The campus provides a distinctive environment in which faculty and students seek to expand fundamental knowledge of human nature, society, and the natural world. Every year, the Berkeley campus honors several of its outstanding faculty members by presenting them with the Distinguished Teaching Award. Such recognition serves to remind us of the importance of teaching and the value we place on it. Students who attend Berkeley have the benefit of learning from world-renowned theorists and researchers who are often distinguished teachers as well. Recipients of past awards have pointed out that their research is often enhanced by the questions and responses of their students in the classroom, while at the same time, the excitement of generating new ideas and discoveries in research stimulates them to become better teachers.
Good teachers do more than convey knowledge in a field.
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