Graduate students Ed Pultar and Park Williams received this year’s annual departmental awards for Excellence in Teaching and Excellence in Research, respectively. Ed won the teaching award, based on his outstanding course evaluations as a TA, outstanding written comments from students, outstanding evaluations of TA work by the course instructor, and outstanding design of course or lab syllabi or outstanding design of lab or section activities.
Park won the research award due to the exceptional nature of his national conference presentations, publications, research, and lab/ field experiments. His research deals with how large-scale climate processes affect what can grow where. using tree-ring records to quantify relationships between forest productivity and climate and statistically modeling summer fog frequency along the west coast of North America.
The awards were presented May 21, during the departmental Graduate Award Ceremony. Both awards include a stipend of $1000, and, as always, both awards were keenly contested. Hats off to both Ed and Park!
