Student Honors

April 29, 2005

Grad School awards student George Washington Carver Fellowship

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University's Graduate School has named Magnolia Barnes, of Yazoo City, Miss., recipient of the George Washington Carver Doctoral Fellowship for 2005.

The award is presented annually to graduate students from historically black institutions and Hispanic-serving or tribal colleges who are interested in pursuing careers as professors. The tenure of the award is four years, during which Barnes will receive a stipend of $14,000, tuition scholarships, a medical insurance supplement and technology fee.

Barnes will graduate in May from the University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff, Ark., with a bachelor's degree in agricultural business. During the summer of 2004, she participated in the agricultural summer research program as a researcher in Purdue's Department of Agricultural Economics, where she will begin her master's program this fall.

Graduate teaching assistants honored at banquet

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Dozens of graduate teaching assistants from Purdue University's West Lafayette campus were honored at an April 28 banquet sponsored by the Committee for the Education of Teaching Assistants, Purdue Teaching Academy, Graduate School and Office of the Provost.

Four individuals earned Graduate School Teaching Excellence Awards, which are worth $500 each. Recipients included Darek Bulinski, agronomy; Jason Harris, health sciences; Jennifer Pate Offenberg, economics; and Mariya Omelicheva, political science.

Sixty-three graduate teaching assistants were honored by their departments and received Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards for dedication to student learning.

The Center for Instructional Excellence gave 44 graduate teaching assistants Graduate Teacher Certificates. Three others received Advanced Graduate Teacher Certificates from the center.

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