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The Graduate Student Association at UC Santa Barbara is pleased to announce the 2021 Excellence in Teaching Award recipients. The GSA Excellence in Teaching Award (ETA) recognizes graduate students who have shown excellence and gone above and beyond as teachers at UC Santa Barbara. Read on to learn more!

By Chava Nerenberg, Graduate Programming Assistant
Thursday, May 6th, 2021 - 3:10pm


The Graduate Student Association at UC Santa Barbara is pleased to announce the 2021 Excellence in Teaching Award recipients. The GSA Excellence in Teaching Award (ETA) recognizes graduate students who have shown excellence and gone above and beyond as teachers at UC Santa Barbara. Anyone in the UC Santa Barbara campus community can nominate a teaching assistant or associate for this award.

Award winners:

Sarah Dunne, Department of History

Magdalena Padilla, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Solaire Denaud, Comparative Literature Program

Heath Pennington, Department of Theater and Dance

George Ygarza, Department of Global Studies

Nancy Morales, Department of Feminist Studies

Karen Tsai, Department of Linguistics

Himadhari Sharma, Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology

Christopher Everett, Department of Earth Science

Jeffrey Carmichael, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Megan Elcheikhali, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability

Maite Urcaregui, Department of English

Emmanuela Schoinoplokaki, Department of Classics

Jack Strelich, Psychological and Brain Sciences

The following students received honorable mentions:

Deena Al-halabieh, Department of English

Tyler Morgenstern, Department of Film and Media Studies

Daniel Ulises Rios Arroyo, Department of Education

Anthony Wong, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

The Graduate Student Association would like to invite all campus communities and members to celebrate these outstanding graduate students, who selflessly devoted their time to the community. The virtual ceremony is on June 1 at 7 pm via Zoom. For event registration, please click here.