Imagine that you are going from your classroom duties at Berkeley to teach for a time at another university. What's the first thing you do? Why, train those new students to think like Berkeley students, of course. At least, that's what you do if you're one of this year's recipients of UC Berkeley's 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 for 1999 are Anil K. Chopra, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Richard Muller, Physics, Oliver M. O'Reilly, Mechanical Engineering, and John R. Searle, Philosophy. The recipients of the Distinguished Teaching Award will be honored at a ceremony on Thursday. April 22 at 5 pm in Zellerbach Playhouse. Also honored will be the recipients of the Presidential Chair in Undergraduate Education and the Educational Initiatives Award. The ceremony features remarks by Berkeley Chancellor Robert Berdahl, Academic Senate Chair Robert Brentano, 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.
Anil K. Chopra
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Richard Muller
Physics
Oliver M. O'Reilly
Mechanical Engineering
John R. Searle
Philosophy