Peter
Lieuwen
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Year Awarded: 1994
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
Qi
Li ’91
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Year Awarded: 2013
Qi Li earned his Ph.D. in economics from Texas A&M in 1991 and began his academic career at the University of Guelph. He returned to Texas A&M as a faculty member in 1999 where he is Hugh Roy Cullen Professor in Liberal Arts. He is a Fellow of the Journal of Econometrics and currently is associate editor for six leading journals. Dr. Li is a theoretical econometrician who specializes in nonparametric econometrics. His frequently cited book Nonparametric Econometrics is the definitive text of the subfield and is a common reference source for top researchers and a textbook of choice in top graduate programs. He has published more than 100 articles in refereed journals and his publications have garnered more than 3,500 citations.
Advances in theoretical econometrics are fundamental to the advance of economic science. Econometricians are those who apply mathematics and statistics together with economics to verify economic theories. Qi Li is a leading econometrician, particularly in the area of nonparametric econometrics. He is internationally recognized for two lines of research that have had a major impact on the direction of scholarship in nonparametric econometrics. In the first case, he cracked a fundamental problem in applying the nonparametric regression modeling approach to situations involving both categorical and continuous data. This breakthrough is of huge value to all social scientists who work on problems involving discrete data. In the second case, he has developed consistency tests in the context of the nonparametric regression model that can be used to guide the choice of functional form and the choice of regressors for the regression function. These tests greatly enhance the attractiveness of the nonparametric approach to a wide audience of potential users, including non-economists. A supporter says that Li “ . . . is arguably the world’s leading researcher in nonparametric econometrics.”
College: Department of Economics
Award Level: Research
Jack
Lewis
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Year Awarded: 1961
College: Engineering
Award Level: Extension/ Continuing Education
August
Lenert ’43
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Year Awarded: 1958
College: Engineering
Award Level: Teaching
Rudolph
Leighton ’56
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Year Awarded: 1959
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Teaching
George
Lees
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Year Awarded: 2009
College: College of Veterinary Medicine
Award Level: Research
W. John
Lee
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Year Awarded: 2001
College: Engineering
Award Level: Extension/ Continuing Education
David R.
Larson
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Year Awarded: 2006
College: Science
Award Level: Teaching
Alvin
Larke
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Year Awarded: 1993
College: Education and Human Development
Award Level: Teaching
Rafael
Lara-Alecio
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Year Awarded: 2005
College: Education and Human Development
Award Level: Extension/ Continuing Education
Rafael
Lara-Alecio
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Year Awarded: 2014
Rafael Lara-Alecio joined the faculty of the College of Education and Human Development in 1991, after earning a Ph.D. from the University of Utah. He is the director of the Bilingual Education Program and the Center for Research and Development for Dual Language and Literacy Acquisition in the Department of Educational Psychology. He has published more than 100 refereed manuscripts, including journal articles, book chapters, and technical reports. He is co-editor of the Handbook on Educational Theories, which serves as the first comprehensive collection of some of the most influential theories guiding research for graduate students, professors, and practitioners. He has received numerous awards, including the Texas Higher Education Honoree from the Texas Association of Bilingual Education, the Outstanding Research Award from the Department of Educational Psychology, and the Diversity Award from the Office of the Provost and the Office of the Vice President and Associate Provost for Diversity.
An external supporter describes Dr. Lara-Alecio as “one of a small handful of founding fathers” in the field of multiple language acquisition, adding that he has been central to the growth and development of the field. Another supporter credits Dr. Lara-Alecio with adding substantially to the basic body of knowledge in multiple language acquisition, which has contributed significantly to the improvement of education conditions for English learners in the United States and abroad. A colleague concludes “Dr. Lara-Alecio has the broad-range strengths of an invigorating scholar whose ideas and work impact schools and communities in healthy ways. His long and championing leadership has strengthened a successful curriculum development for educators and schools and contributes to the growth of a culturally responsive K?12 pedagogy.”
College: College of Education and Human Development
Award Level: Research
Herbert
Lang
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Year Awarded: 1970
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
Carl
Landiss
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Year Awarded: 1970
College: Education and Human Development
Award Level: Teaching
Sandi
Lampo '93
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Year Awarded: 2010
College: Mays Business School
Award Level: Teaching
Charles
LaMotte
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Year Awarded: 1957
College: Science
Award Level: Teaching
Glen
Laine
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Year Awarded: 1997
College: Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science
Award Level: Research
Dimitris
Lagoudas
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Year Awarded: 2014
Dimitris C. Lagoudas is a University Distinguished Professor and the inaugural recipient of the John and Bea Slattery Chair in Aerospace Engineering. He serves as associate vice chancellor for engineering research for The Texas A&M University System, senior associate dean for research in the Dwight Look College of Engineering and deputy director of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), and the director of the Texas Institute for Intelligent Materials and Structures. He received his Ph.D. from Lehigh University. Dr. Lagoudas joined the Texas A&M faculty in 1992. His research involves the design, characterization and modeling of multifunctional material systems at nano, micro, and macro levels. His research team is one of the most recognized internationally in the area of modeling and characterization of shape memory alloys (materials that undergo a reversible thermo-mechanical phase transition so they “remember” their shapes) that are giving rise to applications in the aerospace, automotive, and medical areas.
