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.
Sylvie Martin-Eberhardt is a junior biology and linguistics double major. She has served as a teaching assistant in the biology department's Biology of Birds course in three different semesters, as well as Collins Living Learning Center's Edible Wild Plants Class. Sylvie has also co-led a Wild Flower Foray hike, volunteered for Science Fest, and helped proctor tests for Indiana State Science Olympiad. She loves being in the field—from hiking, birding, and botanizing—to researching insects and plants as well as working with her students. Sylvie plans to go on to earn a Ph.D. in evolution or ecology of plants, and hopes to continue being a teacher, researcher, and naturalist.
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