UCSB’s Academic Senate presented their 2006-07 awards to outstanding teachers, mentors, and teaching assistants on May 10 in the UCen Harbor Room. They were (standing, from left) outstanding graduate mentors Amr El Abbadi, Hal Drake, Mary Bucholtz, and, accepting the Graduate Division’s Departmental Mentorship Award, linguistics Chair Patricia Clancy; distinguished teaching awardees were Jeffrey Hanson, Cynthia Stohl, Steve Butner, Marianne Mithun, and Kevin Almeroth; and (seated, from left) outstanding teaching assistants were Erin Tolhurst Dunkle, Ingrid Page, and Cheyla Samuelson. Not present for the photo were teaching awardee Stanley Klein and TA awardee Joseph Campo.

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