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.

Megan Fegley from Sayre, PA has recently received a Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching award from Binghamton University, State University of New York:

Megan Fegley serves as a perfect example of a nurturing, multi-faceted professional educator writes her nominator. She has taught from entry-level teaching assistant to instructor of record for an introductory level class of non-chemistry students. Known by faculty as an exceptionally strong teacher in both the classroom and the lab, she is simultaneously earning her Master of Arts in Teaching as well as her PhD in chemistry to further refine her pedagogical skills. She shares her passion for science and discovery with students at all levels, who note that she helps them see chemistry in a different light, not as a loathsome subject. She has also mentored and taught students in the Go Green Institute and Binghamton University Upward Bound program. A student writes that she succeeds in demonstrating that "the best way to manage a classroom is to keep students on-task with material that was both interesting and challenging."

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.