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

Mathematical Association of America The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) is a professional society that focuses on mathematics accessible at the undergraduate level. Members include university, college, and high school teachers; graduate and undergraduate students; pure a ...

to recognize college or university teachers "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 Deborah Tepper Haimo (1921–2007) was an American mathematician who became president of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). Her research concerned "classical analysis, in particular, generalizations of the heat equation, special functi ...

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, V. Frederick Rickey,

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 *1997: Carl C. Cowen, Carl Pomerance, and

T. Christine Stevens Terrie Christine Stevens, also known as T. Christine Stevens, is an American mathematician whose research concerns topological groups, the history of mathematics, and mathematics education.

*1998: Colin Adams, Rhonda Hatcher, and Rhonda Hughes *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, 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 Andrew Chiang-Fung Liu (born March 15, 1947) is a Canadian mathematician. He is a professor emeritus in the Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at the University of Alberta. Liu was born in Guangzhou, and attended New Method Coll ...

, and Olympia Nicodemi *2005: Gerald L. Alexanderson,

Aparna Higgins Aparna W. Higgins is a mathematician known for her encouragement of undergraduate mathematicians to participate in mathematical research. Higgins originally specialized in universal algebra, but her more recent research concerns graph theory, inclu ...

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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, and

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. ...

, and Gilbert Strang *2008: Annalisa Crannell, Kenneth I. Gross, and

James A. Morrow James A. Morrow (born September 14, 1941) is an American mathematician and professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. His research interests shifted from several complex variables and differential ge ...

*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 *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,

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Cynthia Wyels Cynthia Jean Wyels is an American mathematician whose interests include linear algebra, combinatorics, and mathematics education, and who is known for her research in graph pebbling and radio coloring of graphs. She is a professor of mathematics a ...

*2013: Matthias Beck,

Margaret M. Robinson Margaret Maher Robinson is an American mathematician specializing in number theory and the theory of zeta functions. She is the Julia and Sarah Ann Adams Professor of Mathematics at Mount Holyoke College. Education and career Robinson graduated fr ...

, and Francis Su *2014: Carl Lee, Gavin LaRose, and Andrew Bennett *2015:

Judith Covington Judith Lynnette Covington is an American mathematician and mathematics educator who works as a professor of mathematics at Louisiana State University Shreveport (LSUS). Education and career Covington earned her Ph.D. in 1993 at the University o ...

, 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 ...

*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 *2017:

Janet Barnett Janet Heine Barnett is a professor of mathematics at Colorado State University–Pueblo, interested in set theory, mathematical logic, the history of mathematics, women in mathematics, and mathematics education. Education and career Barnett is o ...

Caren Diefenderfer Caren Lea Diefenderfer (January 18, 1952 – March 30, 2017) was an American mathematician known for her efforts to promote numeracy. Education and career Diefenderfer was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She started her undergraduate education a ...

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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 Suzanne Ingrid Dorée is a professor of mathematics at Augsburg University, where she is also chair of the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science,. She is chair of the Congress of the Mathematical Association of America and, a ...

, Carl Lee, and Jennifer Switkes *2020: Federico Ardila,

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. ...

, and Suzanne Weekes *2021: Dave Kung, David Austin, and Elaine Kasimatis *2022:

Pamela E. Harris Pamela Estephania Harris (born November 28, 1983) is a Mexican-American mathematician, educator and advocate for immigrants. She is currently an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was formerl ...

, Darren Narayan, and Robin Wilson

References

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Winners

See also

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