Abigail Andrews has won this year’s UCSD Distinguished Teaching Award! Abigail has been a consistently outstanding teacher since she arrived at UC San Diego in 2014, with a special focus on equity, diversity, and inclusion. Her course topics concern themes of barriers and inequalities facing underrepresented minorities, particularly Latinx groups. She brings a community-engaged focus to her undergraduate courses and has mentored scores of undergraduate and graduate students in the areas of international migration, urban sociology, and field methods.
Honoring exceptional achievement in scholarship, UCSD’s Academic Senate awarded John Evans the Distinguished Research in the Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences in June 2021. For more information on Professor Evans’s work at the intersection of science and religion, see 
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Lauren Olsen received her PhD from the Department of Sociology in 2019 and is now a first-year, tenure-track Assistant Professor at Temple University. In her dissertation, “Curricular Opportunities and Constraints: The Incorporation of the Humanities and Social Sciences into Contemporary U.S. Medical Education,” Olsen draws upon in-depth interviews, non-participant observation, and curricular materials to show how medical educators integrate the humanities and social sciences into the medical curriculum. Her work contributes to debates about how medical professionals conceptualize what it means to be a good doctor, how scholars engage in interdisciplinary collaboration, and how educators’ approaches to curricular integration contribute to or challenge existing structures of inequality. Congratulations to Lauren on her many achievements!
Honors program alumnus Garrett Martin receives the 2020 first place Undergraduate Library Research Prize for strategically leveraging UC San Diego Library resources and services to produce groundbreaking research.