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  • Richard Hovannisian Receives UCLA Honors Award

    PRESS RELEASE
    UCLA Department of History
    Tel: 310-825-3375


    Attached photograph: Vice Provost Patricia Turner and Professor
    Richard Hovannisian
    Courtesy of Beverly Yanuaria


    RICHARD HOVANNISIAN RECEIVES UCLA HONORS COLLEGIUM DISTINGUISHED TEACHING
    AWARD


    UCLA-On May 23, Professor Richard Hovannisian was named the recipient
    of the UCLA Eugen Weber Honors Program Distinguished Teaching Award
    for his years of service to the honors division. He has been singled
    out for his motivational teaching, especially of the Honors
    Comparative Genocide colloquium, which has steadily won the praise of
    students, who attest that the course has deeply influenced them to
    strive for human rights and the prevention of the crime of genocide.

    The Rose Gilbert Honors Spring Tea was opened by Vice Provost for
    Undergraduate Education, Patricia A. Turner, who spoke of the
    excellence of teaching and student scholarship at UCLA. Assistant Vice
    Provost for Honors, G. Jennifer Wilson, then lauded Professor
    Hovannisian for his inspirational work, reading three examples of the
    student evaluations that described the instructor and the course in
    superlative terms. She invited Hovannisian to the podium to receive
    his award. In thanking the Honors Program, the professor reflected on
    the role of the late UCLA Dean of Social Sciences Eugen Weber, a world
    renowned historian of Western Civilization, and of Mrs. Rose Gilbert,
    an outstanding teacher of English at Palisades High School, where she
    helped develop the writing skills of Raffi, Armen, and Ani Hovannisian
    and then to the next generation through Raffi's son Garin. Rose
    Gilbert, who was present at the awards ceremony and continued to teach
    into her nineties, is a major benefactor of the scholarship programs
    at UCLA.

    Although Richard Hovannisian is now an emeritus faculty member at
    UCLA, he is recalled annually to interact with bright, motivated
    students in the comparative study of genocide, with the Armenian
    Genocide being one of the major subjects.

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