This is a preliminary announcement that the Distinguished Teaching Award Committee will be seeking nominations for the seventeenth annual (2008) MAA Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics. The committee will choose one of the nominees for the Michigan Section Award, and he or she will be honored at the Spring 2008 meeting of the Section. The awardee will also become the Section’s candidate for the national MAA’s Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award.

This year’s committee recently selected Eddie Cheng (OU) to receive the 2007 award. In his 11 years of teaching, Eddie has had a tremendous impact at Oakland University via his supervision of undergraduate research, as a member of the Putnam Coaching Staff, and through his central role in their Summer Mathematics Institute. He has also had a wider impact through his heavy involvement with the Section’s Visiting Lecturer Program and Michigan Mathematics Prize Competition. Further details about his award will appear in the Fall 2007 Newsletter.

Dr. Cheng joins the continuing members of the committee, Tim Carroll (EMU), chair, and Ted Sundstrom (GVSU), the previous recipients, for next year’s selection process.

Anyone, other than the candidate him/herself, is entitled to make a nomination. To be eligible, a candidate must be a college or university teacher teaching a mathematical science at least halftime during the academic year in a two- or four-year college or university, have at least five years teaching experience, and be a member of the MAA. Nominations are due by December 31, 2007. More information will be available in the Fall Newsletter. Please start thinking now about nominating your department’s best teacher.

On a related note, Past Chair John Fink (Kalamazoo C) reports that Robert Messer (Albion C) was selected to receive the Section’s 2006–2007 Distinguished Service Award. Details will appear in the Fall 2007 Newsletter.

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