APGA gives prizes to graduate assitants in
instruction
The Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni
(APGA) gave its year 2000 awards for excellence in
graduate student teaching to
Virgil Moorefield of the Music
Department, John Naud of Physics, Roman
Shimanovich of Chemistry and Kimberlee
Weaver of Psychology. In addition, the Friends
of the International Center have made possible a
new prize to be awarded each year to an
international graduate student; this year's prize
goes to Andromache Karanika of Classics.
Moorefield, who earned his bachelor's
degree in comparative literature and an MA in
English and comparative literature at Columbia
University, was previously at the Juilliard School
and the Mannes College of Music. He has been an
assistant in instruction for a number of courses,
including Computer and Electronic Music
Composition.
Naud, a fourth-year student, came to
Princeton from California Institute of Technology
with a National Science Foundation fellowship.
While working on his dissertation in theoretical
condensed matter physics, he has been a teaching
assistant in Thermal Physics.
Shimanovich is a third-year student. He
came to Princeton from MIT, where he received
bachelor's degrees in both chemistry and biology.
Of his work as assistant in instruction in
Biochemistry, one of his students said, "He loves
teaching, and it shows."
Weaver, a third-year student, received
her bachelor's degree at the University of
Colorado, Boulder. She has precepted for several
courses, most recently Abnormal Psychology.
Karanika, a fifth-year student, received
her bachelor's degree in classics at the
Aristotelian University in Greece and her master's
at Washington University. Her name will appear as
coauthor on a new textbook and reader of Modern
Greek recently written by a Princeton-Dartmouth
team.
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