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April 27, 2006

UNM Outstanding Teaching Honored at May 3 Event

An awards ceremony honoring outstanding University of New Mexico teachers is scheduled for Wednesday, May 3 from 2-4 p.m. in Student Union Building Ballroom C. Individual awards will be presented for Outstanding Teaching Assistant, Outstanding Adjunct Faculty Teacher of the Year, Outstanding Teacher of the Year and Presidential Teaching Fellowships.

Organized by the Office of the Provost, Center for Scholarship, Teaching and Learning (CASTL) and the Teaching Enhancement Committee for Awards and Fellowships, the awards are funded by an endowment from the late Cyrene Mapel, UNM regent from 1962-74. She established the endowment specifically to reward teacher and faculty scholar excellence.

This year's Presidential Teaching Fellow is Michael J. Nakamaye, associate professor from Mathematics and Statistics in the College of Arts and Sciences. The award will be presented by Acting President David Harris.

Leslie Donovan, associate professor, University Honors in University College , and Julia Scherba de Valenzuela, assistant professor, Education Specialties in the College of Education , will receive Outstanding Teachers of the Year. Presenting the awards will be Provost Reed Dasenbrock and Kate Krause, chair, Faculty Senate Teaching Enhancement Committee.

Three will receive Outstanding Adjunct Teachers and Lecturers of the Year. They are Steven Homer, lecturer III, School of Law; Patricia Rosas Lopategui, part time faculty in Women's Studies and Spanish and Portuguese, College of Arts and Sciences; and M. Virginia Wilmerding, adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Physical Performance and Development, College of Education. Dasenbrock and Krause will present these awards.

Outstanding TAs, the Susan Deese-Roberts Awards, will be presented by Amy Wohlert, interim dean, Office of Graduate Studies. Recipients are Catie Berkenfield, linguistics; Melissa L. Curtin, Communications and Journalism; Erik Barry Erhardt, statistics; Ralph R. Gomez, math; Andrea Mays, American Studies and Women's Studies; Lena McQuade, Women's Studies; and Wanessa Velloso Batista, Portuguese.

 

 

 


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