The Academic Senate Awards will be presented on Wednesday, February 19, 2020 5:00 p.m. at the Newkirk Alumni Center.
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2019-2020
Distinguished Senior Faculty Award for Research
Eric Rignot
Chair, Donald Bren Professor, and Chancellor’s Professor, Department of Earth System Science
Lecture Title: On the Uncertainties of Projecting Sea Level Rise from Melting Ice Sheets
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2019-2020
Distinguished Mid-Career Faculty Award for Research
Timothy Tait
Chair and Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
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2019-2020
Distinguished Early-Career Faculty Award for Research
Jenny Yang
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry
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2019-2020
Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching
Valerie Jenness
Professor, Department of Criminology, Law & Society
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2019-2020
Distinguished Early-Career Faculty Award for Teaching
Angela Jenks
Assistant Professor of Teaching, Department of Anthropology
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2019-2020
Daniel G. Aldrich, Jr. Faculty Award for Distinguished University Service
Martha Mecartney
Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Photo credit: D. Cody, Portland Event Photography
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2019-2020
Distinguished Mid-Career Faculty Award for Service
Lisa Grant Ludwig
Chair and Professor, Department of Population Health & Disease Prevention
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2019-2020
Distinguished Faculty Award for Mentorship
Anita Casavantes Bradford
Associate Professor, Departments of Chicano/Latino Studies and History
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2019-2020
Academic Senate Special Award for Impact on Society
Cornelia Pechmann
Professor of Marketing, Paul Merage School of Business