John
Prescott ’49
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Year Awarded: 1985
College: Medicine
Award Level: Staff
Mary Jo
Powell
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Year Awarded: 1995
College: University Relations
Award Level: Staff
Richard
Potts ’45
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Year Awarded: 1964
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Student Relations
Dudley
Poston, Jr.
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Year Awarded: 1998
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Research
Dudley
Poston
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Year Awarded: 2009
College: College of Liberal Arts
Award Level: Graduate Mentoring
Dan
Posey
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Year Awarded: 2007
Dr. Posey graduated from Texas A&M University in 1982. He was in private general veterinary practice in rural Madison County for 20 years. Dr. Posey received training in beef cattle production management through the Great Plains Veterinary Educational Center in Clay Center, Nebraska in 1996/1997. He joined the faculty of the Veterinary School at Texas A&M University in March 2002, where he instructs senior veterinary students through clinical service to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Agricultural Programs. The Texas A&M Veterinary School and T.D.C.J. have had a 38 year relationship in the training of veterinary students thru the care and service to their livestock. The T.D.C.J. Agricultural Division has a diverse animal population that consists of 16,000 cattle, 26,000 swine, 1.500 horses, 1,500 canine and 320,000 chickens. The primary objective of the TDCJ service rotation is to afford the professional veterinary students the opportunity to develop skills in veterinary primary care and client service.
Dr. Posey is boarded by the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners in beef cattle practice. He serves as the Chief of Food Animal Medicine in the Large Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University.
College: Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science
Award Level: Student Relations
Jay
Porter
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Year Awarded: 2007
Jay Porter joined the Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution Department in 1998 and is currently the Program Coordinator for the Electronics and the Telecommunications Engineering Technology Programs. He is a “three-time Aggie graduate” including a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. He has developed and taught eight different courses, all of which integrate traditional lectures with hands-on learning experiences. Many of the new course/laboratory developments have included major grants from industry leaders such as Texas Instruments, National Instruments, and Freescale Semiconductor (formerly Motorola) to establish state-of-the-art laboratories.
Dr. Porter possesses a unique capability to integrate his research and professional activities into providing students with a richer and more real-world educational experience, thus better preparing them for the demanding careers they will pursue after graduation. His recent efforts have focused on developing an engineering entrepreneurial educational experience, or E4, for undergraduate students. Once fully implemented, E4 will create a technology incubator dedicated to providing undergraduate students with an opportunity to take their intellectual property and develop it into a new business venture.
College: Engineering
Award Level: Teaching
Christopher
Pope
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Year Awarded: 2011
Dr. Christopher N. Pope has been at TAMU for 22 years. His earned his Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1980. He was the recipient of the Tv son Medal and the Rayleigh Prize, from the University of Cambridge, and was awarded First Prize by the Gravity Research Foundation. He has been the recipient of the TAMU Physics Department Graduate Teaching Award four times, and the TAMU College of Science Award for Teaching Excellence. He was appointed as Honorary Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. His research is principally concerned with the unification of the fundamental forces in nature, and especially attempts to unify quantum theory with Einstein’s general theory of relativity to give a consistent theory of quantum gravity. This work included some of the earliest applications of topological methods to the area of quantum gravity in the l970s; the spontaneous dimensional reduction of supergravitv and superstrings to obtain four-dimensional physics from higher dimensions: and the derivation of string-theory corrections to Einstein’s general relativity. Subsequent research has included studies of duality symmetries in supergravities: the construction of manifolds of exceptional holonomy and their applications in M-theory compactifications; obtaining the exact solutions for rotating black holes in supergravity and higher-dimensional general relativity; the construction of the largest known class of Einstein-Sasaki manifolds for applications in string-theory compactifications; and new results on black-hole thermodynamics in higher dimensions. He has over 340 publications, with more than 275 in refereed journals: more than 11.800 citations to published work: and an index” exceeding 53.
One student wrote, “Dr. Pope’s problems are challenging and help develop physical intuition and mathematical comfort. Students seeking guidance to homework problems find Dr. Pope’s office door wide open. In his office he calmly guides student thinking. He answers questions patiently but demands that students solve the problems themselves.”
Another former student wrote, “It was his teaching that made me finally decide on a career in physics, and what I learned in his class is till beneficial to me today. Now I am teaching physics myself.”
College: Science
Award Level: Teaching
Udo Walter
Pooch
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Year Awarded: 1974
College: Engineering
Award Level: Teaching
Valery
Pokrovsky
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Year Awarded: 2001
College: Science
Award Level: Research
Charles
Plum
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Year Awarded: 1983
College: Business
Award Level: Student Relations
Michelle D.
