{"id":48383,"date":"2026-05-01T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/teachingawards\/?p=48383"},"modified":"2026-04-30T13:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:49:07","slug":"announcing-the-2025-26-outstanding-ta-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/teachingawards\/2026\/announcing-the-2025-26-outstanding-ta-award-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the 2025-26 Outstanding TA Award Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Announcing the 2025-26 Outstanding TA Award Winners\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Please join us in congratulating five teaching assistants who have been selected as this year\u2019s recipients of Teaching and Learning Services\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/teachingawards\/awards-for-teaching-assistants\/\" type=\"page\" id=\"47857\">Outstanding TA Award<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Elias Pantazopoulos, Systems and Computer Engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bita Fatemipour, Information Technology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hannah Crouse, Sociology and Anthropology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mahmoud Yassin, Systems and Computer Engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Matthew Huebner, Psychology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This award celebrates the support teaching assistants give to the undergraduate and graduate programs in their disciplines, their roles in establishing a positive learning environment and their work in implementing innovative teaching practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TLS received <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/teachingawards\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/197\/2026\/04\/2025-26-TLS-Outstanding-TA-Award-Nominees.pdf\">209 nominations<\/a> with many great contenders for the award this year, so the adjudication committee would like to recognize an additional five TAs through honourable mentions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Arman Rahmani, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maram Radaideh, Sociology and Anthropology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Aya Tessier, Mathematics and Statistics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Robyn Skillings, Health Sciences<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Curtis Davies, Systems and Computer Engineering<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to all recipients, honourable mentions and nominees, and thank you to the hundreds of students, peers and instructors who took the time to recognize the work of Carleton\u2019s TAs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us in congratulating five teaching assistants who have been selected as this year\u2019s recipients of Teaching and Learning Services\u2019 Outstanding TA Award: This award celebrates the support teaching assistants give to the undergraduate and graduate programs in their disciplines, their roles in establishing a positive learning environment and their work in implementing innovative 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