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.

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

David Biddle is someone who wants to engage his class and wants his students to go beyond mastering the technical aspects of a subject to see the beauty writes his nominator. Whether he is mentoring high school math clubs or writing courses in mathematics, he reflects deeply about all teaching matters. He is a firm believer that everyone has the ability to perceive mathematics as a dynamic subject, and his students consider him something of a 'rock star.' His communication skills are stellar, allowing him to communicate mathematics in clear and interesting ways, and his empathic, patient style and constant availability for individual help has turned a number of struggling students around. A student writes that she was "taken by his deftness in teaching" and by the classroom environment he created where stories were told and laughter was in abundance. "I would have never thought that math could be so much fun."

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.