Provost’s Awards for Excellence

Craig W. LaMunyon, from left, Mariappan “Jawa” Jawaharlal and Jeffery S. Mio gave insights about their academic careers at the Provost’s Awards for Academic Excellence Symposium on March 2.

Provost’s Award Recipients Deliver Insights at Symposium

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For three longtime professors, their career tangents converged at an Ursa Major podium.

The recipients of the Provost’s Awards for Academic Excellence addressed the motivation behind their work at a March 2 symposium that also offered the campus community a chance to applaud their accomplishments.

“In higher education, it is our faculty that make our institutions great.” Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Sylvia A. Alva told the audience. “We’re very fortunate at Cal Poly Pomona to have very dedicated and talented faculty who care deeply about our mission, who embrace the teacher-scholar model, who understand that academic quality matters, student success matters.”

Mariappan “Jawa” Jawaharlal
Excellence in Teaching…

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Engineering Professor To Receive Prestigious CSU Award for Excellence

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The California State University (CSU) will honor four faculty and one staff member with the Wang Family Excellence Awards for their extraordinary commitment to student achievement and exemplary contributions in their fields. As part of their recognition, honorees will each receive a $20,000 award which are established through a gift from CSU Trustee Emeritus Stanley T. Wang and administered through the CSU Foundation. The honorees will be recognized on Tuesday, January 31, at a regularly scheduled meeting of the CSU Board of Trustees.

“The CSU community is proud of our faculty and staff whose work makes a lasting difference in the lives of our students,” said Chancellor Timothy P. White. …

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Professors Jennifer Switkes, Winnie Dong, and Richard Willson, the 2014-15 Provost's Awards for Excellence winners, will be the keynote speakers at the Provost's Awards Symposium March 2.

Provost’s Award Winners to Be Keynote Speakers at March 2 Symposium

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The trio of professors who were honored with the 2014-15 Provost’s Awards for Excellence will be the keynote speakers at the Provost’s Awards Symposium on Wednesday, March 2.

A reception for the Provost’s Awards winners will start 3 p.m. in the Bronco Student Center’s Ursa Major suite. The symposium featuring the professors will run from 3:30 to 5 p.m.

Math Professor Jennifer Switkes earned the Excellence in Teaching award. She abides by five values in teaching: “excellence, honor, integrity, love and purpose.” Her service extends beyond Cal Poly Pomona. For one semester, she taught a class on differential equations to students at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda.

Winny Dong, …

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Nomination Period for 2016 Provost’s Awards Opens Jan. 12

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To honor accomplishments by faculty, nominations will be accepted starting Jan. 12 for the 2016 Provost’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching, Scholarly and Creative Activities, and Service.

The awards are open to all faculty members, librarians, counselors, and coaches who have been with Cal Poly Pomona for at least five years and demonstrate a sustained level of achievement in the area of the award. An individual is eligible to receive the award in each area only once.

Because the awards honor achievement, a nominee’s history of accomplishments will be considered in one of these three principal areas:

  • Teaching: Proven performance in the classroom, innovative teaching methods and student improvement
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Professors Jennifer Switkes, Winny Dong and Richard Willson will receive the 2015 Provost’s Awards for Excellence.

Standout Professors Receive 2015 Provost’s Awards for Excellence

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Professors Jennifer Switkes, Winny Dong and Richard Willson will receive the 2015 Provost’s Awards for Excellence.

The awards honor the faculty members’ efforts in teaching, service, and scholarly and creative activities, respectively. They will be honored at their respective college commencement ceremonies in June and will present at a symposium during winter quarter 2016.

“These faculty have dedicated their careers to their students and their disciplines and have very clearly earned recognition,” says Provost Marten denBoer. “All of them have made major contributions to the university and done truly innovative work. We are proud to have them as faculty at Cal Poly Pomona.”

Excellence in Teaching

Math Professor Jennifer …

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Angel Valdes, Alison Baker and Daniel Hostetler

Baker, Hostetler, Valdes to be Honored by Provost at Symposium

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Three faculty members will receive honors Thursday, Feb. 19, at the Provost’s Awards for Excellence Symposium.

Professors Alison Baker, Dan Hostetler and Angel Valdes were chosen for the 2014 Provost’s Awards for Excellence.

Baker teaches medieval literature in the Department of English & Foreign Languages and is the recipient of the Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.

A plant sciences professor, Hostetler is the recipient for the Provost’s Award for Excellence in Service.

Valdes is an associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and the winner of the Provost’s Award for Excellence in Scholarly and Creative Activities.

Each will make a presentation at the symposium, which will be …

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President’s Video Update for May 19

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Commencement, the ASI elections, and awards top President Ortiz’s video update this week.

During Commencement next month, the university will recognize valedictorians and McPhee Scholars in each college, and present three Provost’s Award Winners and two honorary doctorates.

The three Provost’s Award Winners are:

  • English and Foreign Languages Professor Alison Baker (Excellence in Teaching)
  • Plant Sciences Professor Dan Hostetler (Excellence in Service)
  • Biological Sciences Professor Angel Valdes (Excellence in Scholarly and Creative Activities).

Alumnus and entrepreneur Ron Gregoire will receive an honorary doctorate from the College of Business Administration. The College of Engineering will honor Eddy Hartenstein, alumnus, newspaper executive and communications pioneer.

ASI held elections for its 2014-15 …

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President's Video Update for Oct. 8

President’s Video Update for Oct. 8

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President Ortiz shares news of the CSU Board of Trustees naming Tim White as the next chancellor to lead the system. White has grown up in California public universities, from community college to CSU to the UC system.

“Tim embodies many of our values. He is a teacher-scholar, values diversity, and embraces the importance of environmental issues,” Ortiz says in his Monday video message. “He is known around the world for his work in muscle plasticity, injury, and aging,”…

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