Dr. Lagoudas has co-authored more than 400 scientific publications with 165 in archival journals. He has also co-authored a textbook with his graduate students. He is a TEES fellow, a Texas A&M University Faculty Fellow, and a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Institute of Physics. In addition, he has received numerous other significant awards.
A colleague at another university commented that the impact Dr. Lagoudas “has had on the aerospace profession and industry is profound.” The smart memory alloys framework his team developed has been an enabling step toward integrating active materials into commercial and military aircraft for increased fuel economy, increased performance, and decreased noise. Another colleague adds, “For any significant recognition the requirements can be boiled down to two words: quality and impact. Professor Lagoudas’ contributions have these in abundance.”
College: College of Engineering
Award Level: Research
Charles W.
Lafon
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Year Awarded: 2008
Charles Lafon joined the faculty of Texas A&M in 2000 after earning his Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee. He was named a Montague-Center for Teaching Excellence Scholar in 2004–05, and he received The Association of Former Students College-Level Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching, in 2006. He teaches an introductory course in physical geography; upper-level undergraduate courses in regional climatology, biogeography, and field geography; and a graduate course in biogeography. To promote his students’ academic and professional development and to stimulate their enthusiasm for geography, Dr. Lafon has designed a number of field, laboratory, and computer-based assignments, one of which led to a publication in a top geographic education journal.
Dr. Lafon serves as the Undergraduate Director and chair of the Undergraduate Committee in the Department of Geography. Currently he is leading the department’s efforts to revise and improve its undergraduate program.
Dr. Lafon has taken numerous graduate and undergraduate students with him on field research expeditions to the Appalachian Mountains, northern Sweden, and East Texas. He enjoys fieldwork and can think of no better way for students to learn and become excited about geography than to participate in field research activities. He also works closely with students to help them publish their research.
College: Geosciences
Award Level: Teaching
Linda
Lacey
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Year Awarded: 2005
College: Academic Affairs
Award Level: Staff
Yue
Kuo
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Year Awarded: 2012
Yue Kuo joined the faculty of the Department of Chemical Engineering in the Dwight Look College of Engineering in 1998. He is the Dow Professor of Chemical Engineering and holds joint appointments in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. Dr. Kuo earned a doctorate in engineering science from Columbia University in 1979. Before coming to Texas A&M he served in industry for nearly 20 years.
Dr. Kuo's research concentrates on nano and microelectronics with special interests in semiconductor materials, processes, and devices as well as thin films and plasma technology. In his thin film nano and microelectronics research laboratory, he develops new materials, novel processes, and advanced devices with the ultimate goal of creating high-performance, highly reliable, manufacturable devices for current and future applications. The results of his research are published in technical papers, proceedings, and patents. Many of his publications are credited as being among the most downloaded, editor selected, poster awarded, or news media quoted papers. His technical contributions have been recognized with numerous awards and honors, such as the Electrochemical Society’s Electronics and Photonics Division award and IBM awards. He is a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society and the IEEE Electron Devices Society.
As a leader in the worldwide thin film transistor and related solid-state community, Dr. Kuo has been very active in the Electrochemical Society and other professional organizations for 25 years. In addition he has been involved in organizing or chairing 70 international conferences. He is a much sought after speaker who has delivered nearly 130 keynote, plenary, and invited speeches to audiences at international conferences, universities and research and development centers around the world.
College: Engineering
Award Level: Research
George
Kunze ’45
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Year Awarded: 1984
College: Graduate Studies
Award Level: Staff
George
Kunze ’45
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Year Awarded: 1966
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Research
H.O.
Kunkel ’43
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Year Awarded: 1987
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Staff
H.O.
Kunkel ’43
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Year Awarded: 1956
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Teaching
Subodha
Kumar
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Year Awarded: 2016
Subodha Kumar, associate professor in the Department of Information and Operations Management, joined the faculty of the Mays Business School in 2009 after earning his PhD. from the University of Texas at Dallas. In his six years here, he has received three different teaching awards—the Montague-CTE Scholar Award, The Association of Former Students College-Level Award for Teaching, and the student-voted Teaching Excellence Award. His department head wrote that Dr. Kumar excels in all dimensions: excellent in research, excellent as a colleague, and excellent in teaching. In the past few years Dr. Kumar has taught the undergraduate Business Statistics core course, including the honors sections, and the MBA core course for Quantitative Methods. For both, his average course evaluation is 4.84 of a possible 5. Colleagues say the undergraduate statistics course can be difficult to teach because the students’ incoming level of knowledge and mathematical ability can vary widely. It is often a class that is loathed by students, regardless of the quality of the instructor. But, Dr. Kumar clearly has reversed that trend. He is innovative in the classroom and goes beyond the basic responsibility of teaching facts and formulas, providing a very comfortable leaning environment and exposing students to how statistics are used in the real world. One of his students said, “Prof. Kumar was awesome!! I don’t ever think I had a teacher that cared so much about his students.” Another commented, “I despise math, but INFO 303 has been my favorite math course. I think it helps that the material is presented in business terms & related to business applications.” An MBA student wrote, “He is essential in the MBA setting in my opinion.” And another MBA student put it succinctly, writing, “Just one word. Outstanding.”
College: Mays Business School
Award Level: Teaching
Harry
Kroiter
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Year Awarded: 1976
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
Bert
Kretzschmar
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Year Awarded: 1994
College: University Police
Award Level: Staff
Arnold
Krammer
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Year Awarded: 1989
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching