The Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Awards for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics are awards given by the

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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 Anne Lester Hudson is an American mathematician and mathematics educator. Her research specialty is the theory of topological semigroups; she is also known for her skill at mathematical problem-solving, and has coached students to success in both ...

Frank Morgan Francis Phillip Wuppermann (June 1, 1890 – September 18, 1949), known professionally as Frank Morgan, was an American character actor. He was best known for his appearances in films starting in the silent era in 1916, and then numerous soun ...

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 Doris J. Schattschneider (née Wood) is an American mathematician, a retired professor of mathematics at Moravian College. She is known for writing about tessellations and about the art of M. C. Escher,.. for helping Martin Gardner validate and p ...

, 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 ...

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Alan Tucker Alan may refer to: People * Alan (surname), an English and Turkish surname * Alan (given name), an English given name **List of people with given name Alan ''Following are people commonly referred to solely by "Alan" or by a homonymous name.'' * ...

*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 Herbert Saul Wilf (June 13, 1931 – January 7, 2012) was a mathematician, specializing in combinatorics and graph theory. He was the Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics in Combinatorial Analysis and Computing at the University of Pennsylv ...

*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 Joel Vincent Brawley, Jr. is the Alumni Distinguished Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Clemson University. Brawley is reputed nationally for being a prolific mathematics educator and is regarded highly for his teaching abilities. Brawley is al ...

, 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 Arthur T. Benjamin (born March 19, 1961) is an American mathematician who specializes in combinatorics. Since 1989 he has been a professor of mathematics at Harvey Mudd College, where he is the Smallwood Family Professor of Mathematics. He is ...

, Donald S. Passman, and Gary W. Towsley *2001: Edward Burger,

Evelyn Silvia Evelyn Marie Silvia (February 8, 1948 – January 21, 2006) was an American mathematician specializing in functional analysis and particularly in starlike functions. She was a professor at the University of California, Davis, and as well as teachi ...

, and Leonard F. Klosinki *2002:

Dennis DeTurck Dennis M. DeTurck (born July 15, 1954) is an American mathematician known for his work in partial differential equations and Riemannian geometry, in particular contributions to the theory of the Ricci flow and the prescribed Ricci curvature problem ...

Paul Sally Paul Joseph Sally, Jr. (January 29, 1933 – December 30, 2013) was a professor of mathematics at the University of Chicago, where he was the Director of Undergraduate Studies for 30 years. His research areas were ''p''-adic analysis and repres ...

, and Edward Spitznagel Jr. *2003: Judith Grabiner, Ranjan Roy, and

Paul Zeitz Paul Zeitz (born July 5, 1958) is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of San Francisco. He is the author of '' The Art and Craft of Problem Solving'', and a co-author of '' Statistical Explorations with Excel''. Biography In 1974 Pau ...

*2004: Thomas Garrity, Andy Liu, and Olympia Nicodemi *2005: Gerald L. Alexanderson, Aparna Higgins, and

Deborah Hughes Hallett Deborah J. Hughes Hallett is a mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at the University of Arizona. Her expertise is in the undergraduate teaching of mathematics. She has also taught as Professor of the Practice in the Teaching of M ...

*2006:

Jacqueline Dewar Jacqueline M. Dewar (née Deveny) is an American mathematician and mathematics educator known for her distinguished teaching and her mentorship of women in mathematics. She is a professor emerita of mathematics at Loyola Marymount University. 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 ...

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Judy L. Walker Judy Leavitt Walker is an American mathematician. She is the Aaron Douglas Professor of Mathematics at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where she chaired the mathematics department from 2012 through 2016 and currently serves as the Associate ...

*2007: Jennifer Quinn,

Michael Starbird Michael P. Starbird (born 1948) is a Professor of Mathematics and a University of Texas Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his B.A from Pomona College and his Ph.D. ...

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Gilbert Strang William Gilbert Strang (born November 27, 1934), usually known as simply Gilbert Strang or Gil Strang, is an American mathematician, with contributions to finite element theory, the calculus of variations, wavelet analysis and linear algebra. H ...

*2008:

Annalisa Crannell Annalisa Crannell is an American mathematician, and an expert in the mathematics of water waves, chaos theory, and geometric perspective. She is a professor of mathematics at Franklin & Marshall College. Education Crannell is the daughter of ...

, 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 Susan Renee Loepp (born 1967) is an American mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at Williams College. Her research concerns commutative algebra. 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 Glen Robert Van Brummelen (born May 20th, 1965) is a Canadian historian of mathematics specializing in historical applications of mathematics to astronomy. In his words, he is the “best trigonometry historian, and the worst trigonometry historian ...

*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 Hortensia Soto is a Mexican–American mathematics educator, and a professor of mathematics at Colorado State University. In May 2018, she was appointed Associate Secretary of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). Early life and educa ...

, and Ron Taylor *2019: Suzanne Dorée, Carl Lee, and Jennifer Switkes *2020:

Federico Ardila Federico Ardila (born 1977) is a Colombian mathematician and DJ who researches combinatorics and specializes in matroid theory. Ardila graduated from MIT with a B.Sc. in Mathematics in 1998 and obtained a Ph.D in 2003 under the supervision of ...

Mark Tomforde Mark Tomforde is an American mathematician and Professor of Mathematics 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. ...

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Suzanne Weekes Suzanne L. Weekes is the Executive Director of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. She is also Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). She is a co-founder of the Mathematical Sciences Research ...

*2021: Dave Kung, David Austin, and Elaine Kasimatis *2022: Pamela E. Harris, Darren Narayan, and Robin Wilson

References

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Winners

See also

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