#  Winners of 2021 Certificates of Distinction and Excellence in Teaching (Q Awards) 

 





April 28, 2022

 

 

 **Congratulations to our recipients of Spring & Fall 2021 Certificates of Distinction and Excellence in Teaching (Q Awards)!**

 The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) and the Office of Undergraduate Education (OUE) give teaching awards to lecturers and preceptors, graduate student TFs and TAs, and undergraduate CAs. These awards are based on an overall score of 4.50 or higher with a minimum of 5 evaluations on the Q section evaluations.

 The Bok Center hosts receptions twice a year to honor the recipients of these awards.

 **Certificates of Distinction in Teaching: Spring 2021**  
Juhee Goyal: PHYSCI 12A Mechanics and Stat Physics  
Hyungmok Son: PHYSCI 12A Mechanics and Stat Physics  
Zoe Zhu: PHYSCI 12A Mechanics and Stat Physics  
Eliot Fenton: PHYSCI 3 Electromag, Circuits, Waves, Optics, and Imaging  
Leo Garcia: PHYSCI 3 Electromag,Circuits,Waves,Opti  
Bryan Janson: PHYSCI 3 Electromag,Circuits,Waves,Opti  
Amy Jia: PHYSCI 3 Electromag,Circuits,Waves,Opti  
Robert Kennedy: PHYSCI 3 Electromag,Circuits,Waves,Opti  
Josh Mathews: PHYSCI 3 Electromag,Circuits,Waves,Opti  
Timothy Milbourne: PHYSCI 3 Electromag,Circuits,Waves,Opti  
Daniel Puczko: PHYSCI 3 Electromag,Circuits,Waves,Opti  
Alyson Spitzig: PHYSCI 3 Electromag,Circuits,Waves,Opti  
Victoria Shen: PHYSCI 70 Digital Fabrication Intro  
Linda Xu: PHYSICS 125 Widely Applied Physics  
Mincheol Park: PHYSICS 143A Quantum Mechanics I  
Henry Shackleton: PHYSICS 153 Electrodynamics  
Erin Crawley: PHYSICS 15A Intro Mechanics & Relativity  
Elliot Schneider: PHYSICS 15B Intro Electromagnet Stat Phys  
Richard Liu: PHYSICS 15C Wave Phenomena  
Hofie Hannesdottir: PHYSICS 181 Statistical Mech & Thermodyn  
Alek Bedroya: PHYSICS 210 General Theory of Relativity  
David Kolchmeyer: PHYSICS 251B Advanced Quantum Mechanics II  
Minjae Cho: PHYSICS 253B Quantum Field Theory II  
Taylor Patti: PHYSICS 285A Modern Atomic & Optical Phys I  
Rhine Samajdar: PHYSICS 295B Quantum Theory of Solids

 **Certificates of Distinction in Teaching: Fall 2021**  
Benjamin Mazel: PHYSICS 143A Quantum Mechanics I  
Yanting Teng: PHYSICS 143B Quantum Mechanics  
Liyuan Chen: PHYSICS 151 Mechanics  
Emin Berker: PHYSICS 15B Intro Electromagnet Stat Phys  
Richard Huang: PHYSICS 15B Intro Electromagnet Stat Phys  
Brendon Bullard: PHYSICS 15C Wave Phenomena  
Jerry Ling: PHYSICS 15C Wave Phenomena  
Paloma Ocola: PHYSICS 15C Wave Phenomena  
Mincheol Park: PHYSICS 16 Mechanics & Special Relativity  
Benji Kan: PHYSICS 19 Intro Theoretical Physics  
Madelyn Leembruggen: PHYSICS 19 Intro Theoretical Physics  
Rahul Subramaniam: PHYSICS 19 Intro Theoretical Physics  
Houri Christina Tarazi: PHYSICS 19 Intro Theoretical Physics  
Andrew Saydjari: PHYSICS 195A Intro to Solid State Physics  
Aurelien Dersy: PHYSICS 253A Quantum Field Theory  
Maria Tikhanovskaya: PHYSICS 262 Statistical Mechanics  
John Wang: PHYSICS 262 Statistical Mechanics  
Ruihua Fan: PHYSICS 268AR Special Topics in QM  
Iris Cong: PHYSICS 285B Modern Atomic & Optical Physics

 **Certificates of Excellence in Teaching: Fall 2021**  
Anna Klales PHYSCI 12A Mechanics and Stat Phys  
Nathan Melenbrink PHYSCI 70 Digital Fabrication Intro  
Keith Zengel PHYSICS 15B Intro Electromagnet Stat PhysJacob Barandes PHYSICS 302A Teaching & Communicating Physi

 **Certificates of Excellence in Teaching: Fall 2021**  
Gregory Kestin: PHYSCI 2 Physical Sciences 2  
Timothy Milbourne: PHYSCI 2 Physical Sciences 2 and PHYSICS 15A Intro Mechanics & Relativity  
Jacob Barandes: PHYSICS 19 Intro Theoretical Physics