Five UC Berkeley faculty have been selected as recipients of the 2025 Distinguished Teaching Award, the campus’s most prestigious honor for teaching. The award recognizes teaching that incites intellectual curiosity in students, engages them thoroughly in the enterprise of learning, and has a lifelong impact. The Academic Senate’s Committee on Teaching has selected:
- Helen Bateup, Associate Professor, Neuroscience
- Dan Garcia, Teaching Professor, Computer Science
- Kranthi Mandadapu, Associate Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Mark Sandberg, Professor, Scandinavian and Film and Media
- Sarah Stanley, Associate Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
The extraordinary expertise, curiosity, inclusiveness, and passion of this year’s recipients remind us that excellent teaching runs both deep and broad across Berkeley’s academic landscape.
The campus community is invited to celebrate these recipients at a public ceremony in the West Pauley Ballroom, MLK Student Center on Wednesday, April 23, 2025, 5:30 - 7:00 pm, followed by an open reception.