Distinguished Achievement Award Winners

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Maurice E. Dennis

Maurice E. Dennis
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Year Awarded: 2004

College: Education and Human Development

Award Level: Continuing Education/Extension

Darren L. DePoy

Darren L. DePoy
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Year Awarded: 2015

Darren DePoy is an astronomer and holder of the endowed Rachal/Mitchell/Heep Professorship in Physics in the Department of Physics & Astronomy. He also serves as deputy director of the Munnerlyn Astronomical Laboratory. He joined the faculty of the College of Science in 2008. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii. Dr. DePoy is a world leader in the development of astronomical instrumentation for ground-based telescopes. Before coming to Texas A&M he was the director of Astronomical Instrumentation at The Ohio State University. While there, he was project scientist for the Dark Energy Survey camera—the world’s largest digital camera—that is now working in Chile. Although it is common for astronomers who are experts in instrumentation to not do science along with instrumentation development, Dr. DePoy actively uses the instruments he builds. His main field of work has been the study of active galactic nuclei fueled by the enormous black holes, and the discovery of exoplanets using “microlensing,” the rapid brightening and fading of a distant star by a foreground object. He is also involved with other initiatives, including the Giant Magellan Telescope. His leadership in astronomical instrumentation has positioned Texas A&M as a premiere institution in astronomical instrumentation. His international impact is expressed by a few quotes from colleagues. “Darren’s contributions to astronomical research…have expanded the frontier of astronomical observations,” “His work has enabled, or aided, the research of hundreds of professional research astronomers world-wide,” and “By training the next generation of instrumentalists DePoy is making a contribution to the future of astronomy that will endure.” His nominator sums up, saying, “We were incredibly fortunate to bring Prof. DePoy to Texas A&M.”

College: College of Science

Award Level: Research

Andrew Dessler

Andrew Dessler
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Year Awarded: 2018

Andrew Dessler earned a bachelor’s degree from Rice University and a doctorate from Harvard University. He also did postdoctoral work at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and spent nine years on the research faculty of the University of Maryland. He joined the faculty of the College of Geosciences in 2005 and holds the Earl F. Cook Professor of Geosciences at Texas A&M University. Dr. Dessler’s scientific research revolves around climate sensitivity ? how much warming of the climate system occurs per unit carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere. As part of this, he has researched individual climate feedbacks, in particular how water vapor and clouds act to amplify an initial temperature perturbation of the climate system. He is widely recognized to be among the world’s experts in this area. During the last year of the Clinton Administration, he served as a senior policy analyst in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Based on this, as well as his research experience, he has authored two books on climate change: The science and politics of global climate change: A guide to the debate (co-written with Edward Parson), and Introduction to modern climate change. This latter book won the 2014 American Meteorological Society Louis J. Battan Author's Award. He was named a Google Science Communication Fellow in recognition of his work communicating climate science to the public, and he received the American Geophysical Union’s Ascent Award from the atmospheric sciences section to reward exceptional research achievements by a mid-career scientist. In 2017, Dr. Dessler was elected an AAAS Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science for “outstanding research in atmospheric chemistry and physics, teaching, writing, and community service.”

College: Department of Atmospheric Sciences

Award Level: Research

Katherine Dettwyler

Katherine Dettwyler
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Year Awarded: 2001

College: Liberal Arts

Award Level: Teaching

Ronald A. DeVore

Ronald A. DeVore
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Year Awarded: 2014

Ronald A. DeVore is a University Distinguished Professor and the Walter E. Koss Professor in the Department of Mathematics. He has been a faculty member of the College of Science since 2007. He earned his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. Known internationally for the breadth and originality of his fundamental contributions to applied mathematics, Dr. DeVore has received many honors, including the Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris Gold Medal, the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award, and the Bulgarian Gold Medal of Science. He is a member of the inaugural class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, a member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has more than 155 refereed journal publications, 3 books and 10 expository articles. His work has been cited more than 15,000 times.



