Faculty Mentoring Awards

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Established in 2006, the Faculty Mentoring Awards, sponsored by the Carolina Women’s Leadership Council, recognize outstanding faculty members who go the extra mile to guide, mentor and teach. Each year the Council recognizes three recipients with an award of $5,000 each in the categories of faculty-to-undergraduate student mentoring, faculty-to-graduate student mentoring and faculty-to-junior faculty mentoring.

2019-2020 Winners

FACULTY TO UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT MENTORING
Debra Murray
Teaching Assistant Professor, Health Education Coordinator

Debra Murray has been a faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 1985 and has served in many capacities within the Department of Exercise and Sport Science (EXSS) and the university community. She was the Founder and Director of the Undergraduate Internship Athletic Training Program from 1985-1995, Aquatics Director from 2010- 2014 and Health Education Coordinator from 1995- present.

FACULTY TO JUNIOR FACULTY MENTORING
Pamela Lothspeich
Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies

Pamela Lothspeich holds a Ph.D. in South Asian area studies and comparative literature from Columbia University. Her research centers on modern adaptations of the Hindu epics in Hindi literature and film.

FACULTY TO GRADUATE STUDENT MENTORING
Donald Raleigh
Professor of History Emeritas

Donald J. Raleigh’s research and teaching interests focus on twentieth-century Russian history. As a political and social historian, he wrote extensively on the Russian Revolution, with a particular emphasis on local history.

PAST WINNERS

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Year Faculty to Undergraduate Student Faculty to Graduate Student Faculty to Junior Faculty
2019-20 Debra Murray, Health Education Donald Raleigh, Histor Pamela Lothspeich, Asian Studies
2018-19 Maria Ferris, Pediatrics Oswaldo Estrada, Romance Studies Allen Anderson, Music
2017-18 Irving Hoffman, Medicine Karen McCulloch, Allied Health Sciences Marcia Van Riper, Nursing
2016-17 Michele Berger, Women’s and Gender Studies Mark Fraser, Social Work M. Gregory Forest, Mathematics
2015 Christopher Armitage, English and Comparative Literature Daniel Riffe, Media and Journalism Susan Girdler, Psychiatry
2014 Kelly Hogan, Biology Donna Gilleskie, Economics Giselle Corbie-Smith, Social Medicine
2013 Sherryl Kleinman, Sociology Jeanne Moskal, English and Comparative Literature Silvia Tomaskova, Anthropology