The Texas Section has three awards each year: the Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics Award, the Distinguished Service Award, and the Ron Barnes Distinguished Service to Students Award. The recipients will be honored at the banquet of the spring meeting. Nominations for all three of these awards are due on November 15 of the fall preceding the spring meeting where the awards will be presented. Decisions will be made by December 15, with formal announcement of winners by January 15. Below are the details of each award, past recipients, and nomination procedures.
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The selection committee for this award will be composed of the four elected directors with the Director-At-Large serving as chair. After the annual deadline, the committee will assess the pool of nominees with the goal of choosing one well-qualified recipient for the Texas Section Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics. The recipient would then be eligible to become the Section nominee to the pool from which the national recipients of the MAA Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Awards for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics will be selected. (One of the national winners may be selected from another source.) There will be at most three national recipients, each of whom will be honored at the national MAA meeting and receive a $1,000 check and a certificate.
Anyone is entitled to make a nomination. It is encouraged (but not required) for the nomination or one of the nomination statements to come from a department leader (e.g., department chair, associate chair, assistant chair, graduate or undergraduate director, dean) in the mathematical sciences who has responsibilities of faculty evaluation, or who has a good knowledge of teaching of all faculty in the department. Self-nomination is not permitted. A previous nominee for this award who did not become a section awardee may be nominated again.
The nominees should:
Nominees may also:
* "Teaching" is to be interpreted in its broadest sense, not necessarily limited to classroom teaching. It may include activities such as preparing students for mathematical competitions such as the Putnam Prize Competition or the Mathematical Contest in Modeling, or attracting students to major in a mathematical science or to pursue a graduate degree.
** "Influence beyond their own classrooms" can take many forms, including but not limited to professional development and mentoring of colleagues, demonstrated lasting impact on alumni, influence on the profession through curricular revisions in college mathematics teaching with national impact, or influential innovative books on the teaching of college mathematics.
Nominations must be submitted using our nomination form no later than November 15. The nomination packet should include:
The nomination form should be submitted by the person making the nomination, but other colleagues of the nominee may write the statements about the nominee’s classroom teaching and teaching-related activities. The nominator is responsible for submitting all of these documents in one transmission.
Nominations for someone from another Section should be sent to the Secretary of the nominee's Section.
The chair of the selection committee will communicate with the award recipient and their department leader to determine if the recipient would also like to be considered for the national Haimo Award.If the recipient of the Texas Section Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics is nominated for the Haimo Award, the chair of the selection committee and the Section Secretary will coordinate with the nominee to assemble and submit the nomination materials.
We appreciate your help in this effort to honor extraordinarily successful teaching. The MAA and the Texas Section wish to see such teaching recognized at all types of postsecondary institutions. Please nominate a deserving individual from your institution.
2024 - Cody Patterson, Texas State University
2023 - Johnny Henderson, Baylor University
2022 - Mehmet Celik, Texas A&M University - Commerce
2019 - Mark Tomforde, University of Houston
2018 - Bryant Wyatt, Tarleton State University
2017 - Neal Brand, University of North Texas
2015 - Rebecca Garcia, Sam Houston State University
2014 - Susan Staples, Texas Christian University
2013 - Harold Boas, Texas A&M University
2012 - James Epperson, University of Texas at Arlington
2011 - Roger Zarnowski, Angelo State University
2010 - Terence McCabe, Texas State University
2009 - John Davis, Baylor University
2008 - Dawn Slavens, Midwestern State University
2007 - Minerva Cordero-Epperson, University of Texas - Arlington
2006 - Stuart Anderson, Texas A&M University - Commerce
2005 - John Quintanilla, University of North Texas
2004 - Italo Simonelli, Texas A&M University - Commerce
2003 - Gregory Passty, Southwest Texas State University
2002 - William D. Clark, Stephen F. Austin State University
2001 - Robert Northcutt, Southwest Texas State University
2000 - William T. Guy, University of Texas at Austin
1999 - Max Warshauer, Southwest Texas State University
1998 - Efraim Armendariz, University of Texas at Austin
1997 - Rhonda Hatcher, Texas Christian University
1996 - Doyle Alexander, Stephen F. Austin State University
1995 - Frank Jones, Rice University
1994 - Montie Monzingo, Southern Methodist University
1993 - James R. Boone, Texas A & M University
1992 - Robert S. Doran, Texas Christian University
The Distinguished Service Award is given in recognition of faculty who have demonstrated exceptional service to the Texas Section. Nominations must be submitted using our nomination form no later than November 15.
