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With the gift, the center can innovate new programs and help more members of the University’s teaching community “become the teachers they want to be.”

CTE Director Michael Palmer works to help faculty design deeply memorable moments in class through an activity called “the dream exercise.”

This year’s award-winning teachers act as intellectual travel guides, enabling students to take important steps on their individual journeys of self-discovery and academic success.

UVA faculty members in STEM disciplines will have the opportunity to enlist more support for using active-learning methods in their large introductory classes–with the help of undergraduate students.

The outstanding teachers in this group of 13 professors at various points in their careers, plus a medical resident and five graduate teaching assistants, not only share important life lessons, they impart wisdom.

Now in his 47th academic year as a faculty member at the University of Virginia, Ken Elzinga is showing no signs of slowing down.