04/23/2025
By Joseph Hartman

I’m pleased to share the names of the 2025 recipients of the Department Teaching Awards, recognized by both faculty colleagues and students for their exceptional contributions to teaching. We are deeply grateful for these 46 faculty members’ dedication to excellence in instruction and their role in advancing UMass Lowell’s academic mission.

These honorees will be formally recognized at the Faculty Symposium during the 2025–2026 academic year.

Please join me in celebrating the accomplishments of our outstanding educators!


Kennedy College of Sciences

  • Biological Sciences
    Rick Hochberg
    Sandhya Royan
  • Chemistry
    Khalilah Reddie
    Pengyuan Liu
  • Miner School of Computer & Information Sciences
    Samantha Reig
    Johannes Weis
  • Environmental, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
    Joy Winbourne
  • Mathematics & Statistics
    Thao Tran
    Shiwen Zhang
  • Physics & Applied Physics
    Romy Guthier
    Hugo Ribeiro

College of Fine Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

  • Art & Design
    Ian Sexton
  • School of Criminology & Justice Studies
    Angela Callahan
    Joshua Long
  • Economics
    Monica Galizzi
  • English
    Diana Archibald
    Milena Gueorguieva
  • History
    Christoph Strobel
  • Music
    Christopher Lee
  • Philosophy
    James Garrison
  • Political Science
    Emma Rodman
  • Psychology
    Joseph Gonzales
    Rebecca Markovits
  • Sociology
    Fanhao Nie
  • World Languages & Cultures
    Oscar Ruiz-Hernandez
  • School of Education
    Minjeong Kim
    Christine Leider

Manning School of Business

  • Accounting
    Laura Christianson
  • Finance
    Saira Latif
  • Management
    Jose Godinez
  • Marketing, Entrepreneurship & Innovation
    Mark Yi-Cheon Yim
  • Operations & Information Systems
    Belleh Fontem

Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences

  • Biomedical & Nutritional Sciences
    Mahdi Garelnabi
    Karen Hammerstone
  • Solomont School of Nursing
    Patricia MacCulloch
    Maryum Zaidi
  • Physical Therapy & Kinesiology
    Michele Fox
  • Public Health
    Dan Berlowitz

Francis College of Engineering

  • Biomedical Engineering
    Bryan Black
  • Chemical & Energy Engineering
    Dongming Xie
  • Civil & Environmental Engineering
    Xiaoqi (Jackie) Zhang
  • Electrical & Computer Engineering
    Michael Geiger
    Vinod Vokkarane
  • Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
    Alireza Amirkhizi
    Kari White
  • Plastics Engineering
    Anne Soucy