The Committee for the Education of Teaching Assistants (CETA) sponsors the annual Celebration of Graduate Student Teaching Award. For every 50 graduate students, a department is allowed to nominate one Teaching Assistant for this annual award. Aaron Kyle was the TA chosen to represent BME this year. Departmental winners are recognized at an annual banquet. Students selected for this award must have demonstrated excellence in teaching and mentoring at the undergraduate and/or graduate level. In addition, award winners should have accomplishments in service/outreach and scholarly publications.

Current and past winners of this award are then also eligible to apply for the University-wide CETA award whereby winners are selected by the Graduate School/CETA Selection Committee. Two nominees from each College are forwarded to the Graduate School/CETA Selection Committee. Four winners are chosen from this pool of nominees. The Graduate School Excellence in Teaching Award is the highest award presented by the University in recognition of graduate student teachers.