Five members of the UC Berkeley faculty have been selected as recipients of the 2015 Distinguished Teaching Award. This is the campus’s most prestigious honor for teaching. The recipients will be honored at a ceremony on April 21, in the Zellerbach Playhouse.The award recognizes teaching that incites intellectual curiosity in students, engages them thoroughly in the enterprise of learning and has a lifelong impact.
The Distinguished Teaching Award is was created to recognize individual faculty for performance of excellence in teaching. The recipients of the award incite intellectual curiosity in students, inspires departmental colleagues and makes students aware of significant relationship between the academy and the world at large. All members of the Academic Senate and non-Senate faculty/instructors with continuing appointments are eligible.
Distinguished teachers excel in the areas of effective design and redesign of courses, ability to engage and inspire in students independent and original thinking, enthusiasm and vitality in learning and teaching, active involvement in and guidance of student research projects, both undergraduate and graduate, advising students with personal attention and care and mentorship and supervision of Graduate Student Instructors (GSIs) that facilitates effective teaching.
The award is given through the Center for Teaching and Learning. The center works to enrich, promote and support teaching and learning effectiveness. To achieve this goal, the center works with senate and non-senate faculty, departments, and co-curricular units to advance best practices in all aspects of curriculum, instruction, and assessment and helps improve the quality of education, provides expertise and builds collective knowledge in teaching and learning.
The 2015 recipients of The Distinguished Teaching Award are:
- Kathleen Donegan, Department of English
- Daniel Feldman, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology
- Ulrike Malmendier, Department of Economics and Haas School of Business
- Francine Masiello, Departments of Comparative Literature and Spanish & Portuguese
- Lev Michael, Department of Linguistics