eric Monkman
Wee D. Teo

Duke University – Durham, NC
Nominator: Daniel J. Gauthier
Kristine Callan
Willie C. H. Ong

George Mason University – Fairfax, VA
Nominator: Robert Ehrlich
Emily Mathison

Georgia Institute of Technology – Atlanta, GA
Nominator: Mei-Yin Chou
Jogia Bandyopadhyay
Daniel Borrero
Marcos D. Caballero
David Torrance

Indiana University - Perdue University – Indianapolis, IN
Nominator: Gautam Vemuri
Christopher Jamell
Jordan Siemon
Prashant Srinivasan

Miami University – Oxford, OH
Nominator: Michael J. Pechan
Jeremy Hohertz
Jennifer Mantini
Tiandan Wu

Michigan Tech University – Houghton, MI
Nominator: Michael R. Meyer
Alexndria Blancharo
Aaron Brickman
Matt Dunkman
Michael Gussent
Abhay P. Singh

Montana State University – Bozeman, MT
Nominator: William A. Hiscock
Matthew Adams
Jacob Plovanic
Jeremy Wolf

Northeastern University – Boston, MA
Nominator: Srinivas Sridhar
Kathy R. Chaurasiya
Daniel Feldman
David Moser
Francisco Reynoso

Ohio University - Main Campus – Athens, OH
Nominator: Joseph Shields
Greg Petersen
David A. Ruiz-Tijerina

Ohio University – Vanceburg, KY
Nominator: Joseph Shields
Kevin W. Cooper

Penn State University – University Park - University Park, PA
Nominator: Jayanth Banavar
Colin E. Campbell
Mikhail Kagan
Jian Wu

Portland State University – Portland, OR
Nominator: Erik Bodegom
Greg Bostrom
Micah Eastman
Laura Satterfield

Ramapo College of New Jersey – Mahwah, NJ
Nominator: Daneila Buna
Matthew A. Earle

Rutgers State University - Piscataway – Piscataway, NJ
Nominator: Torgny Gustafsson
Sinisa Coh

San Francisco State University – San Francisco, CA
Nominator: Susan M. Lea
Michelle Krok

Seattle Pacific University – Seattle, WA
Nominator: John M. Lindberg
Josh Anderson
Kelsey Cline
Sean Ong
Cody Vanderpol
Megan Wrightman

Nominator: Soren P. Sorensen
Christopher R. Smith

Stanford University – Stanford, CA
Nominator: Patricia Burchat
Mustafa Amin
Asimina Arvanitaki
Erez Berg
Chao-yu Jack Perng
David Starr

Texas A and M University – College Station, TX
Nominator: Edward Fry
Jonathan Asaadi
Tristan Leggett
James Maxin
Christopher O'brien
Michael Van Dyke

The Ohio State University – Columbus, OH
Nominator: Evan R. Sugarbaker
Rajani Ayachitula
Meredith Howard
James Morris
Austen Rau

Tulane University – New Orleans, LA
Nominator: James H. McGuire
Basil Davis
Colin McFaul

University of Arkansas – Fayetteville, AR
Nominator: Surendra P. Singh
Richard William Campbell

University of Denver – Denver, CO
Nominator: Davor Balzar
Brian Appleby
Azure Avery
Brian Kloppenborg

University of Kentucky – Lexington, KY
Nominator: Michael Cavagnero
John Nichols
Brian Ray

University of Missouri – Saint Louis, MO
Nominator: Bruce A. Wilking
David R Coss

University of New Mexico – Albuquerque, NM
Nominator: Bernd Bassalleck
Luis Felipe Gonzalez

University of New Mexico - Main Campus – Albuquerque, NM
Nominator: Bernd Bassalleck
Luis Felipe Gonzalez-Palacio
Katherine A. Richardson-McDaniel
Cristina Rodriquez

University of Tennessee – Knoxville - Knoxville, TN
Nominator: Soren P. Sorensen
Amal Al-Wahish
Elton L. Freeman
Jordan D. McDonnel

University of Wisconsin – Madison - Madison, WI
Nominator: Evan R. Sugarbaker
Matthew McCaskey

Nominator: Susan Coppersmith
Yuanfeng Gao
Andrew Long
Eva Tsoncheva
Will Williams

University of Illinois – Chicago, IL
Nominator: Henrik Aratyn
Adam W. Schuman

University of Minnesota – Minneapolis, MN
Nominator: James Kakalios
Andrew Gustafson
Yeonbae Lee
Brian Skinner
Feifei Wei

University of Notre Dame – Notre Dame, IN
Nominator: Mitchell Wayne
Matthew Bowers
Antonios Kontos
Georgios Magkotsios
Nan Sun

University of Rochester – Rochester, NY
Nominator: Barbara Warren
Maria Alejandra Barrios Garcia

Nominator: Maria Alejandra Barrios Garcia
Justin Dressel

University of Texas – Austin, TX
Nominator: James Horwitz
Mark Kipling
Ajani L. Ross
Katherine E. Yeager

Washington State University – Pullman, WA
Nominator: Steve Tomsovick
Marc Binney
Ranga Dias
Brooks Harrop
Kumud R. Poudel

Wayne State University – Detroit, MI
Nominator: Jogindra Wadehra
Mohammad AlFiky

Winsor School - Durham, NC
Nominator: Daniel J. Gauthier
Kristine Callan

Yale University – New Haven, CT
Nominator: Daniel Prober
Daniel Santavicca
Hui Tang