Pine ’02
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Year Awarded: 2018
Michelle D. Pine earned bachelor’s and doctor of veterinary medicine degrees from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She was a practicing veterinarian and a USDA Veterinary Medical Officer before coming to Texas A&M to earn her doctorate in toxicology. While a USDA Veterinary Medical Officer, she received a Certificate of Merit. As a doctoral student, she received a Texas A&M Regents Graduate Fellowship. Dr. Pine excelled in research during her graduate and postdoctoral training, publishing 14 research manuscripts and, in 2006, receiving the best reproductive toxicology publication of the year award from the European Teratology Society. Dr. Pine joined the faculty of the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in 2004. At that time, she began to focus more on her passion for teaching. Since then, she has been awarded a Texas A&M Teaching Excellence Award and was one of several College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences faculty members selected to participate in the national Bayer Animal Health Communication Project Faculty Program. She has also been honored by Texas A&M students as a Fish Camp namesake. Dr. Pine has been awarded several grants for teaching innovations, including an Instructional Technology Services grant, “Flipping Your Course,” which she very successfully accomplished, and a Texas A&M Classroom Instructional Technology Matching Grant to improve Gross Anatomy educational instruction in the college. In 2015, Dr. Pine and her collaborators received a Texas A&M University Tier One Grant. Dr. Pine has fostered advancement of both research and teaching through her active participation in numerous professional organizations, including The American Association of Veterinary Anatomists, the Society of Toxicology and the Society for Neuroscience.
College: Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences
Award Level: Teaching
Leonard
Pike
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Year Awarded: 1996
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Research
Donald
Piermattei
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Year Awarded: 1966
College: Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science
Award Level: Teaching
Kenneth
Pierce ’55
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Year Awarded: 1968
College: Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science
Award Level: Teaching
Clinton
Phillips
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Year Awarded: 1987
College: Administration
Award Level: Staff
Don
Phillips
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Year Awarded: 1990
College: Engineering
Award Level: Research
Timothy
Phillips
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Year Awarded: 1988
College: Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science
Award Level: Research
Timothy
Phillips
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Year Awarded: 2006
College: Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science
Award Level: Research
Jeanette
Phariss
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Year Awarded: 1983
College: Academic Affairs
Award Level: Staff
Jeanette
Phariss
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Year Awarded: 2003
College: Assistant Provost
Award Level: Administration
George
Peterson ’85
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Year Awarded: 1993
College: Engineering
Award Level: Teaching
David
Peterson
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Year Awarded: 2016
Dave Peterson, professor of biochemistry and biophysics, earned his Ph.D. in chemistry from Harvard University. He joined the faculty of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in 1981 after completing postdoctoral research at the University of California, San Francisco. In addition to teaching and maintaining a successful research program, Dr. Peterson serves as the associate department head for undergraduate programs. In this role, he led efforts to revise the Biochemistry and Genetics curricula and obtain accreditation for the B.S. in biochemistry from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Texas A&M is now one of only 38 universities to receive this recognition of the quality and rigor of its undergraduate program. His nominator says that as a teacher and mentor, Dr. Peterson is phenomenally successful. He has received numerous teaching and mentoring awards at Texas A&M, including the Wells Fargo Honors Student Faculty Mentor Award (twice) and The Association of Former Students College-Level Teaching Award (twice). This year, he won national recognition by receiving the Excellence in Advising Award from the National Academic Advising Association. A former student now in medical school described Dr. Peterson as “an outstanding educator and a long-term mentor.” Another student wrote, “One of the first people I encountered at Texas A&M University was Dr. David Peterson.… My first impression of this obviously brilliant scientist was how kind and helpful he was to all the nervous and confused freshman.… He said the same thing on that first day as he has said in every class I have had with him: if one person has a question, others do as well, so do not be afraid to ask.… He also adds some fun to the lecture; in the biochemistry class, he told us his favorite movie is Love Potion #9 because the biochemist gets the girl.”
College: College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Teaching
William
Perry
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Year Awarded: 1999
College: Executive VP and Provost
Award Level: Administration
John
Penson, Jr.
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Year Awarded: 1984
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Research
John
Penson, Jr.
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Year Awarded: 1992
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Teaching
John
Penson
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Year Awarded: 2011
Since Dr. John Penson joined the faculty in 1975, he has taught several courses at the undergraduate and graduate level, including teaching the department’s introductory course to more than 7,000 students. He has also provided teaching leadership by co-chairing the committee appointed by the deans of COALS and Mays Business School that developed our popular Agribusiness major and cochaired the joint committee to explore establishing the recently approved Ph.D. program in Agribusiness with the Mays Business School. A prolific author of textbooks and research publications, he has received many prestigious awards for research and teaching, including the national Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award from the American Agricultural Economics Association. He has advised seven students completing their senior honors thesis in the University Undergraduate Fellows Program and tutored the department’s Academic Quiz Bowl teams preparing for national competition. Dr. Penson served as technical advisor to the Bryan High School Federal Reserve Challenge Team, which won the national Federal Reserve Challenge championship multiple times. Internationally, he served as Visiting Foreign Distinguished Professor at Korea University, presented an invited short course at Japan’s Kyushu University, has taught in the joint Masters Program between TAMU and Universidad Del Valle De Guatemala the past 15 years, and has taught in similar programs in Ecuador and Nicaragua. He received the Outstanding Alumnus Award from Southern Illinois University and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southern Agricultural Economics Association.
One former student wrote, “The best learning tool that Dr. Penson implements in his class is the team concept of learning. Dr. Penson breaks his class into small groups to work on team projects that he assigns. This technique allows students to build relationships outside of class and learn from one another.”
Another former student wrote, “… I developed a significant interest in economics and its impact on agriculture as Dr. Penson took us through the first semester of our introductory class. His course had a great deal to do with the fact that I never once changed my major and graduated with a degree in Agribusiness in the fall of 2009.”
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Teaching