teaching
February 24, 2024
Reaching and teaching
Teacher Pamela Savagaonkar saw a gap in STEM education for kids and started a venture in Snoqualmie Valley.
May 29, 2023
Distinguished Teaching Legacy Award
John C. Berg was named the recipient of the UW’s 2023 Distinguished Teaching Legacy Award.
December 4, 2021
Closing the distance
For a teacher in a time of COVID-19, the challenge is to bring the world to students.
June 21, 2021
Professors nonpareil
One year into remote learning, these seven distinguished scholars kept class as fresh and relevant as ever. Find a seat and meet your 2021 Distinguished Teachers of the Year.
June 10, 2021
Bridging the distance
UW faculty members used innovative approaches to teaching hands-on courses during the pandemic.
June 4, 2021
Humanity and impact
Anthony Ishisaka’s impact on legions of University of Washington students as well as all of Western Washington shines as bright as ever.
March 9, 2021
Standing tall
He went from the UW to professional basketball and back. But it’s in the special education classroom that Anthony Washington, ’16, ’19, is making a lasting difference.
June 11, 2020
Screen gems
Sheltering in place against the novel coronavirus prevented us from photographing our Teachers of the Year as we always do—in person. So we captured them the way students saw them during spring quarter.
June 3, 2019
House Party
We partied like students with the winners of the 2019 Distinguished Teaching Awards.
June 1, 2000
Top teacher
Wendy L. Hill, who is on the faculty of Lafayette College, was named Pennsylvania's 1999 Professor of the Year.
March 1, 2000
K-12 institute leader
Rudy Crew, former chancellor of New York public schools, became executive director of the University of Washington's new Institute for K-12 Leadership.
June 1, 1999
Top teachers of ‘99
The University of Washington is honoring its best teachers, staff members and volunteers in an expanded awards program for 1999.
‘My favorite teacher’
Nine writers recall how their classroom experiences helped mold their careers.
June 1, 1998
Best of 1998
The UW is honoring the best teachers, staff members and volunteers in an expanded awards program for 1998.
March 1, 1997
John Morefield, making a difference in children’s education
John Morefield is taking his work to a higher pulpit as an elementary district coordinator for Seattle schools.
September 1, 1996
Class gives business students a taste of Wall Street
The Business School places some of its students in their own real world laboratory—Wall Street
September 1, 1995
25 years of Distinguished Teaching Award winners
On the silver anniversary of the Distinguished Teaching Awards, we are taking a look at what all our "Oscar-winners" are doing today.
June 1, 1995
Best of 1995
Faculty, students and alumni met to decide whom to add to the list of top UW teachers, public servants and volunteers.
June 1, 1994
The best of 1994
Faculty, students and alumni met to decide who are the best teachers, public servants and volunteers of the year.
March 1, 1993
A matter of degrees
Overhauling undergraduate education won't be easy, but the UW has already made an important start.
December 1, 1992
The odd couple
Public schools and colleges of education have to team up to improve things for students. Can this odd couple make it together?
June 1, 1991
The best of 1991
Traditionally, June is the month when the UW and its alumni association announce the winners of the annual teaching and public service awards.
March 1, 1991
Funding boost
When UW undergraduates settled into their seats last October, they got the "new, improved" versions of some entry-level courses.