CEHD Celebrates Award-Winning Faculty and Teaching Assistants

By CEHD Staff

Apr. 17, 2026

The College of Education and Human Development is proud to recognize faculty and teaching assistants whose exceptional contributions to teaching, research and service were honored with this year’s CEHD Awards. The recipients were celebrated at the April 15 Collegewide Meeting and include:

Maria Aguilar Walls
Teaching Assistant Award: Awarded to a CEHD graduate teaching assistant who motivates, inspires and supports students, and who exemplifies one or more of the six teaching standards of the college.

Mawule Sevon
Adjunct Award: Awarded to a CEHD adjunct faculty member who motivates, inspires and supports students, and who exemplifies one or more of the six teaching standards of the college.

Linn Posey-Maddox
Undergraduate Teaching Award: Awarded to a CEHD undergraduate professor who motivates, inspires and supports students, and who exemplifies one or more of the six teaching standards of the college.

Armando X. Estrada
Graduate Teaching Award: Awarded to a CEHD graduate professor who motivates, inspires and supports students, and who exemplifies one or more of the six teaching standards of the college.

Lindsay Metzker-Epstein
Owlie Award: Awarded to a CEHD faculty member (full-time or part-time) or teaching assistant who takes the opportunity to try an innovative teaching method in one of their courses to achieve a course goal they could not easily meet through other means. This award is for taking a risk in teaching that might not otherwise be recognized. Note that this innovative teaching method that took the instructor or teaching assistant out of their “comfort zone” does not have to be focused on technology, although it certainly can be.

Judith C. Stull and Jodi Levine-Laufgraben
Advising Award: Awarded to CEHD faculty only and applies to those cases in which a student or students feel they received notable advising or mentoring at the undergraduate or graduate level.