Professor Jonathan Kao awarded the 2025 UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award

Associate Professor Jonathan Kao has received the 2025 Distinguished Teaching Award, UCLA’s highest recognition for teaching excellence and honors recipients. Awardees are chosen based on a range of criteria such as student success examples or metrics, feedback on the student experience, innovative teaching and curricular methods, instructor efforts to foster a learning environment where all students can thrive, and support for community outreach and mentoring activities. The awards honor deserving instructors for their creativity in the classroom, dedication to helping students thrive, and commitment to continually improving the educational experience for students. Kao is one of 6 senate faculty who have received the award this year.