Distinguished Teaching Award

Award Recipient

The Michigan Section of the MAA's Distinguished Teaching Award Committee is pleased to announce Dr. Grace McClurkin of Saginaw Valley State University as the recipient of the 2025 Distinguished Teaching Award. Dr. McClurkin has made exceptional contributions to mathematics education, particularly for high-need students in developmental and general education courses. She has spearheaded the revamping of developmental courses at SVSU from every angle, from implementing active learning, faculty development, increasing accessibility and affordability, to adding a human element and career readiness.

Award Nominations

Nominations are being solicited for the annual MAA Michigan Section Distinguished Teaching Award. The Distinguished Teaching Award Committee strongly urges departments or individuals to nominate deserving faculty for this award. We recognize that there are many outstanding teachers in the section, but we can consider only those who are nominated. The committee particularly welcomes nominations of individuals from groups (or type of institutions) that have historically been under-represented in mathematics or in the list of previous recipients of the award on the Section's history webpage.

Please send an electronic copy of the completed nomination form, which is available at the Section's website, to Abe Edwards <aedwards@msu.edu>. The awards committee will accept nominations until January 31, 2026. Please use "Michigan DTA Nomination" in the subject line. The Distinguished Teaching Award recognizes outstanding teaching and is presented at the annual meeting of the Michigan Section. The recipient of this award will also, upon receipt of additional supporting material, become the Michigan section nominee for the national MAA Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics. Current and past recipients of the Distinguished Teaching Award are listed on the Section's history webpage. Anyone may make a nomination (of someone else; self-nomination is not permitted), but nominations from chairs in departments of mathematical sciences are especially solicited. To be eligible for the award, a nominee must:

• Be a college or university teacher who currently teaches a mathematical science at least half-time
• during the academic year in a public or private college or university (from two-year college teaching
• through teaching at the PhD level) in Michigan. Those on approved leave (sabbatical or otherwise) during the academic year in which they are nominated qualify if they fulfilled the requirements in the previous year.
• Have at least seven years experience in teaching the mathematical sciences.
• Have had teaching effectiveness that can be documented.
• Have had influence in their teaching beyond their own institution.
• Foster curiosity and generate excitement about mathematics in their students.
• Be a member of the Michigan MAA section (i.e. members of the MAA with a Michigan mailing addresses or members of the section by choice).

Distinguished Service Award

Recipient

The Michigan Section of the MAA's Distinguished Service Award Committee is pleased to announce Dr. Stephanie Edwards of Hope College as the recipient of the 2025 Distinguished Service Award. Dr. Edwards has been an active and integral part of the mathematics community at the local, state, and national level for years. As just a sampling of her service, she regularly takes students to national meetings and Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics. At the state level she has served the section as MMPC director, webmaster, and local arrangements chair for the Hope section meeting. At the national level Stephanie served as an Associate Editor of Mathematics Magazine.

Nominations

Nominations are being solicited for the annual MAA Michigan Section Distinguished Service Award. Nominations should include the nominee's service in their home department as well as service to the section, and any service performed for national mathematics organizations or for the promotion of mathematics in a local community. Nominees must be a member of the Michigan MAA section (i.e. members of the MAA with a Michigan mailing addresses or members of the section by choice).

Please send nominations to Amy Shell-Gellasch <ashellge@emich.edu>. The awards committee will accept nominations until January 31, 2026. Please use "Michigan DSA Nomination" in the subject line. The Distinguished Service Award recognizes service to the Section and is presented at the annual meeting of the Michigan Section. Current and past recipients of the Distinguished Service Award are listed on the Section's history webpage.

Certificate of Meritorious Service

The Certificate of Meritorious Service recognizes service at the national and section level and is presented once every five years at the annual meetings of the Michigan Section. Current and past recipients of the Certificate of Meritorious Service are listed on the Section's history webpage.

Ron Mosier Memorial Award for Student Presentations

This award is presented to the student (or students) with the most outstanding talk at the annual meeting of the MAA Michigan Section. Ron Mosier was a mathematician whose contributions to the subject spanned both pure and applied areas, from linear lattices to camshaft design. He loved mathematics, and he always was ready to listen, talk, or discuss any topic related to it. He was a regular attendee at the annual meeting, and one of the things he most enjoyed was the student talks. To honor Ron's memory, the Michigan Section instituted this prize in his name. Current and past recipients of the Ron Mosier Memorial Award are listed on the Section's history webpage.