The UCLA Academic Personnel Office recently announced the recipients of the Unit 18 professional development awards for 2018–19. The awards support the professional growth and pedagogical initiatives of lecturers, officially known as Unit 18 non-Senate faculty at UCLA.
The non-senate council on professional development, a committee composed of lecturers drawn from different academic fields, grants funds to proposals that explain the feasibility of teaching projects that improve pedagogy and demonstrate the applicant’s participation in a variety of endeavors and activities that are relevant to the candidate’s discipline and professional development.
The recipients are:
Anthropology: Jan Hauck
Asian American Studies: Kim Tran
Asian Languages and Cultures: Jennifer Jung-Kim, Xiaoxin Sun, Jenjit Gasigitamrong, Asako Takakura, Michelle Smith, Yan Shen and Juliana Wijaya
Chemistry and Biochemistry: Eric Scerri and Laurence Lavelle
Chicana and Chicano Studies: Michaela Mares-Tamayo
Communications: John Kochian
Dentistry: Deborah Termeie
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology: Leryn Gorlitsky
English: Reed Wilson, Joseph Dimuro, Kimberly Hedlin and Colleen Jaurretche
Ethnomusicology: Andrew Kluth
Film, TV and Digital Media: Jonathan Kuntz and Maria Carreras
French and Francophone Studies: Ariane Helou
Germanic Languages: Miriam Koral
Graduate School of Education and Information Studies: Melissa Arias and Imelda Nava
Information Studies: Julia Gosart
International Institute: Susan Wiksten
Lab School: Antonette Chavez, Joyce Friedman, Shanna Cohen, Cristina Paul, Elena Perez and Lisbeth Woodington
Latin American Studies: Bonnie Taub
Linguistics: Victoria Mateu
Music: Aubrey Foard and Rakefet Hak
Political Science: Shahin Berenji
Psychology: Amber Ankowski
School of Nursing: Stacey Green
Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures: Susan Kresin
Spanish and Portuguese: Mariska Bolyanatz and Carla Suhr
Undergraduate Education Initiatives: Sara Burdorff
Writing Programs: Dominiqua Dickey, Laila Hualpa, Leslie Sherwood, Carleen Velez, Maja Manojlovic, Andrew Martinez, Amber West, Linzi Juliano, Jeremy Kelley, Dana Watson, Esha De, David Kipen and Nedda Mehdizadeh
