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Philip Uri Treisman is an American
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and mathematics educator. He is the Director of the Charles A. Dana Center, and is a Professor of Mathematics at
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. He is credited with pioneering the Emerging Scholars Program (ESP), aimed at helping students from underprivileged backgrounds excel in calculus and other courses in science. The program was first implemented at the
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and has now disseminated throughout college campuses across the United States. His efforts to improve American education have been recognized by
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, the Harvard Foundation and the
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, among other publications and societies. He graduated ''
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'' with a B.S. in Mathematics from the
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, and from the
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with a
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in 1985.


Awards

* 1987 Charles A. Dana Award for Pioneering Achievement in American Higher Education. *1992
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*2006 The Harvard Foundation's Scientist of the Year Award *2019 Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Award


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"Dr. Philip Treisman Meets Isaac Newton in Surreal Space"
''Digital Writing & Research Lab'', Amanda Dulcinea Cuéllar
"Philip Uri Treisman"
''Mathematics Genealogy Project''

''Studying Students Studying Calculus: A Look at the Lives of Minority Mathematics Students in College'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Treisman, Philip Living people 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians MacArthur Fellows UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni University of Texas at Austin faculty Year of birth missing (living people)