Congratulations to Maria Sitzler-Sawicki for receiving the Graduate School’s Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award for 2018!

Approximately 4,000 UMD graduate students also serve the campus as administrative, research, or teaching assistants. The Graduate School has established this new award to recognize and honor the outstanding contributions that Graduate Assistants provide to students, faculty, departments, administrative units, and the University as a whole. The award conveys the honor of being named among the top 2% of campus Graduate Assistants in a given year.

The members of the faculty in the Department of the Germanic Studies are very proud of Maria and of all her accomplishments as a MA student and a Teaching Assistant. We wish her the very best in her future pursuits!