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Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Teaching

Teaching Medal Award Winner

Sai Bhatawedekar, headshot

Sai Bhatawedekar
Manoa

Sai Bhatawedekar is an assistant professor of Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures at UH Manoa.

She states that she and her students transform the classroom into a “dynamic, vibrant, hilarious and stimulating learning environment that brings out the best in all of them.” Colleagues who have observed her classes say that they have been inspired by her teaching practices.

Bhatawedekar’s forthcoming publication as a Hindi text and workbook with CD-DVDs will benefit language programs nationally that struggle with inadequate and outdated books. The depth and breadth of her extensive, eclectic research has significantly and profoundly impacted her teaching.

One student defines her own career path as only a dream previous to Bhatawedekar’s influence on her, saying “her influence on student success advances the academic community of the university in cultivating new expectations for those born and raised in Hawai‘i.”

The Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Teaching is awarded by the Board of Regents as tribute to faculty members who exhibit an extraordinary level of subject mastery and scholarship, teaching effectiveness and creativity and personal values that benefit students. The board also awards the Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Research.

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Current awardees and links to archives.

2013

Loni Delaplane, headshot
Loni Delaplane
Kaua‘i
Wendy Kuntz, headshot
Wendy Kuntz
Kapi‘olani
Susan Lum, headshot
Susan Lum
Leeward