Katherine O'Brien
O'Keefe
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Year Awarded: 1986
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
Mary Ann
O'Farrell
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Year Awarded: 1997
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
Gerald
O'Donovan
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Year Awarded: 1973
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Teaching
Worth D.
Nowlin, Jr. ’57
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Year Awarded: 2002
College: Geosciences
Award Level: Research
Worth D.
Nowlin ’57
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Year Awarded: 1979
College: Geosciences
Award Level: Research
Mohamed
Nounou '95
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Year Awarded: 2012
Mohamed Nounou received his Ph.D. from the Ohio State University in 2000, after which he worked for two years in industry, served on the faculty of the United Arab Emirates University for four years, and joined the faculty of Texas A&M University at Qatar in 2006. During his five years on the TAMUQ faculty he has consistently received exceptional student evaluations that reflect the quality of his teaching.
Dr. Nounou is first and foremost an inspirational teacher. Students laud his unique ability to clearly present challenging engineering concepts. In the classroom, his spirited enthusiasm creates a stimulating atmosphere that makes learning both exciting and rewarding for his students. He routinely incorporates the results of his academic research into his courses, which allows his students to have front-row seats to observe the way his research unfolds. In addition, Dr. Nounou involves a number of his students in the research process, which has led to his mentoring several students through their own research projects. In fact, one of his former undergraduate students won the Richard E. Ewing Research Award for his work with Dr. Nounou, and is now continuing his graduate study at Stanford University.
Most importantly, Dr. Nounou is an outstanding role model for TAMUQ students. They can identify with his Middle Eastern heritage and view him as a person much like themselves who has achieved success in the international engineering community. He provides a fine example for them to emulate as they build their own careers.
Dr. Nounou is a truly valuable asset to the professional community in Qatar and the community of chemical engineering students, faculty, and professionals worldwide.
College: Texas A&M - Qatar
Award Level: Teaching
Donna
Norton
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Year Awarded: 1982
College: Education and Human Development
Award Level: Teaching
Gerald
North
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Year Awarded: 1993
College: Geosciences
Award Level: Research
Simon
North
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Year Awarded: 2009
College: College of Science
Award Level: Teaching
Claire
Nixon ’77
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Year Awarded: 1994
College: Business
Award Level: Teaching
John
Nielsen-Gammon
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Year Awarded: 1996
College: Geosciences
Award Level: Teaching
H. Joseph
Newton
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Year Awarded: 2005
College: Science
Award Level: Administration
Robert
Nevels
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Year Awarded: 2000
College: Engineering
Award Level: Teaching
Wendell
Nedderman ’49
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Year Awarded: 1959
College: Engineering
Award Level: Teaching
Donald
Naugle ’65
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Year Awarded: 2000
College: Science
Award Level: Teaching
Joseph
Natowitz
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Year Awarded: 1988
College: Science
Award Level: Research
Jack
Nation
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Year Awarded: 1995
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
William
Nash
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Year Awarded: 1988
College: Education and Human Development
Award Level: Extension/ Continuing Education
Krishna R.
Narayanan
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Year Awarded: 2018
Krishna Narayanan earned a bachelor’s from Coimbatore Institute of Technology, a master’s from Iowa State University and a doctorate from Georgia Institute of Technology. He joined the faculty of the College of Engineering in 1998 and is the holder of Eric D. Rubin ’06 Professorship. Dr. Narayanan has been an innovator in education, an inspiring and caring teacher to thousands of students at Texas A&M, and a personal mentor to several undergraduate and graduate students. In the last few years, he has distinguished himself as a passionate advocate of activities that enhance and personalize the educational experience of students at Texas A&M. His research interests are in coding theory, information theory, and signal processing with applications to wireless networks, data storage, and data science. He is passionate about technology-enabled teaching and innovative pedagogical approaches. Among his honors and awards are the National Science Foundation Career Award and the Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing for Data Storage Technical Committee, recognizing his work on soft decision decoding of Reed Solomon codes. He was elected a Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to coding for wireless communications and data storage, and he serves as an editor for coding techniques for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. He was elected to the board of governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 2015. He has also received the Professional Progress in Engineering Award given each year to one outstanding alumnus of Iowa State University who is under the age of 44. In addition, The Association of Former Students College-Level Award in Teaching, and a Dean’s Excellence Award from the College of Engineering.
