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May 1, 2002
OUTSTANDING FACULTY, TEACHING ASSISTANTS HONORED
An awards ceremony for Outstanding Teaching Assistant, Outstanding Adjunct
Faculty Teacher of the Year, Outstanding Teacher of the Year and Presidential
Teaching Fellowships was held recently at University House.
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.
From this endowment, teaching assistants receive cash awards of $400,
the adjunct faculty award is $500, and the Teacher of the Year awards
are $2,000.
2001-2002 Outstanding Teachers of the Year Award
Professor Steve Hersee, professor in Electrical and Computer
Engineering, fulltime member of the Center for High Technology Materials
(CHTM), senior member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics
Engineers, regularly teaches at the undergraduate and graduate levels,
and has contributed frequently to course and curriculum development
in the EECE department and in the School of Engineering.
Since 1991 Hersee has graduated one MS and 8 Ph.D students. He and his
research students have co-authored 37 publications, delivered 34 presentations
at scientific meetings and have been awarded $4.9 million in research
contract funding.
He uses web-based teaching and in 2001 wrote and taught a fully web-based
version of an advanced level course, EECE 575: Junction Devices. Hersee
is very interested by the pedagogical opportunities, such as "cooperative
learning," that web-based teaching allows. He continues to experiment
with the balance of online and face-to-face learning, and is finding
that online tools are improving his teaching effectiveness as well as
making the learning process enjoyable for all concerned.
Hersee also views his research program in semiconductor nanomaterials
as a powerful teaching tool. He emphasizes technical discussions of
research topics to empower students to explore beyond material covered
in the classroom.
Professor Jennifer Predock-Linnell. Predock-Linnell, professor
of dance, received her master's degree and doctorate from the University
of New Mexico College of Education and her bachelor of fine arts at
the Julliard School of Music.
Choreographer of more than 60 works produced regionally, nationally
and internationally, she is a recipient of an NEA Choreographer's Fellowship.
Her dance and dance/video works have been performed in the United States,
Australia, France, Israel, New Zealand and Portugal. In 1975, Predock-Linnell
was invited by Professor Emeritus Clinton Adams to create and head the
Dance Program in the Department of Theatre and Dance at UNM. During
her appointment she created the BFA and BA degrees in Dance.
Predock-Linnell has received more than 23 grants and awards for her
choreography, research and for teaching enhancement.
Presidential Teaching Fellowships
The Presidential Teaching Fellows program promotes excellence in teaching
by establishing a core group of faculty given the highest recognition
for their effective teaching. They also share their expertise with the
University community.
The title Presidential Teaching Fellow carries for the duration of their
UNM service. During the two years of active duty, both will receive a
cash award of $2,500 per year and $1,000 year added to their base salary.
Professor Elen Feinberg. Feinberg received her bachelor of fine
arts degree from Cornell University with a major in printmaking and
painting and a minor in Southeast Asian Art History, and her master
of fine arts from Indiana University.
Feinberg is the recipient of numerous awards and artist-in-residencies,
including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Painting,
a Fulbright Scholars' Award, and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship. Most
recently, she won international residencies in Austria and Malta.
She exhibits her paintings both nationally and internationally and
her works are in the collections of numerous distinguished museum, corporate
and private collections in the US and abroad.
Since her hire in 1978, Feinberg has been honored for her teaching,
including being on the President's List for Excellence in Teaching throughout
the 1980's. In 1991, she received a Burlington Fellowship, and in 1996
she was awarded a Regents' Professorship.
Professor Karen Foss. Foss received her Ph.D. in Speech and
Dramatic Art from the University of Iowa in 1976 and taught at Humboldt
State in northern California for 16 years before coming to UNM in 1993.
Professor of Communication and Journalism, she has also served as director
of Women Studies and as chair of the Department of Communication and
Journalism.
Her research focuses on the rhetoric of marginalized groups and texts.
She coauthored 5 books including "Contemporary Perspectives on
Rhetoric, Feminist Rhetorical Theories, and Inviting Transformation:
Presentational Speaking for a Changing World" in order to translate
her scholarship into practice in the classroom. She has advised over
25 M.A. and Ph.D. students and served on 25 additional graduate committees
as well.
Her teaching specialties include rhetorical theory, rhetorical criticism,
feminist rhetorical theory, gender and communication and public speaking.
Foss is committed to helping her students become comfortable with the
process of researching and writing and, to this end, holds bi-monthly
writing groups for her advisees, and any other students who are interested.
Foss believes in sharing the rules of the academy with students and
doing everything she can to help them make it through.
Teaching Assistants
Stan Dolega, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, College
of Arts and Sciences; Amie Kincaid, Department of Communication
and Journalism, College of Arts and Sciences; Britta Limary,
Department of Communication and Journalism, College of Arts and Sciences;
Scott Rode, Department of English, College of Arts and Sciences;
Aryn Seiler, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures,
College of Arts and Sciences; Michelle Ueland, Department of
Language, Literacy, and Socio-cultural Studies, College of Education.
Adjunct Teacher of the Year Award
L. Ralph Dawson, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
College of Engineering, received his B.S. in Engineering from the California
Institute of Technology in 1962. After working for two years at the
Northrop Space Laboratories in the area of plasma and gas dynamics,
he returned to graduate school at the University of Southern California
in 1964, where he received his M.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1965
and his Ph.D., also in E.E., in 1968.
Dawson was employed at Bell Laboratories, where he continued research
in the area of compound semiconductor growth. In 1976 he transferred
from Bell Laboratories to Sandia National Laboratories, then a sister
company to Bell Laboratories. At Sandia, he initiated the compound semiconductor
materials and devices program. Dawson was
involved with the teaching program at UNM through short courses offered
by the EECE
Department under NSF Sponsorship and also, beginning in 1990, through
the Distinguished UNM/Sandia Labs Professor Program.
In 1997, Dawson retired from Sandia Labs and joined the EECE Department
as a Research Professor in the Center for High Technology Materials.
He is active in teaching undergraduate and graduate courses as well
as directing a research program concentrating on the Molecular Beam
Epitaxial growth of semiconductor materials for a wide variety of electronic
devices.
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