Fund: Physics Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award Department: Physics and Astronomy Dept D01057 Purpose: Graduate Student Support History and Purpose: Professor Robert Wild, the first physicist to join the UCR faculty and who was responsible for establishing the physics laboratories, received UCR's Distinguished Teaching Award in 1973. In 1980, he created the Physics Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award to be awarded each Spring at Commencement to an outstanding Physics teaching assistant. Selection and Guidelines: Award to outstanding Physics TA each Spring. Award to be anonymous. Selection is made by a committee of one faculty member, one graduate student and one undergraduate student. Request for Information: Request Scholarship Information