{"id":5103,"date":"2026-03-31T00:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/?p=5103"},"modified":"2026-03-31T00:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:37:18","slug":"excellence-in-teaching-lolita-perez-ayala-receives-the-frances-davis-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/excellence-in-teaching-lolita-perez-ayala-receives-the-frances-davis-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Excellence in Teaching: Lolita P\u00e8rez-Ayala Receives the Frances Davis Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are proud to share that CIS Ph.D. candidate Lolita P\u00e8rez-Ayala has been selected as this year\u2019s recipient of the Frances Davis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for Graduate Teaching Assistants. This is a highly competitive, campus-wide honor recognizing outstanding commitment to undergraduate education.<\/p>\n<p>Lolita has been teaching in the Communication Program, where she has made a meaningful impact on her students through her dedication, care and teaching excellence. She will begin teaching in the Shidler College of Business this upcoming fall.<\/p>\n<p>Lolita will be formally recognized at the 2026 M\u0101noa Awards Ceremony, taking place on May 5, 2026, from 3 to 4 p.m. at Kennedy Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>Please join us in congratulating Lolita on this well-deserved achievement!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are proud to share that CIS Ph.D. candidate Lolita P\u00e8rez-Ayala has been selected as this year\u2019s recipient of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":5104,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-news-events","9":"post-with-thumbnail","10":"post-with-thumbnail-large"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5105,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103\/revisions\/5105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}