Professor Colleen Lye Receives Honorable Mention in AAAS Excellence in Mentoring Award

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April 11, 2025

The UC Berkeley Department of English is delighted to announce that Professor Colleen Lye has received Honorable Mention for the 2025 Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) Excellence in Mentoring Award! As the AAAS award notes, "Moving testimony from many of her previous students demonstrated the extent to which Dr. Lye mentored her students’ intellectual growth and cultivated their academic passions. She demonstrates attentive care through her commitment to academic promise and rigor. We are delighted to recognize Dr. Lye for her fantastic contributions to the mentorship of her students."

We offer our warm congratulations to Professor Lye on this honor! 

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