Congratulations to Assistant Teaching Professor Michal Shuldman, who has been named a recipient of the 2025 Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of GSIs! This award, which is given by Berkeley’s Graduate Council, is a great honor that reflects Michal’s dedicated efforts to provide high quality training and mentoring to graduate students who are working as GSIs. Michal joined our faculty in July 2023, with primary responsibility for the laboratory portion of the Bio 1B course. This is our largest course and it employs a large number of GSIs each semester. Michal also teaches our graduate level seminar on pedagogy, providing a natural connection between the study and the practice of teaching. Michal was nominated for this award by some of the graduate students with whom she has worked in Bio 1B, providing clear evidence of the positive impact that she is having on the GSI experience in IB.