PROFESSOR USES TECHNOLOGY TO TEACH HISTORY

Robert Buzzanco, associate professor of history, teaches far beyond the classroom.

Since 1999, Buzzanco has taught thousands of students through broadcast, DVD and online. His classes — “Vietnam War” and “War, Globalization and Terror”— have become so popular and effective that he received the Distance Education Teaching Excellence Award.

“Bob possesses not merely a rare talent, but a very real gift

Photo by Thomas Shea

for teaching . . . Bob Buzzanco has used that gift to bridge the gap that often separates student and instructor in these types of distance education courses,” wrote one nominator.

The award honors outstanding faculty teaching a course via distance learning technologies. It carries a $5,000 prize and a trophy.

Francine Parker
Staff writer