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Highlights

2018 Teaching and Service Awards
Awardees received crystal and acrylic, laser engraved trophies, walnut and black, Florentine-gold-engraved solid wood plaques, and die cast zinc medallion ribbons. There have been more than 100 awards recipients since 1982.
2018 UHD Faculty Senate President-Elect
Dr. Hsiao-Ming Wang emceed the 2018 Faculty Awards Ceremony and Reception, and presented this year's awards to UHD tenured/tenure-track faculty, and lecturers and adjuncts, for their excellence in teaching, service, scholarship, and creative activities. Awards were also given for funded faculty leave, and years of service. Dr. Wang stated, I am proud to be faculty at UHD—together we make UHD strong…
2018 Faculty Awards Recipients
(first row from left to right): Rebecca Pfeffer, Anne Kane, Dalia Sherif, Dawn McCarty, Meghan Minard, Trevor Hale; (second row from left to right) Mitsue Nakamura, Judith Harris, Travis Crone, Angela Goins, Elizabeth Hatfield, Abigail Koenig, Ray Qing Cao, Richard Simonds, Lisa Morano, Jeffrey Martz, Sandra Dahlberg, Hank Roubicek. (Emcee Dr. Hsiao-Ming Wang (first row, third from the left). Also present is UHD President Dr. Juan Sánchez Muñoz (second row, first from the right), and Vice President and Provost Mr. Ed Hugetz (second row, second from the left).
2018 UHD Faculty Senate President Dr. Trevor Hale
presented the 2018 Senate Report. Dr. Hale is also the recipient of the 2018
Excellence in Service award. He stated that out of all the things that the Faculty Senate accomplished this year, he believes that his legacy will be six more faculty parking slots in the Washington Street lot….
UHD President Dr. Juan Sánchez Muñoz
stated that he thought that he had a full appreciation for the magnitude of service, range, depth of scholarship, support, and teaching excellence at UHD until he read the faculty dossiers for rank and tenure—then he could see the empirical validation of the superior work of UHD faculty and the profound change and impact it is having on students…Dr. Muñoz also emphasized the importance of recognizing the unique achievements of adjuncts and lecturers whose contributions, he stated, are often overlooked by other universities.