Vaughn
Bryant, Jr.
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Year Awarded: 1990
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Administration
Dragomir
Bukur
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Year Awarded: 1994
College: Engineering
Award Level: Research
Kevin
Burgess
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Year Awarded: 2010
College: College of Science
Award Level: Research
Forrest
Burt
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Year Awarded: 1991
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
Paul S.
Busch
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Year Awarded: 2008
Paul Busch, Professor of Marketing, joined the Texas A&M faculty in 1986 as the Head, Department of Marketing, serving for 10 years. He was a 2002 Fish Camp namesake and received The Association of Formers Students College-Level Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching in 2007. Paul’s innovative teaching is evidenced by his incorporation of the StrengthsFinder program into his courses. This is a program that provides students and staff with the opportunity to discover natural talents and to gain insights into the development and utilization of those talents. Paul has also taught in the Executive MBA program since its inception in 2000.
A former Master’s degree student says: “His presence commanded the attention and the respect of every person in the room, yet his heart shined with compassion and caring making him easy to approach, ask questions of, or reach out to.” A former Ph.D. student comments: “I have adopted his style of preparation in my teaching, and have won numerous Excellence in Teaching awards as a result. Dr. Busch is the reason why I attended Texas A&M University, and the major reason why I earned my Ph.D. and entered the teaching profession myself.”
College: Business
Award Level: Teaching
Karen
Butler-Purry
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Year Awarded: 2005
College: Engineering
Award Level: Student Relations
Glenda
Byrns'07
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Year Awarded: 2018
Glenda Byrns earned both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from Southwest Texas State University and a doctorate from Texas A&M University. She joined the faculty of the College of Education and Human Development in 2005. Dr. Byrns has served in leadership capacities at the department and college level. As the program coordinator for the Undergraduate Special Education (SPED) Program, Dr. Byrns coordinated a state-mandated degree plan revision that required realignment of courses. When serving as the college’s coordinator for educator preparation, she authored the differential tuition for undergraduate teacher preparation proposal that helped to fund scholarships, travel-abroad programs, and supervision for students in field-based experiences. Additionally, she facilitated the collection and organization of data for accreditation. Currently, she serves as the Special Education Division Chair and as the associate department head for academic affairs in the Department of Educational Psychology. Dr. Byrns teaches undergraduate- and graduate-level courses in both face-to-face and online formats. SPED 630, a synchronous distance education course that Dr. Byrns teaches, has received Quality Matters (QM) designation. Additionally, Dr. Byrns has been recognized as a Texas A&M Exemplary Distance Educator. Every semester, she takes undergraduate SPED students to a day-long internship in a large urban school district where they engage with students and teachers and observe educational supports. To advance the use of technology in classroom settings, Dr. Byrns distributes iPads to students in upper-level SPED courses. Additionally, she developed iBooks for students’ use in flipped classes. Dr. Byrns received the Student Led Award for Teaching Excellence and was a Howdy Camp namesake.
College: Department of Educational Psychology
Award Level: Teaching
Garland Hampton
Cannon
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Year Awarded: 1972
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Research
Oral
Capps
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Year Awarded: 2015
Oral Capps, Jr., Regents Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics, earned his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech. After stints teaching at Virginia Tech and the University of Minnesota, he joined the faculty of the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences in 1986. He is nationally recognized for his scholarship in demand analysis, econometric modeling, and forecasting methodology with large data sets. But, the students in the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences recognize him as one of the best teachers at Texas A&M University. As a leader in agricultural economics, Dr. Capps works closely with professional organizations in the food-producing industries. The major upside of all these connections is his ability to bring real world scenarios to the classroom and show students the most current industry developments. Dr. Capps has been a master teacher and superb mentor to undergraduate and graduate students during his almost 30 years at Texas A&M. He has taught more than 90 sections in 7 subject matter areas to approximately 6,000 students! Most students are familiar with Dr. Capps as the teacher for Introductory Agricultural Economics. He volunteered to teach this large course because he understands how critical the course is to freshmen students. His passion for the course led him to write an Introduction to Agricultural Economics textbook, which is now in its sixth edition. In the classroom, Dr. Capps brings lecture material to life, helping students to remember and apply the concepts discussed. A supporter says students leaving Dr. Capps’ class possess “knowledge they can leverage in their future careers and lives.” His nominators sum up, saying that an excellent teacher brings out the best in students. Dr. Capps cares about them as individuals, their learning, and their future success. He is an “amazing teacher and true friend of the students.”
College: College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Teaching
Oral
Capps, Jr.
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Year Awarded: 1995
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Teaching
David
Carlson
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Year Awarded: 1992
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
Leland
Carlson
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Year Awarded: 2008
Lee Carlson joined the Aerospace Engineering Department of Texas A&M in 1969. In addition to teaching and research, he has served as Assistant and then Associate Dean of Engineering from 1981 thru 1984, and as Undergraduate Advisor and Director of Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering Programs from 1996 until 2004. Dr. Carlson is widely recognized for his research on transonic airfoil design methods and high altitude entry vehicle flow fields. He is a Fellow in both the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the American Society of Engineering Education.
Dr. Carlson’s first love, however, has always been teaching. In the endorsement letters, one individual wrote, “His passion for teaching is unparalleled…In the classroom he is exceedingly articulate and inexhaustibly energetic…It is not uncommon to find him helping students with challenging assignments beyond the hours expected of even the best professors.” Another wrote, “He puts in many extra hours preparing course materials as well as interacting with students. His classroom demeanor is that of a teacher who truly cares, and his door is always open…I have never known a professor who could so easily keep my attention and show the importance of the subject matter…He brings real-world applications into the learning environment.” Finally a colleague said of him, “His teaching style is really quite simple: Take teaching seriously, be prepared, create a classroom climate where students want to learn, expect the best of students, encourage classroom participation, and make the course content interesting and relevant to engineering practice.”
