May 2, 2019 | UHCL Staff
Lecturer of Literature and the First-Year Experience Wanalee O. Romero was selected as University of Houston-Clear Lake’s 2018-19 nominee for the prestigious Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation’s Piper Professor Award. University administrators recognized UHCL finalists and the nominee for the state award during a special luncheon.
Since 1958, the Piper Foundation has recognized outstanding professors throughout Texas for their work in and outside the classroom. UHCL finalists are nominated by students and faculty. From the finalists, a panel of students and faculty, equally divided between the UHCL’s four colleges, chooses the university’s nominee. The Piper Foundation, through a statewide selection committee, chooses 10 professors for the award. Romero was chosen as UHCL’s nominee from a field that included five other finalists.
Pictured are Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Steven J. Berberich; Assistant Professor of Art and Design Clay Leonard; adjunct Instructor Catherine Gaines; Piper nominee Romero; Assistant Professor of Computer Science Khondker Hasan; Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities Dorothea Lerman; and interim Vice President for Student Affairs Daniel M. Maxwell. Not pictured is Piper finalist Associate Professor of Humanities Shreerekha Subramanian.
