Marijeta Bozovic
Department of Slavic Languages

You are universally admired within the Department of Slavic Languages. Your faculty predict that you will have a brilliant academic career. Fellow graduate students benefit from the intellectual enrichment you add to any course you take. And your undergraduate students passionately praise your teaching. From the start of class to its end, you engage your students and make learning language fun. Your instruction is peerless, informed by a clarity of purpose, infallible instincts about language acquisition, linguistic mastery, pedagogical creativity, humor and warmth. And your students respond, inspired by your love of the languages you teach and your patient encouragement to become better speakers of Russian, Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian. An appreciative University is proud to honor your skill and dedication with the 2006 Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student.