Hello, I have the pleasure of announcing that Nate Deshmukh Towery has won the Siegel Teaching Prize recipient for 2010 for exemplary teaching of STS. In the words of the selection committee, Roz Williams and Sherry Turkle:
"Nate was the TA for a new subject, Energy Decisions, Markets & Policies (21A.341J), which was joint-listed among four departments - courses 21A, 11, 14 and 15. Two of the three professors for the class, Susan Silbey (Anthropology) and Richard Schmalensee (Sloan) submitted glowing nominations of Nate's work with the class. Professor Silbey was greatly appreciative of his preparatory research and organization of course materials. She writes, "I have never had a more able TA willing to take on more and more of the responsibility and accomplish the tasks with as much integrity and intelligence." She also comments that the students were impressed by and appreciative of Nate's ability to provide connective threads in class combining multiple disciplines and topics as well as three professors. Professor Schmalensee also praises Nate's excellent relationship with the students, in part through his creativity in structuring recitation sections. He adds, "I have never had a better TA in all my years teaching, and I would be surprised (though delighted for my HASTS colleagues!) if there’s a better one nominated for this Prize." For his extraordinary work in a complicated situation, we are delighted to award Nate the fourth annual Siegel Prize for outstanding service as a TA among HASTS graduate students." Please join me in congratulating Nate on this award, and on his exemplary teaching and accomplishment. The Siegel prize also comes with a $2,500 cash award. Many thanks to Sherry and Roz for their work on the selection committee. best, d _______________________________________________ Sci-tech-public mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/sci-tech-public
