Elizabeth Eisenhauer (PhD advisers: Ephraim Hanks and Matthew Beckman) was awarded the 2021 Harkness Award for outstanding efforts in teaching and scholarly approaches to teaching and learning, especially at the 300 level.
Alyssa Hu (PhD adviser: Dave Hunter) was recognized as the 2021 Runner up for the Harkness Award for her excellence in classroom teaching in lower division courses.
Tobia Boschi (PhD adviser: Francesca Chiaromonte) was awarded the 2021 Award for Support of Undergraduate Instruction for excellence in on-line instruction and service to UP instruction as a teaching assistant.
Bokgyeong Kang (PhD advisers: Murali Haran and John Hughes) was awarded the 2021 Award for Support of Graduate Instruction for excellence in support of teaching stochastic processes at the Master’s level.
Claire Kelling (PhD adviser: Murali Haran) received the received the 2022 Alumni Association Graduation Dissertation Award. The award provides funding and recognition to outstanding full-time doctor of philosophy students who have passed their comprehensive exams, have received approval of the dissertation topic and are within their final year of enrollment. This award is considered to be among the most prestigious available to Penn State graduate students and recognizes outstanding achievement in scholarship and professional accomplishment.
Roopali Singh (PhD adviser: Qunhua Li) received The International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) New Researchers Travel Award. The purpose of the ISBA New Researchers Travel Award is to support participation in ISBA Meetings by junior researchers, and is open to any junior researcher.
Roopali presented the work titled “Reference-free deconvolution of cell mixtures in spatial transcriptomics” in Montreal, Canada, in June 2022. This work is jointly supervised by Xiang Zhu and Qunhua Li.
2021 Honorable Mentions
For terrific work in supporting the teaching mission of the Department:
Lower division: Huy Dang
Upper Division: Arun Srinivasan
Graduate: Siddharth Vishwanath
Outstanding Teaching Assistant
Online MAS student Li Zhang is being recognized for her contributions as an outstanding teaching assistant!
Zhang is advised by Mosuk Chow, and in Spring 2021, Zhang graded STAT484 and STAT 485 for online MAS instructor, Tracy Hammel.
About Zhang’s contributions as a TA, Hammel said, “From the beginning of the semester, Li has been responsive and eager to help. She grades promptly and consistently, and she provides thorough feedback for the students. All communications are professional and respectful. She seems to take being a TA seriously and she does her job well.”
Congratulations, Li, and job well done!
