The UCLA Academic Personnel Office has selected 67 lecturers from departments across campus to receive the Unit 18 Professional Development Award for the 2017–2018 academic year.
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 substantive participation in a variety of endeavors and activities that are relevant to the candidate’s discipline and professional development.
The recipients are:
Anderson School of Management: Tamera Berges
Asian American studies: Lily Welty-Tamai
Asian languages and cultures: Hee Ju, Jennifer Jung-Kim, Asako Hayashi, Chuc Bui, Jenjit Gasigitamrong
Biomedical research minor and molecular, cell and developmental biology: Cory Evans
Chicana and Chicano studies: Nicole Strathman, David Gonzales, Lauren Guerra
Civil and environmental engineering: Paolo Zimmaro
Classics: Sarah Beckman
Comparative literature: Simona Livescu
Dentistry: Pilseong Kim
Ecology and evolutionary biology: Tonya Kane
English: Thomas Winningham, Christine Gottlieb
Film, TV and digital media: Tamera Daugherty-Martin, Neil Landau
French and Francophone: Ariane Helou
Geffen Academy: Maggie Chen
Germanic languages: Miriam Koral
Graduate School of Education and Information Studies: Darlene Lee, Eduardo Lopez, Imelda Nava, Jaime Park, Jeff Share, Jason Dorio, Jarod Kawasaki
History: Kristina Markman, Roanna Cheung, Jason Lustig
Information studies: Juliana Gosart
Lab School: Sylvia Gentile, Julie Kern, Ding Kong, Laurie Nimmo-Ramirez, Carla-Anne Thomas, Lisbeth Woodington, Shanna Cohen, Kimberley Morchower
Latin American studies: Bonnie Taub
Linguistics: Ethan Poole
Molecular cell and developmental biology: Peiyun Lee
Music: Douglas Sumi
Musicology: Ryan Koons
Nursing: Stacey Green, Mary Canobbio
Political science: Steven Bilakovics, Shahin Berenji, Cynthia Lebow
Slavic languages and literatures: Susan Kresin, Victorija Lejko-Lacan
Sociology: Terri Anderson
Spanish and Portuguese: Mariska Bolyanatz, Javier Moreno, Gemma Repiso
Theater: Erin Hill
Writing programs: Carleen Velez, Laurel Westrup, Laila Hualpa, Jeremy Kelley, Esha De, Colleen Jaurretche, Maja Manojlovic, Tara Prescott
