Local News in Brief : 5 Selected for CSUN Teaching Awards

Five professors at California State University, Northridge, have been selected to receive 1986 Distinguished Teaching Awards, the highest teaching honor bestowed by CSUN on its faculty members.

Instructors are nominated for the award by other faculty members or students, and the winners are selected by the faculty senate. Those chosen:

--Thomas Bader, a history professor, a CSUN faculty member since 1964 and a specialist in Latin America.

--Jose Hernandez, an urban studies professor who has taught at CSUN since 1983 and who helped found the school’s Chicano studies department.

--Bonnie Karlin, an assistant professor of child development since 1979, who received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from CSUN.

--John Kontogiannis, a biology professor who as taught at CSUN since 1965.

--Edward G. Pollock, a biology professor who has taught at the university since 1962.