Every year the Informatics Department awards a prize to an Associate Instructor (AI) who has excelled at teaching and service. For the 2016-2017 academic year, CNetS PhD candidate Clayton A. Davis was singled out among a crowd of outstanding nominees as being particularly deserving of this award. The nomination noted Clayton's commitment to teaching and learning, the above-and-beyond work that he put into preparing creative assignments, and his overall excellence as an instructor. Clayton was “born to disseminate knowledge,” and we predict for him a brilliant career as a teacher and communicator, as well as researcher. Congratulations!