🎉 Congratulations to Yuyu Zhang! 🎉
Our Center’s junior fellow and PhD student in the Department of East Asian Studies, Yuyu Zhang, has been named one of the three inaugural recipients of the College of Humanities GAT Award for Teaching Excellence!
The GAT Award for Teaching Excellence is intended to honor College of Humanities Ph.D. students early in their studies who have demonstrated outstanding promise in teaching and who have demonstrated a committed and sustained effort to ensure the quality of the students’ learning experience. One award is given for each Ph.D. program in the College. Recipients of this award will receive $2,000.
Zhang is currently a Ph.D. student majoring in Chinese Buddhism. She received a master’s degree in Law from Shanghai University and a master’s degree in Asian Studies from UC Santa Barbara. She was a lecturer for twelve years, teaching Chinese Administrative Law. Her current research interest is Chan Buddhism in medieval China.
At the U of A, Zhang has served as a GAT in courses including Zen Buddhism (EAS/RELI 222) and Worlds of Buddhism (EAS 160 A1). She has developed as an instructor to provide detailed individualized feedback for students, and also effectively shared her specific research interest with students, wrote Alison Jameson, Associate Professor of Practice, in nominating Zhang for the award.
“From an instructor perspective, I cannot emphasize enough Yuyu’s lively interest in both the course material and her students,” Jameson said. “She is almost infectiously enthusiastic about her role, which was obvious to students in her detailed, helpful feedback. Her feedback was the most careful and extensive I have ever seen from a GAT, with the consistently short turnaround time so vital in 7-week courses.”
Read the full article and learn more about each recipient at: https://humanities.arizona.edu/news/three-doctoral-students-honored-award-teaching-excellence