University Graduate Teaching Awards

The Harold F. Martin Graduate Assistant Outstanding Teaching Award is sponsored jointly by the Graduate School, through the Harold F. Martin Graduate Assistant Outstanding Teaching Award endowment, and the Office of the Vice President and Dean for Undergraduate Education.

This award recognizes students who have served as graduate teaching assistants for at least two semesters within the last two years. These students, in their time as graduate teaching assistants, have demonstrated outstanding teaching performance and were nominated by a faculty or staff member for their excellence.

Departmental Graduate Student Teaching Awards

Department of Physics

The Physics Department honors several of its best Teaching Assistants with Graduate TA Awards. Since Spring 2005 this has included our highest award, the Stan Shepherd Teaching Award, named in honor former Penn State Physics faculty colleague, Stan Shepherd. The Stanley Shepherd Graduate Teaching Assistant Award is given to a senior Physics graduate student who has excelled in teaching and who has contributed to the instructional mission of the Physics Department above and beyond their assigned TA duties.

Department of Chemistry

The Department of Chemistry awards the Dan H. Waugh Memorial Teaching Award to outstanding graduate teaching assistants each year. This award was established by the family and friends of Dan Waugh, a former chemistry graduate student at Penn State. The larger, collective title, which continues to include the Waugh Award, now recognizes the various endowments that make these awards possible. The award, which is presented annually, recognizes excellence in and dedication to teaching and undergraduate education.