Dr. DeVore’s career touches upon many areas of mathematics, including approximation theory, numerical analysis, signal/image processing, and statistical estimation. His research has been rated by his peers as “profound and revolutionary,” his contributions as “fundamental,” his work as being endowed with “an exceptional mutually synergetic balance between theory and applications,” and his achievements as “simply astounding.” A supporter from Duke University said, “If I could build my own Dream Team of mathematical researchers of both theory and applications, he would be its Captain.” Another supporter adds, “Prof. Ron DeVore is my hero. Why is he my hero? Because he is all what we dream of becoming as faculty members.” The trademark of Professor DeVore’s work is that, as another colleague summarizes, “many of his results have been the first of a particular kind, thereby becoming door openers, exhibiting in a way the highest level of genuine novelty.”



College: College of Science

Award Level: Research

Sidney DeWerth

Sidney DeWerth
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Year Awarded: 1967

College: Liberal Arts

Award Level: Teaching

R. Clark Diebel

R. Clark Diebel
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Year Awarded: 1979

College: Staff

Award Level: Staff

John Dinkel

John Dinkel
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Year Awarded: 1998

College: Business

Award Level: Administration

Joe Dixon

Joe Dixon
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Year Awarded: 1979

College: Agriculture and Life Sciences

Award Level: Research

Warren Dixon

Warren Dixon
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Year Awarded: 1979

College: Liberal Arts

Award Level: Student Relations

Fred Dollar ’44

Fred Dollar ’44
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Year Awarded: 1977

College: Staff

Award Level: Staff

Patrick Domenico

Patrick Domenico
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Year Awarded: 1989

College: Geosciences

Award Level: Teaching

Joseph Donaldson

Joseph Donaldson
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Year Awarded: 1979

College: Architecture

Award Level: Teaching

Wesley Donaldson

Wesley Donaldson
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Year Awarded: 1980

College: Administration

Award Level: Staff

Edward R. Dougherty

Edward R. Dougherty
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Year Awarded: 2005

College: Engineering

Award Level: Research

Bastiaan Drees

Bastiaan Drees
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Year Awarded: 1996

College: TAEX

Award Level: Continuing Education/Professional Development

Sandra Drews

Sandra Drews
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Year Awarded: 2003

College: Geosciences

Award Level: Individual Student Relations

Suzanne Droleskey ’00

Suzanne Droleskey ’00
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Year Awarded: 1996

College: International Student Services

Award Level: Student Relations

Michael Duff

Michael Duff
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Year Awarded: 1998

College: Science

Award Level: Research

N.M. Duller, Jr. ’48

N.M. Duller, Jr. ’48
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Year Awarded: 1965

College: Science

Award Level: Teaching

Kim R. Dunbar

Kim R. Dunbar
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Year Awarded: 2006

College: Science

Award Level: Graduate Mentoring

Kim Dunbar

Kim Dunbar
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Year Awarded: 2012

Kim Dunbar earned her Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1984 and was a postdoctoral research associate at Texas A&M in 1985-86. She has been a member of the Texas A&M faculty since 1999 and is the Davidson Professor of Science in the College of Science. Her research program spans several areas of interest in fundamental and applied research. The projects are in three general areas: magnetic and electronic molecular materials, supramolecular chemistry of anions, and metal complexes in medicinal applications.



During her distinguished career as an inorganic chemist, she has published more than 300 articles in top-tier journals and the mentored more than a hundred undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and visiting students and scholars. These numbers include 29 Ph.D. students and 6 master’s students who have gone on to successful careers in academia and industry.



Dr. Dunbar is one of the most productive inorganic chemists in the world with 9,380 citations to her credit. In addition to her research, she is a very conscientious member of the scientific community, playing a major role in national and international professional activities. She is recognized throughout the world both for her creativity and excellence in research and for her energetic participation in meetings, professional organizations, and the publication of research.



