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From https://psychology.tamu.edu/jack-nation-outstanding-senior-award/

Jack Nation Outstanding Senior Award

Dr. Jack Nation (1948-2008) was a significant presence in the Psychology Department for more than 30 years. Trained as an experimental psychologist for his Ph.D. degree at the University of Oklahoma, Jack began his research career in the field of learning, particularly operant conditioning. But he later reinvented himself in the field of behavioral toxicology. There he investigated the effects of heavy metals such as lead and cadmium on behavior and emotionality, using a rat model. His later work investigated how neurotoxicology could be applied to the study of drug abuse. Jack loved research, and his investigations were supported for many years by federal grants. Yet he loved teaching as well. He was arguably the best teacher in the Department and one of the two or three best in the entire University. He loved the classroom but also the teaching he did in mentorship of those students – graduate, undergraduate, and high school – who worked in his research lab. In his career at Texas A&M Jack won awards for both his teaching and his research, and he clearly exhibited the highest achievements in both areas.

Beginning in 2013, the Department presents an annual award to the most outstanding graduating senior in psychology – the Jack Nation Award. This award is endowed by a very generous gift from Dr. Michael Shahnasarian, one of many graduate students impacted by Jack’s work.

As the historian Henry Brooks Adams has told us, teachers affect eternity; they can never tell where their influence will end.
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From findagrave.com

Jack Randall Nation

Birth: Aug. 22, 1948
Death: May 27, 2008

Duncan Banner, Wed., June 4, 2008
College Station, Texas - Former Duncan, Okla., resident JACK RANDALL NATION, 59, of College Station, Texas, died Tuesday, May 27, 2008, in his home.
Funeral was at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 1, in Texas A&M Methodist Church. Burial was in College Station Cemetery.
Jack was born Aug. 22, 1948, in Duncan, to Thomas and Winona Morris Nation. He was raised in Comanche, Okla., and graduated in 1966 from Comanche High School.
Jack earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from Central State College in Edmond, Okla., in 1970. He served in the U.S. Army. Jack went on to earn a doctoral degree in psychology from the University of Oklahoma.
He worked for 34 years at Texas A&M University as a professor in the Psychology Department. Jack trained numerous undergraduate and graduate students in experimental psychology and behavioral toxicology. During his career, he published numerous books and more than 100 research articles. His research on lead pollution and drug abuse was supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Jack was unique in that he was a master teacher and scholar. He held the Murray and Celeste Fasken Chair in Distinguished Teaching and the Ralph R. Thomas '21 Professorship in Liberal Arts. In addition, Jack received university and college level Distinguished Achievement Awards in Teaching and a Distinguished Research Award in the College of Liberal Arts.
Jack was passionate about sports, especially University of Oklahoma football, and was an avid reader.
Survivors include his wife, Patricia Nation of College Station; a son, Derek Nation of College Station; a daughter and son-in-law, Shannon and Bryan Sanders of Bastrop, Texas; brothers and sisters-in-law, John and Ann Nation of North Carolina, and Monty and Betty Nation of Oklahoma; and grand-children, Hunter, Strider and Bailey Sanders of Bastrop.
Jack was preceded in death by his parents.


Burial:
College Station Cemetery
College Station
Brazos County
Texas, USA

Created by: Jean
Record added: Jun 04, 2008
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