Department of Spanish and Portuguese

It is an honor to announce that Professors Olimpia Rosenthal, Deborah Cohn, Alejandro Mejias-Lopez, Steve Wagschal, Cesar Felix-Brasfeder, Erik Willis, Israel F. Herrera and graduate students Mark Fitzsimmons, Guillermo Lopez-Prieto, Daniel Runnels have been selected as recipients of the 2022 MIND (Motivación, Inspiración, Dedicación) Award for Impactful and MIND-Blowing Teaching. Senior year Spanish majors who are members of the IUB Chapter Alpha Alpha Phi Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi (National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society) select professors and graduate students who have been impactful teachers during their IU career. Their comments spoke to the awarded teachers' strong motivation, inspiration, and dedication to students.