Walter Alvarez awarded the Donald Sterling Noyce Prize at UC Berkeley May 18 2011

Professor Walter Alvarez is the 2011 recipient of the Donald Sterling Noyce Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

Professor Alvarez was presented with the medal at the 2011 Earth and Planetary Science commencement ceremony at the University of California, Berkeley.

The Donald Sterling Noyce Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching is given annually to a faculty member in the physical sciences who has demonstrated excellence in undergraduate teaching, including curriculum development.

Professor Alvarez is currently engaged in teaching Big History, a course dubbed "The History of Everything." Big History is the attempt to understand, in a unified, interdisciplinary way, the history of Cosmos, Earth, Life, and Humanity.

To support this new field, Professor Alvarez is currently building ChronoZoom in collaboration with Microsoft Research, a timeline that shows all of the past from the Big Bang 13.7 million years ago to the Present.

The ChronoZoom timeline project can be viewed here:
http://www.ChronoZoomProject.com

Past recipients:
1987 Donald Noyce, Chemistry
1988 Howard Shugart, Physics
1989 George Pimentel, Chemistry
1990 Richard Packard, Physics
1991 Alexei Filippenko, Astronomy
1992 Alexander Pines, Chemistry
1993 Clayton Radke, Chem Engineering
1994 David Cudaback, Astronomy
1995 James Sethian, Mathematics
1996 Angelica Stacy, Chemistry
1997 Ole Hald, Mathematics
1998 Jeffrey Reimer, Chemical Engineering
1999 George Brimhall, Geology & Geophysics
2000 L. Craig Evans, Mathematics
2001 Carolyn Bertozzi, Chemistry
2002 Carl Heiles, Astronomy
2003 Robert Jacobsen, Physics
2004 Marina Ratner, Mathematics
2005 Enrique Iglesia, Chemical Engineering
2006 Matthew Francis , Chemistry
2007 James Graham, Astronomy
2008 Richard Allen, Earth & Planetary Science
2009 Richard A. Muller, Physics

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