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Tracy Winsor

Comparative Literature and Environmental Science & Policy Faculty Win 2022 UHP Outstanding Faculty Awards

  • by Viktor Pertl
Every year, the University Honors Program invites students to nominate UC Davis faculty for Outstanding Teaching and Faculty Mentorship Awards. These are our 2022 winners. Outstanding Teaching Award: Timothy Parish, Comparative Literature Faculty Member

One of the most unique aspects of the University Honors Program is the innovative, discussion-based, honors courses. UHP students have the opportunity to engage with their professors and peers through these honors classes in a way they may not be able to in a large, lecture-style course.

Dr. Ross Thompson

Psychology and Molecular & Cellular Biology Faculty Win 2020 UHP Outstanding Faculty Awards

  • by Taylor A Cameron
Every year, the University Honors Program invites students to nominate UC Davis faculty for Outstanding Teaching and Faculty Mentorship Awards. These are our 2020 winners. 2020 Faculty Mentorship Award: Dr. Francis "Frank" McNally, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology

The UHP Faculty Mentorship Award is awarded to a UC Davis faculty member for providing outstanding mentorship to a UHP student. An outstanding mentor is one who is accessible, impactful, and has played a significant role in at least one UHP student's undergraduate career.

UHP students in Dr. Lawrence Bogad's Drama 1, one of UHP's interactive honors courses.

Experiencing the Drama of Politics, Culture, and Self Through Theatre

With lessons on shuffling chairs, performing Colombian hypnosis, and creating a human tableau, UHP's Theatre, Performance, and Culture class exemplifies 50 years of interactive, interdisciplinary, experience-based learning.

Drama 1 professor Larry Bogad highlighted the work of Augusto Boal, an influential Brazilian theater practitioner and political activist, specifically his books, Games for Actors and Non-Actors and Theatre of the Oppressed.

Leah Hibel, UC Davis professor, taught HDE 12 Human Sexuality for the University Honors Program

UHP's Human Sexuality Class Helps Local Foster Youth

By Shelbie Condie

Dr. Leah Hibel, associate professor of Human Development and Family Studies, created a special project last fall. In her Human Sexuality honors course, first and second- year students developed a sexual education curriculum for regional foster youth. This project was materialized when a request was sent by Foster and Kinship Care Education, a local program that serves those who want to become foster parents in Yolo County.

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