Arts & Sciences graduate teaching assistants (front row, from left) David Pennington, history; Suzuko Mousel Knott, Germanic languages and literatures; Scott Cook, mathematics; Stacy Mui, chemistry; (back row, from left) Violaine White, Romance languages and literatures; Srikanth Ramamurthy, economics; Brooke Taylor, English and The Writing Program; Anthony Madonna, political science; Elizabeth Donnelly, classics; and M. Mercedes Gutierrez, anthropology, receive Dean’s Awards for Teaching Excellence April 26 in the Ann W. Olin Women’s Building Formal Lounge. Jeff Brown, philosophy, and Tarah Demant, Women and Gender Studies, also received Dean’s Awards, which are given annually by Robert E. Thach, Ph.D., dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, to recognize superb performance by a graduate assistant in teaching undergraduates.