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Urban Planning Professor Receives Distinguished Teaching Prize in Asian American Studies
Posted on June 03, 2009
Professor Lois Takahashi of the Department of Urban Planning is the recipient of one of two C. Doris and Toshio Hoshide Distinguished Teaching Prizes in Asian American Studies at UCLA. The other recipient is Assistant Professor Keith Camacho of the Department of Asian American Studies.
The Hoshide Prize was established by C. Doris Hoshide '34 of Rockville, MD to annually recognize an outstanding professor in Asian American Studies. This is the first time that two faculty members were selected for the award. Both received a number of glowing assessments of their teaching, advising, and mentoring from undergraduate and graduate students.
Professor Takahashi received her BA from UC Berkeley, MS in Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University, and her PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Southern California. She teaches graduate courses in Advanced Planning Theory and History, Locational Conflict, Homelessness, Housing and Social Service Issues, and Urban Policy and Planning. She is the new Director of the University of California Asian American and Pacific Islander Multi-campus Research Program that is housed at the Asian American Studies Center. Professor Takahashi's students provided glowing reviews of her engaging teaching approach, the extraordinary commitment she makes in advising her students and guiding the development of their dissertations, and the example she sets in being a scholar engaged in real world issues and solutions.
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