Vikram Baliga, Ph.D.
PSS's own Vikram Baliga is one of 15 Texas Tech University instructors to be named as a recipient of a 2021 Diamond Award.
The award was created by the Teaching Academy and the Teaching, Learning, & Professional Development Center (TLPDC) to recognize faculty whose innovative and adaptive teaching strategies went above and beyond to connect with their students amid the pressures of a global pandemic. As institutions at all levels around the world shifted and pivoted, teachers put in invaluable extra work in order to shift to online, hybrid, and socially-distanced classrooms.
Baliga's engaging, expert teaching helped to ease stress on students and demonstrated a "we can do hard things" attitude over the past year while sharing his horticultural expertise.