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Distinguished Teachers
"An engineer cannot back away from
a problem because he or she 'doesn't understand it,'"
says Ron Gronsky. "The
will to succeed drives the will to understand, which eventually,
at least in Berkeley engineering students, brings a solution."
Removing the wall between teaching and
research, Tyrone Hayes'
undergrad biology students work in the laboratory, co-author papers,
and present at professional societies.
At the Haas School of Business,
a mix of engineering and business students in Sara
Beckman's new product- development class
start with an idea and, over 15 weeks, learn how to transform
it into a prototype product.
Environmental sciences prof Stephen
Welter examines an issue and the difficult tradeoffs
involved, and then challenges students to start from a strong
ethical base in order to examine their own assumptions and decisions.
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Students say Carolyn
Bertozzi has a passion for chemistry. "My
philosophy is to recapture in each lecture the thrill I felt when
it was revealed to me that molecules are as diverse as human beings.
Some are high energy, others more complacent..."
Education Professor Glynda
Hull is a teacher's teacher. In the classroom,
Hull inspires her students to imagine how they will make their
mark on the world.
Teaching Japanese classics, H.
Mack Horton makes texts that deeply mattered to
earlier generations come alive again, allowing the past to illuminate
the path ahead in this new millennium.
Teaching film studies, says Linda
Williams, requires finding the right
tension between work and play — between disciplined
intellectual inquiry and outright sensual pleasure.
Distinguished Teaching Award winners (complete listings)
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