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Dolovich Wins UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award March 16, 2021
UCLA School of Law Professor Sharon Dolovich has been selected to receive the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award for 2020-21, with an additional citation for Distinction in Teaching at the Graduate Level.
With only six professors across the UCLA campus so honored, the Distinguished Teaching Award is the university’s highest recognition of excellence in the classroom. The UCLA Academic Senate has presented the award since 1961 “to increase awareness of UCLA’s leadership in teaching and public service by honoring individuals who bring respect and admiration to teaching, at UCLA.” In addition to the honor for members of the university’s tenure-track faculty, awards also go to leading lecturers and teaching assistants.
300 people log in for two UC Davis prelims, followed by the main event
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They reached across the ocean, 5,000 miles away, and delighted in the challenge, the congeniality and the conviviality of the final event in the Eric Conn Memorial Biochemistry Quizzes.
The final, last Wednesday (March 10), not only memorialized a UC Davis plant biochemist, but offered “Zoom fatigue relief” for UC Davis undergraduate students and Cardiff University students, said the organizer and moderator, Walter Leal, UC Davis distinguished professor of molecular and cellular biology.
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Professor Conn (1923-2017), a UC Davis faculty member for 43 years, was the third recipient of the UC Davis Prize for Undergraduate Teaching and Scholarly Achievement. He received the Academic Senate’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 1974 and the senate’s highest honor, the Faculty Research Lecturer Award (now called the Faculty Distinguished Resea
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Andy Atkeson, the Stanley M. Zimmerman Professor of Economics and Finance, has been awarded the Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award for best undergraduate teaching in fall 2020. He was recognized for his Econ 167 and Econ 188M courses, adapting his teaching methods to provide a high level of education to students in a virtual setting.
His Econ 167 course Victims and Villains; Panics and Bubble focuses on the phenomena of panics, bubbles and manias in financial history. Econ 188M Practicum in Social Entrepreneurship offers a full-scale immersion into the challenges of launching a social enterprise.
Atkeson has published papers in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. He has been an associate editor of the American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies and Quarterly Journal of Economics. His research spans a variety of topics in macroecono
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LOUISVILLE, Ky., March 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ ScholarRx is pleased to announce that Dr. Aviad Adi Haramati has joined the ScholarRx Academic Advisory Board, which is chaired by Dr. Charles Prober of Stanford University.
Dr. Haramati is a Professor of Integrative Physiology and the co-director of the Graduate Program in Integrative Medicine & Health Sciences at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC). He received a PhD in Physiology from the University of Cincinnati and trained at Mayo Clinic before coming to Georgetown. In 2013, he was named the Founding Director of the
Center for Innovation and Leadership in Education (CENTILE) at GUMC. For the past two decades, Dr. Haramati s research has focused on medical education and rethinking how health professionals are trained.