2016-2017 Academic Senate Distinguished Faculty Awards
Distinction In Teaching Awarded to Jennifer Perkins & Vincanne Adams
Distinction In Mentoring Awarded to M. Maria Glymour & Miriam Kuppermann
The Academic Senate is pleased to announce this year’s recipients of the Distinction In Teaching and the Distinction In Mentoring Awards.
Recipients of the Academic Senate Distinction In Teaching Awards and the Distinction In Mentoring Awards will be honored at the Academic Senate Distinguished Faculty Awards Ceremony to be held Tuesday, April 25, 2017 at 3:30 p.m. in the Lange Room at the UCSF Library on the Parnassus campus.
For 2017, the Academic Senate Distinction in Teaching Award for faculty at UCSF five years or fewer goes to Jennifer Perkins, DDS, MD, Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dentistry.
The 2017 Academic Senate Distinction in Teaching Award for faculty at UCSF more than five years goes to Vincanne Adams, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair, Department of History & Social Medicine, School of Medicine.
To select each year’s recipients the Academic Senate Committee on Academic Personnel designates a selection committee comprised of faculty and student representatives from all four schools. Student representatives are assigned by Associate Deans from each of the respective Schools. This award honors teaching efforts with both students and residents.
The 2017 recipient of the Academic Senate Distinction In Mentoring Award for faculty at the Associate rank is M. Maria Glymour, ScD, MS, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Medicine.
The 2017 recipient of the Academic Senate Distinction In Mentoring Award for faculty at the rank of full Professor is Miriam Kuppermann PhD, MPH, Professor In Residence, Departments of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences and Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Medicine.
The Distinction In Mentoring Award Selection Committee is appointed by the Associate Deans in the respective Schools, and is Chaired by a member of the Committee on Academic Personnel. The review committee has equal representatives from all four schools, and is comprised of four professor-level faculty and four at the level of associate professor. This award honors mentoring efforts with both faculty and fellow.
To select each year’s Distinction in Teaching Award recipients, the Academic Senate Committee on Academic Personnel designates a selection committee comprised of faculty and student representatives from all four schools. Student and faculty representatives are assigned by Associate Deans from each of the respective Schools. The Chair of the Award Selection Committee is a member of the Committee on Academic Personnel.
Date/Location: Tuesday, April 25, 2017 at 3:30 p.m. in Lange Room at the UCSF Library, Parnassus Campus