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By Modupe Shodeinde
Chioma Onwuchekwa, a final year Ph.D. candidate of environmental science-chemistry at Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, Tennessee, USA, has been awarded the Northrup Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for the 2020/2021 academic year.
Chioma is the first first Nigerian, African and international student to ever win this award.
The award is given to teaching assistants who possess high ethical standards, dependability, punctuality, preparedness, teamwork, dedication to teaching and have demonstrated high level of professionalism in the course of carrying out their duties.
Chioma who is on a teaching scholarship, as well as serves as a Teaching Assistant said “For the past four years, I have been an instructor for general chemistry laboratory, where I teach, supervise, examine and evaluate first year university students on principles of chemistry.
“On Friday, April 30, I was awarded the Northrup Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for the 2020/2021 academic year.”
The professor who presented the award, described Chioma, whose research focuses on microplastics in aquatic ecosystems, as “an absolute pleasure to work with”, Vangaurd reports.
He also said that “Chioma constantly received the highest ratings when evaluated by the students and is generally loved by students, faculty and staff of the department.”
