 June Morita
Distinguished Teaching Award
Department: Senior Lecturer, Statistics and Management Science,
School of
Business Administration; 14 years at UW.
Courses Taught: Basic Statistics, Introduction to Probability
& Statistical Inference, Statistics for Social Scientists, Probability
& Statistics for Engineers and Science, Introduction to Data Analysis,
Introduction to Mathematical Statistics, Teaching Statistics to Kids, Introduction
to Statistical Methods.
Achievements: Besides excelling as a teacher of undergraduate
and graduate statistics courses, she has been routinely praised for her
work teaching in the M.B.A. and Executive M.B.A. programs. She also spends
a lot of time on outreach, volunteering to teach math lessons and advise
teachers at Seattle elementary schools. She organized a statewide quantitative
literacy training program for elementary school teachers, and was twice
chosen the Business Professor of the Quarter. She was named "outstanding
faculty" in the 1997 Businessweek Guide to Best Business Schools.
Quote: "June is one of those rare individuals who can be
classified as a 'teacher's teacher.' She has demonstrated a continuous dedication
to improving her own teaching as well as the teaching of her colleagues
and K-12 teachers."--Management Sciences Chair Ted Klastorin
Biography: A.B., Mathematics and Anthropology, Cal-Berkeley, 1976;
M.A., Statistics, Cal-Berkeley, 1978; Ph.D., Statistics, Cal-Berkeley, 1984. |
