Castañeda given President’s Public Service Award
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Mari Castañeda, associate professor of Communication, is one of five University system faculty members awarded a President’s Public Service Award on Nov. 19.
The awards are given annually to faculty members who have been nominated by the chancellors of their respective campuses for providing exemplary service to the Commonwealth.
Castañeda was recognized for her role in the development of University-community partnerships that benefit the growing Latino community of Holyoke in areas of education, economic development and housing. She was recognized as “an ardent and energetic advocate whose work with the Community Outreach Partnership Center (COPC) and Student Bridges demonstrates the strength of her commitment to building reciprocal relationships that dovetail with her work in media, cultural production, policy and pedagogy.”
The awards were presented by President Jack M. Wilson and Robert J. Manning, chairman of the Board of Trustees, at a luncheon at the University of Massachusetts Club in Boston.
“The recipients of this award carry on a tradition of service that dates back to our University’s earliest days,” said Wilson. “Service to the Commonwealth and its communities has always been a central part of our mission.”
“This year’s award winners and their campus colleagues are tremendous examples of academic excellence and service, both of which are crucial to our mission as a public research university,” said manning. “Without the exceptional work and dedication of our faculty members, providing our students with a world-class education would not be possible.”
The other recipients of the Public Service Awards were David Terkla, professor in the Economics Department and the Department of Environmental, Earth, and Ocean Sciences at Boston; Matthew Roy, assistant provost and director of the Center for Civic Engagement at the School of Education, Public Policy and Civic Engagement at Dartmouth; Kay Doyle, professor, program director and chair of the Department of Clinical Laboratory and Nutritional Sciences at Lowell, and Linda Sagor, associate professor of Clinical Pediatrics and division director of General Pediatrics at the Medical School in Worcester.
Since the awards were created in 1998, 76 faculty have been recognized.
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