A dead frog in a writing class; students happily tied up in "Socratic knots"; a cucumber in the business school. The common thread? These are all components of the teaching of this year's recipients of the UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award.
The award, given annually by the Committee on Teaching of the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate since 1959, recognizes excellence in teaching at the University of California, Berkeley.
The recipients of the Distinguished Teaching Award will be honored at a ceremony on Tuesday, April 28 at 5 pm in Zellerbach Playhouse. Also honored will be the recipient of the Presidential Chair in Undergraduate Education. The ceremony features remarks by Berkeley Chancellor Robert Berdahl, Vice Chancellor and Provost Carol Christ, Academic Senate Chair William Oldham, and Alumni Association President Irene Miura. The public is invited to the ceremony and the reception that follows in the Toll Room of the Alumni House.
Jesse H. Choper
School of Law
Anne Haas Dyson
Graduate School of Education
Donald M. Friedman
English
Patricia Jane (Jones) Hammons
College Writing Programs
Richard K. Lyons
Haas School of Business