2024 - Joseph Iaia, University of North Texas
2023 - Therese Shelton, Southwestern University
2022 - Mike Panahi, Collin College
2021 - Theresa Martinez, University of Texas at Austin
2020 - Nick Long, Stephen F. Austin State University
2019 - Brian Beavers, Stephen F. Austin State University
2018 - David Hendricks, Abilene Christian University
2017 - James Epperson, University of Texas at Arlington
2015 - Carl Seaquist, Texas Tech University
2014 - Neal Brand, University of North Texas
2013 - Hristo Kojouharov, University of Texas at Arlington
2012 - Reza Abbasian, Texas Lutheran University
2009 - John Sieben, Texas Lutheran University
2006 - Jasper Adams, Stephen F. Austin State University
2005 - Vince Schielack, Texas A&M Unviersity
2004 - Montie Monzingo, Southern Methodist University
2004 - Pat Odell, Baylor University
2001 - George Brewer, Odessa College
2001 - Wes Sanders, Sam Houston State University
2000 - Stuart Anderson, Texas A&M University-Commerce
2000 - Gertrud Kraut, University of New Hampshire
1999 - Ron Barnes, University of Houston-Downtown
1999 - William T. Guy, University of Texas
1998 - Vivian Dennis, Eastfield College
1998 - Dalton Tarwater, Texas Tech University
1997 - Howard L. Rolf, Baylor University
1996 - John Ed Allen, University of North Texas
1996 - Charles D. Robinson, Hardin-Simmons University
1995 - Dale R. Bedgood, East Texas State University
1995 - R. G. Dean, Stephen F. Austin State University
1995 - Charles R. Deeter, Texas Christian University
1995 - John F. Lamb, Jr., East Texas State University
1994 - James R. Boone, Texas A&M University
1993 - Louie Huffman, Midwestern State University
1993 - Margaret R. Hutchinson, University of St. Thomas
1993 - Robert A. Northcutt, Southwest Texas State University
1992 - Landon A Colquitt, Texas Christian University (Posthumously)
1992 - Joe Cude, Tarleton State University
1991 - James C. Bradford, Abilene Christian University
1991 - Don E. Edmondson
1990 - Glenn E. Mattingly, Sam Houston State University
1990 - John T. Mohat, University of North Texas
1990 - Herbert C. Parrish, University of North Texas
1986 - R. H. Bing, University of Texas
1981 - Robert Greenwood, University of Texas
1979 - Emmett Hazelwood, Texas Tech University
1979 - E. Richard Heineman, Texas Tech University
1978 - H. E. Bray, Rice University
1977 - H. J. Ettlinger, University of Texas
1977 - C. R. Sherer, Texas Christian University (Posthumously)
The Ron Barnes Distinguished Service to Students Award is given in recognition of faculty who have distinguished themselves through service and support of undergraduate students within the Texas Section. Nominations must be submitted using our nomination form no later than November 15.
2024 - Iván Ojeda-Ruiz, Texas State University
2023 - Alison Marr, Southwestern University
2022 - Raegan Higgins, Texas Tech University
2021 - Meri Hughes, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
2020 - Joseph Iaia, University of North Texas
2019 - Eileen Faulkenberry, Tarleton State University
2018 - Jason Callahan, St. Edwards University
2017 - Angie Brown, Sul Ross State University
2015 - Therese Shelton, Southwestern University
2014 - Sue Geller, Texas A&M University
2013 - Dawn Slavens, Midwestern State University
2012 - Ron Barnes, University of Houston
2011 - Jean McKemie, St. Edwards University
2010 - Sarah T. Stovall, Stephen F. Austin State University
2009 - Haozxuan Zhou, University of the Incarnate Word
2008 - Cynthia Y. Naples, St. Edward's University
2007 - Jennifer McLoud-Mann, The University of Texas at Tyler
2006 - Jacqueline A. Jensen, Sam Houston State University
2005 - Pam Roberson, Stephen F. Austin State University