2022 Distinguished Service Award
Awarded to Sharmila Majumdar, PhD
The Academic Senate is pleased to announce the selection of Sharmila Majumdar, PhD as recipient of the 2022 UCSF Academic Senate Distinguished Service Award for her commitment to the Academic Senate of UCSF and reflects her colleagues’ high regard for her long and illustrious history of service to the Senate. Professor Majumdar's advocacy for compassionate policies during the COVID-19 crisis, the establishment of the ongoing COVID Faculty Support Committee, keeping faculty careers on track through holistic career reviews, and bridge building efforts in the controversial and critical area of Comprehensive Access to care, all demonstrate her leadership as being substantive and transformative.
The UCSF Academic Senate Distinguished Service Award is given out to one member of the UCSF Senate faculty at the Associate or Full Professor level who has demonstrated outstanding and creative services with a lasting and significant impact on the excellence of shared governance at UCSF, exceptional abilities in collaborating with the university’s many diverse stakeholders, and a sustained excellence and promise in serving the UCSF Academic Senate. This award carries a small honorarium of $1,500 from the UCSF Academic Senate’s Chancellors Fund and is presented at the last Division meeting of the academic year as recognition of service to the UCSF academic community. Click here for more information about the nomination process.