College: Engineering
Award Level: Teaching
Leland
Carlson
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Year Awarded: 1987
College: Engineering
Award Level: Teaching
Zerle
Carpenter
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Year Awarded: 1970
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Teaching
Megan
Carpenter
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Year Awarded: 2016
Megan Carpenter is a professor of law and one of the original faculty members of the Texas A&M School of Law, as well as the founding director of the Center for Law and Intellectual Property (CLIP), which has become a flagship program of the law school. She previously served on the faculty of the Texas Wesleyan University law school and in private practice. She earned an M.S. and a J.D. from West Virginia University and an LL.M. from the National University of Ireland. She is a nationally known expert in intellectual property with particular interest in entrepreneurship and the arts. She chairs the Academic Committee of the International Trademark Association and the Law and Entrepreneurship Special Interest Group for the United States Association for Small Business & Entrepreneurship (USASBE). Her nominators wrote that she is committed to the students’ learning and professional development beyond the classroom. She has been instrumental in providing students with hands-on experience by creating legal clinics that enable students to practice intellectual property and business law on behalf of actual clients, including collaborations with student entrepreneurs and inventors at Startup Aggieland on the campus in College Station. This is the first full-service clinic in legal education to cater particularly to a university’s own student entrepreneurs. Professor Carpenter has also established a mentoring program, called Need to Know, in which she encourages law students to conduct workshops that educate underserved segments of the community on relevant legal issues. This program has been a valuable way for students to develop their expertise as future professionals and share the knowledge they have gained in law school while serving the larger community. To date, students have educated more than 1,000 entrepreneurs, artists, and musicians.
College: School of Law
Award Level: Graduate Mentoring
Kevin
Carreathers
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Year Awarded: 1991
College: Multicultural Services
Award Level: Student Relations
Raymond J.
Carroll
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Year Awarded: 1994
College: Science
Award Level: Research
Raymond J.
Carroll
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Year Awarded: 2004
College: Science
Award Level: Research
George
Carter
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Year Awarded: 1978
College: Geosciences
Award Level: Research
George
Carter
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Year Awarded: 1972
College: Geosciences
Award Level: Teaching
Neville
Carter
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Year Awarded: 1984
College: Science
Award Level: Research
Tammi
Caskey
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Year Awarded: 1993
College: Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science
Award Level: Staff
Lavelle
Castle
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Year Awarded: 1965
College: Staff
Award Level: Student Relations
Pierre J.
Catala
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Year Awarded: 2002
College: Engineering
Award Level: Teaching
James C.
Cathey '91
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Year Awarded: 2015
James Cathey earned his Ph.D. from Texas Tech University. Chief among his many roles is extension wildlife specialist for the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service—a role he fulfills as associate professor and associate department head in the Department of Wildlife & Fisheries Sciences. He joined the department in 2002 and AgriLife Extension in 2005. He has authored 68 publication and fostered development of many social media outlets. He provides expertise to Texas landowners, agricultural producers, and county extension agents in 71 counties, often about grassland restoration, northern bobwhite, wild pigs, Rio Grande wild turkey, and urban deer. He is a member of the Wildlife Society and past president of the Texas chapter. He has been Texas Wildlife Association director since 2008 and serves as an instructor for education events in its Conservation Legacy program. Dr. Cathey provides leadership to the Texas Master Naturalists program, which has received several national and state awards. His technical articles have been recognized by the Texas Section of the Society of Range Management and the Texas Chapter of the Wildlife Society, while his teamwork earned the 2014 national extension “Working Differently in Extension” award for achievements of the Feral Hogg Community of Practice. His nominator says Dr. Cathey is “energetic, personable, highly motivated, and committed to excellence,” and an “exemplary extension educator with exceptional mastery of wildlife science, outstanding communication skills, extraordinary productivity, resilient team leadership, and commitment to outreach education.” A supporter credits his leadership for the success of the state’s award-winning “rainwater harvesting task force.” Another supporter concludes, “…the impact of his vision, innovative strategies, and accomplishments is seen now and will continue in the years to come from the next generation of landowners and natural resource professionals he has prepared and empowered to ‘carry the torch.’”
College: College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Extension, Outreach, Continuing Ed, & Prof Dev
Jerald A.
Caton
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Year Awarded: 2008
Professor Caton has been teaching at TAMU since September 1979 in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He teaches in the areas of thermodynamics, heat transfer and fluid mechanics with applications concerning engines and power plants. Over this period of time, Professor Caton has continued to strive to be a more effective instructor, to share his passion for these subjects, and to motivate his students. He is highly regarded by his students, and his evaluations reflect his conscientious and rigorous teaching style. Comments typically made by his students are that Professor Caton is well-organized, enthusiastic, and knows his material. Some students rate him highly even though they note that his grading is uncommonly strict. A Fellow of both ASME and SAE, he manages to blend results from his research with the subject material to both illustrate relevance and to provide motivation, and his student appreciate the helpfulness of the “real-world” examples.
Professor Caton is a leader who has developed new courses, teaches undergraduates well, mentors graduate students and junior faculty, and excels with nationally important research and study. He is an award-winner who has received the Society of Automotive Engineers national Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award (1990) and the departmental Peggy L. and Charles L. Brittan (’65) Teaching Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching (2000).
College: Engineering
Award Level: Teaching
Thomas
Champney
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Year Awarded: 1997
College: Medicine
Award Level: Teaching
Ping
Chang
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Year Awarded: 2003
College: Geosciences
Award Level: Research