Dr. Dunbar has received many honors and awards for teaching and research. To name a few, she received the premier Teaching Award for freshman chemistry from Michigan State University, a Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, a Sigma Xi Research Award, and two NSF Creativity Extension Awards. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Chemical Society. She is the first woman in the College of Science at Texas A&M to be named a Chaired Professor.

College: Science

Award Level: Research

Chester Dunning

Chester Dunning
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Year Awarded: 1995

College: Liberal Arts

Award Level: Teaching

Richard Timothy Dye ’85

Richard Timothy Dye ’85
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Year Awarded: 2006

College: Business

Award Level: Teaching

Nancy Dyer

Nancy Dyer
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Year Awarded: 1994

College: Liberal Arts

Award Level: Teaching

Amy E. Earhart '99

Amy E. Earhart '99
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Year Awarded: 2017

Amy Earhart is an associate professor of English and affiliated with Africana Studies. She has been employed at Texas A&M for 21 years, 2 in her current position. She earned her Ph.D. in English with a certificate in Women’s Studies from Texas A&M. Dr. Earhart’s nominator describes her as not only one of the outstanding teachers in the Department of English, but also as a leading innovator in the evolving world of digital humanities and online pedagogy. For example, she pioneered a robust, fully online Survey of American Literature course that 175-250 students take each semester and went on to lead a successful effort to develop additional online courses in the Department. She also incorporates high-impact digital humanities projects in her classes, notably the Alex Haley Papers, which led to a publication for involved students, The Millican “Riot,” 1868, a digital archive of primary sources about this crucial local event. Her nominator adds that her pedagogical innovations transmit both solid content and lifelong critical skills to her students as well as teaching students the importance of previously ignored writers in the American literary tradition. Dr. Earhart, a recipient of the Montague-CTE Scholars Teaching Award, teaches undergraduate core curriculum and specialty courses as well as graduate seminars, and receives consistently outstanding student evaluations. A deeply honest and poignant letter from a former student, who now works at YES Prep Public Schools in Houston, describes how Dr. Earhart transformed her own view of “Blackness”: “I was appreciative to Dr. Earhart for teaching me about our history so I could teach others. From that moment, I decided to take any opportunity I could to educate others about our history.” Dr. Earhart’s is humanities teaching at its finest. It directly impacts the lives and work of students and helps create a more discerning, just, and informed society.

College: Department of English

Award Level: Teaching

Ann Eastwood

Ann Eastwood
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Year Awarded: 2011

Ms. Ann Eastwood has been employed at Texas A&M over 17 years. She attended Business College and received her degree in business administration. She has worked in several departments across campus including the Department of Construction Science, International Programs Office, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Ms. Eastwood's career highlights include in the Texas A&M Traditions of Excellence Staff Award, the Staff Star Award from International Programs Office, the Linda J. Todd Outstanding Support Staff Achievement Award, the Construction Industry Advisory Board's Special Recognition Award, and the "Mother Hen Award" from the Staff Development Committee in the College of Architecture. Ann's most proud and honored career highlight was in 2005 when the graduating class in Department of Construction Science endowed a scholarship in her name.



One dean from Texas A&M-Galveston wrote of Ms. Eastwood, “In my 30 years of working in higher education, I can say that Ann Eastwood is one of the finest people I have ever had the privilege of working with. Since I came to the University of Oklahoma to be the Dean of the College of Architecture, I have continued to hear high praise for her good work there in the Dean's office at Texas A&M. This is precisely what I would have predicted.” Another colleague wrote of Ms. Eastwood, “Unfortunately last fall one of our students died. Ann worked with the family for a special evening prior to Silver Taps. She gathered the young man's classmates and faculty so they could visit with the family and have dinner together in the Wright Gallery. Since the family spoke little English, she made sure that there were translators at the tables and a pianist in the lobby of the building. This was the parent's first visit to Texas A&M University. Ann gathered pictures of the young student with his competition team and with his teachers and had the teachers and students write about their time with him to his parents. I am confident that this made a lasting and special impression of our University.”

