The UCLA Academic Personnel Office has selected 80 lecturers campuswide to receive Unit 18 Professional Development Awards for 2015-2016.
The awards support the professional growth and pedagogical initiatives of lecturers, officially known as Unit 18 non-Senate faculty. Funds are granted for proposals by lecturers for teaching projects to improve pedagogy, while also demonstrating the applicant’s substantive participation in a variety of endeavors and activities that are relevant to the candidate’s discipline and professional development. Recipients are selected by the Non-Senate Council on Professional Development, a committee of lecturers drawn from a wide range of academic fields.
The recipients are:
Anthropology: Sarah Megarn
Asian Languages and Cultures: Jean-Paul DeGuzman, Jane Choi, Nenita Domingo, Gyanam Mahajan, Jae Eun Im Mitsunaga, Yan Shen, Michelle Smith, Xiaoxin Sun, Asako Takakura, Juliana Wijaya
Architecture and Urban Design: Margo Handwerker
Art/Art History: Sami Siegelbaum
Chemistry and Biochemistry: Laurence Lavelle, Eric Scerri
Civil and Environmental Engineering: Phillip Gedalanga, Sim-lin Lau
Comparative Literature and Near Eastern Studies: Simona Livescu
Dentistry: Jane Kwon, Deborah Termeie
Electrical Engineering/Writing Programs: Dana Cairns Watson
English: Jacquelyn Ardam, Karen Cunningham, Namrata Poddar
Theater, Film, Television and Digital Media: Amy Chaffee, Alex Franklin, Ben Raphael Sher, Erin Hill, Maria Elena De las Carreras, Jonathan Kuntz, Chantal Rodriguez, Maya M. Smukler
Germanic Languages: Miriam Koral
Graduate School of Education and Information Studies: Snowden Becker, Darlene Fish, Joyce Friedman, Sylvia Gentile, Rebecca Heneise, Julie Kern-Schwerdtfeger, Ding Kong, Michaela Mares-Tamayo, Cindy Mediavilla, Rosa Navarro-Torres, Kelly A. Serrano, Carla-Anne Thomas, Rosangela Viera, Christopher Wilson, Jennalee Wolter
Latin American Studies: Bonnie Taub
Linguistics: Olga Ivanova
Music/Musicology/Ethnomusicology: Gloria Chen, Audrey Foard, Andrew J. Pettit, Dave Wilson
Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics: Jordan Moberg-Parker
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures: Emily Cole, Peter Lanfer, Jennifer Pantoja
Philosophy: Anthony Cross
Political Science: Cynthia Lebow
School of Nursing: Mary Canobbio
Social Welfare: Derrick Kranke, Luisa Lowe, Kathleen West
Spanish and Portuguese: Greg Cohen
Statistics: Nikhy Bryon Aragam, Juana Sanchez
Study of Religion: Donald Westbrook
Writing Programs: Leslie Bennett, Tamar Christensen, Esha Niyogi De, Randall Fallows, Thomas Hitchner, Colleen Jaurretche, David Kipen, Mia McIver, Nedda Mehdizadeh, Tara Prescott, Greg Rubinson, Carleen Velez
