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Faculty Spotlight: Prof. Brian Dill Receives LAS Dean’s Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
Brian Dill is a professor in the Department of Sociology. He is known for sustained excellence, innovative teaching, and fostering diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. “I have watched Professor Dill transform what I thought would be boring lecture material into a vibrant and engaged lecture. He seems to have a gift for connecting students to new information in diverse ways so as to ‘cover all the bases’ and engage students who possess different learning styles,” wrote Reuben May, head of the Department of Sociology....
Publication Spotlight: Our three students, Fatou Jobe, Nehal Elmeligy, & Mahbubeh Moqadam, won all the WGGP fellowships this year!
Fatou was awarded the The Barbara A.Yates International Fellowship, from the Women and Gender in Global Perspective's Program. The Fellowship is designed to support policy-oriented research on socioeconomic issues related to women and gender in developing countries. The Fellowship is for the academic year and will include a stipend up to $18,000 (starting 2024-2025) and tuition and fee waiver. Nehal was awarded the The Evelyne Accad and Paul Vieille International Research Award, awarded to graduate students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-...