Binghamton University student receives Graduate Excellence Award

BINGHAMTON, NY (04/01/2014)(readMedia)-- Each year, Binghamton University honors the special achievements of those graduate students who serve as teaching assistants and instructors. Nominations are invited from all graduate programs and recipients represent a variety of teaching approaches in diverse subjects.

Daniel Parisian from Kingston, NY has recently received a Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching award from Binghamton University, State University of New York:

Daniel Parisian believes that merely passing along knowledge is secondary to teaching. His primary goal is to ensure that students enhance and master the abilities and skills that will be pivotal in helping them achieve success in the future. He also believes the teacher must be interested in being in the classroom and excited about watching students change when they see that economics is not a set of boring, abstract ideas, but a practical way of thinking about the world. He comes to class well prepared and presents information in clear and interesting ways. His students write that he has courage to recognize there can be many approaches to solving a problem, that he shows genuine interest in teaching, and that he goes above and beyond in the classroom. He also offers additional office hours on a regular basis and is willing to work one-on-one until a student grasps a concept.

Binghamton University is one of the four university centers of the State University of New York. Known for the excellence of its students, faculty, staff and programs, Binghamton enrolls close to 15,000 students in programs leading to bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. Its curriculum, founded in the liberal arts, has expanded to include selected professional and graduate programs.