The department annually recognizes an Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (UTA) who is nominated for exceptional work. The 2017 award honored mycologist Michael Tansey, who is known for his dedicated teaching and his mentoring of undergraduates. Tansey has been on the IUB Department of Biology faculty since 1971 and has received departmental, campus, and national awards for his service to students.
Alli McCarty is a senior statistics major with minors in biology and mathematics. She has served as a teaching assistant in Dr. Tara Darcy’s Foundations of Biology: Diversity, Evolution, and Ecology course for three semesters. Alli has also served as a teaching assistant for classes in the statistics and mathematics department. On campus, she served on the board of Oxfam and founded the Lilly Scholars Network at IU. Outside of school, she is an avid runner and bibliophile and an amateur sous chef. After graduation, Alli will be joining Deloitte Consulting as an analyst in its Chicago office.
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