Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Lunch

Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Lunch 2025

In honor of Graduate Student Appreciation Week, each year the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL) hosts a celebration lunch for graduate students nominated by their undergraduate students or mentees in recognition of their outstanding teaching in the classroom, lab, or as a mentor. Notes of appreciation from the nominations will be shared during the event. 

DCAL, the campus center for teaching and learning, offers a broad range of programming to assist graduate students and postdocs in their current and future teaching roles. 

2026 Graduate Student Nominees

  • Aidan Hennessey, MATH 22
  • Casey Dowdle, MATH 23
  • David Krimer, Research mentor
  • Emma Ricci-De Lucca, Research mentor
  • Jack Cui, COSC1
  • Kaelen Baird, MATH 22
  • Mackintosh B. Willingham, WRIT 2-3
  • Stella Hokeness, Research mentor
  • Vafa Batool, Research mentor
  • Vedang Puranik, CHEM 51 & 52  
  • Yanevith Pena Gamez, Research mentor
  • Ziaire Sherman, Jazz orchestra