The LAS Awards Committee selected our own Melanie Waters for the prestigious and highly competitive LAS Academic Professional Award.  This award honors selected academic professionals for their outstanding contributions to the college.

In her capacity first as Assistant Director of the Spanish Basic Language Program from 1994 to 2008,  and later as Director of Introductory Spanish from 2008 to the present, Melanie has contributed greatly to advance the mission of our Department, College and Campus by fulfilling responsibilities for the administration of Elementary and Intermediate courses in our Basic Spanish Language program in addition to designing curriculum for the hybrid program and serving approximately 40 sections, 14 graduate teaching assistants and 800 undergraduate students per semester, among many other tasks. Congrats Melanie!