College: Architecture

Award Level: Staff

Catherine Eckel

Catherine Eckel
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Year Awarded: 2018

Catherine Eckel earned a bachelor’s degree from Virginia Commonwealth University and a doctorate from the University of Virginia. She joined the faculty of the College of Liberal Arts in 2012 as the Sara & John Lindsey Professor of Economics. She was named University Distinguished Professor in 2015. Dr. Eckel’s primary research is in the areas of experimental and behavioral economics. She has made important contributions on topics that are both policy-relevant and of interest to the academic community. Examples include studies of the effect of subsidies on charitable giving, measuring risk preferences, and discrimination by race and gender as evidenced in games of trust. Her hundred-plus papers published as journal articles and book chapters have garnered over 11,000 citations (Google Scholar). In a recent published world ranking of over 1,500 researchers in experimental economics, Dr. Eckel is ranked 14th (top 0.1%). She is the number-one-ranked female experimental economist in the world. She is or has been a principal investigator or co-principal-investigator on 23 grants from the National Science Foundation, totaling more than $4.4 million. Dr. Eckel is currently president of the Economic Science Association, the professional association of experimental and behavioral economists. She is the past-president of the Southern Economic Association, the largest regional association in economics. She also served as Economics Program Director at the National Science Foundation. In January 2013, Dr. Eckel was awarded the prestigious Carolyn Shaw Bell Award, which is given annually by the American Economic Association Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession to an individual who has furthered the status of women in the economics profession, through example, achievements, increasing our understanding of how women can advance in the economics profession, or mentoring others.

College: Department of Economics

Award Level: Research

John Edwards '00

John Edwards '00
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Year Awarded: 2011

Dr. John F. Edwards has been at Texas A&M University for 27 years. He earned his B.A. (Microbiology, University of New Hampshire) in 1966, DVM (The Ohio State University) in 1974 and Ph.D. (Cornell University) in 1983 and is board certified in Veterinary Pathology. Dr. Edwards was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Brazil. His awards include: Samuel F. Scheidy Memorial Award " Best Presentation on", American Veterinary Medical Association Foundation, World Veterinary Congress; Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital Clinical Service Award, College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University; The Robert L. Farrell Distinguished Lecturer Award: CL Davis Foundation for Service. Of the TAMU students he has assisted in training, 96% have completed the American College of Veterinary Pathologists and Clinical Pathologists board examination, an international examination with a 25-40% pass rate. Dr. Edwards was a major organizer of the annual CL Davis Foundation Southwest Region Meeting of Pathology. Dr. Edwards was a member of the original advisory board and is presently a member of the Board of Directors of The Charles Louis Davis, DVM Foundation for the International Advancement of Veterinary & Comparative Pathology. He maintains the Foundation Study Center at TAMU. For 15 years, he was the lead instructor of red meat pathology for the USDA FS IS Training Center and has presented red meat and avian pathology courses for institutions worldwide. Dr. Ed wards' area of funded research is in viral-induced malformations of the ruminant fetus. He collaborates internationally with veterinarians on a variety of projects, especially those involving reproduction and infectious diseases.



One former student wrote, “If anyone deserves an award (or knighthood) for graduate student mentoring it would ABSOLUTEL Y be the incomparable Dr. John Edwards…. His efforts to prepare residents for the gross portion of the exam and for their careers afterward are no less than legendary; not only here at TAMU but also around the world.” In addition, the former student states, “He has an answer for every question and without hesitation gives generously of his time, knowledge, patience, and energy to residents, vet students, and colleagues a like. I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to learn from him during my time here at Texas A&M."





College: College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Award Level: Graduate Mentoring

Patty Edwards '02

Patty Edwards '02
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Year Awarded: 2010

College: Texas A&M University at Galveston

Award Level: Individual Student Relationships

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