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.
Meredith Osmulski is a senior biology major with a minor in psychology. She served as an undergraduate teaching assistant in the Department of Biology for Teaching Professor Susan Hengeveld for three semesters, teaching both Foundations of Biology: Diversity, Evolution, and Ecology (fall 2020) and Biology of Birds (fall 2021 and spring 2022). She also served as an undergraduate teaching intern for the IU Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, held a coordinator position within Camp Kesem at Indiana University, and did undergraduate research on plant evolution in Distinguished Professor Lynda Delph's lab. After graduation, Meredith will do research at the IU School of Medicine's Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research, focusing on pediatric diabetes and metabolic diseases in the Spaeth lab. Meredith plans to attend medical school in the fall of 2023.
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