Ceremony & Award Winners
Teaching Awards Ceremony
Friday, October 16, 2020 3PM - 5PM
Every year the Center for Teaching Excellence, Office of Graduate Studies and the College of Arts and Sciences host a combined ceremony to recognize dedicated UNM educators.
Award winners are chosen for their commitment to excellent teaching, community engagement and their innovative pedagogy.
We invite colleagues, family, friends to attend the ceremony.
2021-2022 Teaching Excellence Award Winners
2022-2024 Presidential Teaching Fellow Winner
Dr. Laura Haniford
Department of Teacher Education, Education Leadership & Policy
Outstanding Teachers of the Year
Dr. Ilia Rodriguez Nozario
Department of Communication & Journalism
Professor Meggan Gould
Department of Art
New Teacher of the Year
Dr. Jingjing Wang
Department of Economics
Llewelynn "Welly" Fletcher
Department of Art
Lecturer of the Year
Mr. Peng Yu
Department of Language, Cultures & Literatures
Dr. Summer Hayek
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Online Teacher of the Year
Dr. Marina Popova
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Branch Campus Tenure-Track Teacher of the Year
Dr. Jerry Godbout
Science & Wellness Division, Valencia Branch Campus
Susan Deese-Roberts Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistants of the Year
Korina Apodaca Cordova
Department of Spanish & Portuguese
Austin Bell
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Jessie Bonafede
Department of English Language & Literature
Sean Fullerton
Department of Health, Exercise & Sport Sciences
Keisuke Kimura
Department of Communication & Journalism
Previous Award Winners
- Rosa Vallejos-Yópan (Presidential)
- Felisha Rohan-Minjares (Outstanding)
- Caroline Scruggs (Outstanding)
- Fletcher Christensen (New Teacher)
Sarah Townsend (New Teacher) - Frances Vitali (Lecturer)
- Breanna Griego-Schmitt (Affiliated Faculty)
- Tracy Lassiter (Branch Tenure)
- Cecille Perales (Branch Lecturer)
- Huey Yi Chang (Outstanding Teaching Assistant)
Jordan O. James (Outstanding Teaching Assistant)
Stefan Koekemoer (Outstanding Teaching Assistant)
Andrea Quijada (Outstanding Teaching Assistant)
Anja Sanchez (Outstanding Teaching Assistant)
Amy Schofield (Outstanding Teaching Assistant)
- Manuel Montoya (Presidential)
- Eva Rodriguez Gonzalez (Outstanding)
- Christine Zuni Cruz (Outstanding)
- Maryam Ahranjani (New Teacher)
- Heather Sweetser (Lecturer)
- Alaa Quarishi (Affiliated Faculty)
- Marissa Greenberg (Online Teacher)
- Josefina Bittar Prieto (Outstanding Teaching Assistant)
- Motomi Kajitani (Outstanding Teaching Assistant)
- Jonathan Keller (Outstanding Teaching Assistant)
- Erin Gould (Outstanding Teaching Assistant)
- Emma Mincks (Outstanding Teaching Assistant)
- Amy Gore (Teaching Assistant)
- Bethany Davila (Outstanding)
- Camille Dwyer (Teaching Assistant)
- Cristyn Elder (Outstanding)
- Darin Brown (Teaching Assistant)
- David Paez (Teaching Assistant)
- Debra Nieto (Teaching Assistant)
- Julianne Newark (New Lecturer)
- Marygold Walsh-Dilley (New Teacher)
- Noah Painter (New Teacher)
- Shirley Heying (Online Teacher)
- Tamar Ginossar (Presidential)
- Asal Naseri (New Lecturer)
- Benjamin Burnett (Teaching Assistant)
- Christopher Butler (Presidential)
- Finnie Coleman (Outstanding)
- Heather Canavan (Outstanding)
- Jami Nunez (New Teacher)
- Jason Moore (New Teacher)
- Kate Cartwright (New Teacher)
- Kellin Rumsey (Teaching Assistant)
- Kelly C. Da Silva (Teachin Assistant)
- Mary Hershberger (Teaching Assistant)
- Peter Lisignoli (New Lecturer)
- Regina Puccetti (New Lecturer)
- Sarah Worland (Teaching Assistant)
- Abdelbaset Haridy (Teaching Assistant)
- Brian Goldstein (New Teacher)
- Bruno Gagnon (Outstanding)
- Christopher Butler (Teacher)
- Colin Olson (Lecturer)
- Cristyn Elder (New Teacher)
- David Schneider (Lecturer)
- J. Hugo Garcia Macias (Teaching Assistant)
- Jesse Aleman (Presidential)
- Jocelyn Gonzales (Rios) (Teaching Assistant)
- Maria Velez (Teacher)
- Phillip Schoenberg (Teaching Assistant)
- Ryan Goodman (Lecturer)
- Zoe Speidel (Teaching Assistant)
- Brian Goldstein (New Teacher)
- Allen E. Butt (Lecturer)
- Amy L. Brandzel (Teacher)
- Ana June (Teacher Assistant)
- Andrew S. Taylor (Teacher Assistant)
- Bernadine Hernández (New Teacher)
- Emma Gale Trentman (New Teacher)
- Kathryn McKnight (Teacher)
- Kelly Van Andel (Outstanding)
- Laura L. Burton (Lecturer)
- Lloyd L. Lee (Presidential)
- Malik Barrett (Teacher Assistant)
- Mel Strong (Lecturer)
- Monica Mancillas (Teacher Assistant)
- Rachel F. Gift (Teacher Assistant)
