Itamar Allali Receives GSAS Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education

Itamar Allali is a third year Ph.D. student working in the field of cosmology.
Itamar Allali

He is working with Prof. Mark Hertzberg on a range of topics related to dark matter, gravitation, and cosmic history, for which he has already published several papers.

In addition to all his research, Itamar is an extremely passionate and dedicated teacher. He has done a brilliant job in his Teaching Assistant roles and has actively sought out additional teaching duties due to his passion for helping younger students. In fact, he has been the primary instructor for PHY 13 in the summer of 2020 and will do so again in 2021.

In addition, Itamar has sort out and participated in other learning modes that are engaged in developing more equitable teaching. One example is the “Listening Project”, which is designed to help faculty and TAs hear and see more in students’ thinking, working across science disciplines.

Itamar’s teaching evaluations have consistently been excellent. For example, students have commented on him as being “super enthusiastic”, “clear”, “passionate”, “approachable”, “knowledgeable”, “humble”, and “probably the best recitation TA I’ve had at Tufts”.

Altogether, Itamar has displayed all the desired features of a great educator: knowledge, passion, care, and desire to continually grow. Along with his great progress in his research, Itamar is an outstanding student, and fully deserving of the graduate award Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education.