The Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Awards for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics are awards given by the
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to recognize
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or
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teacher
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s "who have been widely recognized as extraordinarily successful and whose teaching effectiveness has been shown to have had influence beyond their own institutions."
[ The Haimo awards are the highest teaching honor bestowed by the MAA. The awards were established in 1993 by Deborah Tepper Haimo and named after Haimo and her husband Franklin Haimo.][. See in particula]
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where founding this award is called Haimo's "most lasting accomplishment". After the first year of the award (when seven awards were given) up to three awards are given every year.
Winners
The winners of the award have been:
*1993: Joseph Gallian, Robert V. Hogg
Robert Vincent ("Bob") Hogg (8 November 1924 – 23 December 2014) was an American statistician and professor of statistics of the University of Iowa. Hogg is known for his widely used textbooks on statistics (with his 1963 Ph.D. student Elliot A ...
, Anne Lester Hudson
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, Frank Morgan
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, V. Frederick Rickey
Vincent Frederick Rickey (born 17 December 1941) is an American logician and historian of mathematics.
Rickey received his B.S. (1963), M.S. (1966), and Ph.D. (1968) from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. His Ph.D. was entitled ...
, Doris Schattschneider
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, and Philip D. Straffin Jr.
*1994: Paul Halmos, Justin Jesse Price
Justin Jesse Price (1930 – 12 March 2011) was an American mathematician, known for several textbooks and contributions to his field.
His Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania was ''I. Some Duality Theorems II. On the Characters ...
, and Alan Tucker
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*1995: Robert L. Devaney
Robert Luke Devaney (born 1948) is an American mathematician, the Feld Family Professor of Teaching Excellence at Boston University. His research involves dynamical systems and fractals..
Education and career
Devaney was born on April 9, 1948, a ...
, Lisa Mantini, and David S. Moore
*1996: Thomas Banchoff, Edward M. Landesman, and Herbert Wilf
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*1997: Carl C. Cowen, Carl Pomerance, and T. Christine Stevens
*1998: Colin Adams, Rhonda Hatcher, and Rhonda Hughes
Rhonda Jo Hughes (born Rhonda Weisberg September 28, 1947). is an American mathematician, the Helen Herrmann Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Bryn Mawr College.
*1999: Joel Brawley
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, Robert W. Case, and Joan Hutchinson
Joan Prince Hutchinson (born 1945) is an American mathematician and Professor Emerita of Mathematics from Macalester College.
Education
Joan Hutchinson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; her father was a demographer and university professor, ...
*2000: Arthur T. Benjamin
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He is ...
, Donald S. Passman, and Gary W. Towsley
*2001: Edward Burger, Evelyn Silvia
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, and Leonard F. Klosinki
*2002: Dennis DeTurck
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, Paul Sally
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, and Edward Spitznagel Jr.
*2003: Judith Grabiner, Ranjan Roy, and Paul Zeitz
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In 1974 Pau ...
*2004: Thomas Garrity, Andy Liu, and Olympia Nicodemi
*2005: Gerald L. Alexanderson, Aparna Higgins, and Deborah Hughes Hallett
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*2006: Jacqueline Dewar
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Edu ...
, Keith Stroyan
Keith D. Stroyan is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Iowa. His main research interests are in analysis and visual depth perception.
Publications
*Stroyan, K. D.; Luxemburg, W. A. J. ''Introduction to the theory of infinitesimals''. P ...
, and Judy L. Walker
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*2007: Jennifer Quinn, Michael Starbird
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, and Gilbert Strang
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*2008: Annalisa Crannell
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Education
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, Kenneth I. Gross, and James A. Morrow
*2009: Michael Bardzell, David Pengelley, and Vali Siadat
*2010: Curtis Bennett, Michael Dorff, and Allan J. Rossman
*2011: Erica Flapan, Karen Rhea, and Zvezdelina Stankova
Zvezdelina Entcheva Stankova ( bg, Звезделина Енчева Станкова; born 15 September 1969) is a professor of mathematics at Mills College and a teaching professor at the University of California, Berkeley, the founder of the Be ...
*2012: Matthew DeLong, Susan Loepp
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Professional career
Loepp graduated from Bethel College (Kansas) in 1989, , and Cynthia Wyels
*2013: Matthias Beck, Margaret M. Robinson, and Francis Su
Francis Edward Su is an American mathematician. He joined the Harvey Mudd College faculty in 1996, and is currently Benediktsson-Karwa Professor of Mathematics. Su served as president of the Mathematical Association of America from 2015–2017 ...
*2014: Carl Lee, Gavin LaRose, and Andrew Bennett
*2015: Judith Covington, Brian Hopkins, and Shahriar Shahriari
Shahriar Shahriari (born May 30, 1956) is an American mathematician. He is the William Polk Russell Professor of Mathematics at Pomona College.
Early life and education
Shahriari was born on May 30, 1956, in Tehran, Iran, to Parviz and Zomorod S ...
*2016: Satyan Devadoss
Satyan L. Devadoss is the Fletcher Jones Chair of Applied Mathematics and Professor of Computer Science at the University of San Diego. , Tyler Jarvis, and Glen Van Brummelen
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*2017: Janet Barnett, Caren Diefenderfer, and Tevian Dray
Tevian Dray (born March 17, 1956) is an American mathematician
who has worked in general relativity, mathematical physics,
geometry, and both science and mathematics education. He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2010.
H ...
*2018: Gary Gordon, Hortensia Soto
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, and Ron Taylor
*2019: Suzanne Dorée, Carl Lee, and Jennifer Switkes
*2020: Federico Ardila
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, Mark Tomforde
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at University of Colorado Colorado Springs. He works in the areas of functional analysis and algebra, and he earned his Ph.D. in mathematics at Dartmouth College in 2002. ...
, and Suzanne Weekes
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*2021: Dave Kung, David Austin, and Elaine Kasimatis
*2022: Pamela E. Harris, Darren Narayan, and Robin Wilson
See also
* List of mathematics awards
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References
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Mathematics education awards
American awards
Awards established in 1991
1991 establishments in the United States
Awards of the Mathematical Association of America