College: Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Award Level: Teaching
Syed
Naqi ’67
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Year Awarded: 1981
College: Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science
Award Level: Teaching
Jeffrey
Musser
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Year Awarded: 2016
Jeffrey Musser, clinical professor in the Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, earned his D.V.M. from Virginia Tech and his Ph.D. in pharmacology from North Carolina State. He joined the faculty of the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in 2000. Dr. Musser teaches in the undergraduate, graduate, and professional curriculums and has been training the next generation of professionals and scientists for more than 15 years. The emphasis of his teaching and research is the development of the clinician scientist, which is undergraduate and professional students continuing on to graduate programs and research experiences. Dr. Musser teaches both here and abroad and was instrumental in the development of the Texas A&M University Costa Rica Biomedical Science Semester Abroad Program and the BIMS Germany Summer Abroad Program. He has developed many new undergraduate and professional/graduate courses, mentored more than 30 Texas A&M students in independent research projects, mentored international faculty in curriculum development and teaching skills, and been invited to serve as an external evaluator, examiner, and thesis reviewer at many international universities. Among his awards and honors, Dr. Musser has been a recipient of The Association of Former Students College-Level Teaching Award, the Montague-CTE Scholar Award, and the Zoetis Distinguished Veterinary Teacher Award. His nominator describes his teaching style as passionate, compassionate, personal, creative, animated and indefatigable. A former student describes him as an extraordinary professor who “ignites a passion for learning in his students that they were unaware they possessed.” Another former student describes him as a superior teacher who “instills in his students the knowledge and desire necessary to thrive in both the classroom and life.”
College: College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Award Level: Teaching
Henry
Musoma '00
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Year Awarded: 2017
A native of Zambia, Henry Musoma is assistant director of the Center for International Business Studies (CIBS). After earning his doctorate in educational leadership at Texas Christian University, he joined the faculty of the Mays Business School in 2012. His nominator wrote, “His students are inspired by him to make a positive difference, and Dr. Musoma, himself, personifies his oft-repeated exhortation: ‘You can count the number of seeds in an orange, but you can never count the number of oranges in a seed.’ If the seeds in the orange represent the number of students Henry has served and influenced, that number may be nearly uncountable; but the good work those students are inspired to accomplish (the oranges in the seed) is so vast as to be beyond measure.” In addition to his duties with CIBS, his supporters say that Dr. Musoma helps students internalize a vision of who and what they can be by helping them raise their vision beyond the immediate. He inspires students to be better people. As one former student put it, “Dr. Musoma cares…about helping students discover themselves and to become extraordinary people in life.” He models what he envisions for his students. By being generous with his time, story and resources; he helps students see what is possible. He creates opportunities. A good example is the annual trip to Africa. Each year, Dr. Musoma creates a life-changing opportunity for Regents Scholars and convinced leaders at Philip’s 66 to fund the trip. The result is a two-week international experience for students who would not otherwise be able to travel ? including many who have never left Texas. And, he listens ? witness the continual flow of students to his office. These are not just students in his classes, they are also students who hear him speak in other venues and believe he is someone with whom they can connect.
College: Center of International Business Studies
Award Level: Student Relations
Robert
Murray, Jr. ’43
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Year Awarded: 1962
College: Staff
Award Level: Student Relations
Michael D.
Murphy ’61
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Year Awarded: 2005
College: Architecture
Award Level: Teaching
William
Murphy
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Year Awarded: 2010
College: College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Award Level: Research
Steven
Murdock
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Year Awarded: 1994
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Research
John
Mullet
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Year Awarded: 1993
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Research
Saqib
Mukhtar
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Year Awarded: 2013
Saqib Mukhtar earned his Ph.D. from Iowa State University. He has been with Texas A&M for more than 14 years. He carries multiple titles, but chief among them is extension agricultural engineer. Dr. Mukhtar is renowned for his contributions in extension education, technology transfer and research to reduce the air and water quality impacts of manure and wastewater from animal feeding operations. Since 1998, his efforts have received $15 million in grant support. He has 156 publications, which are referenced by producers, technicians, engineers, and scientists worldwide. In fact, his publications on proper lagoon closure, animal mortality management, and managing odors and dust are part of the guidance provided by Texas and other states to help poultry and livestock operations meet regulatory requirements.
Dr. Mukhtar and colleagues developed the first-ever annual emission factors (EFs) regarding ammonia from dairies in the southwestern United States. Producers use these EFs to meet federal reporting rules. Dr. Mukhtar has served on expert panels regarding ammonia emissions control for the National Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy, the National Dairy Air Quality Taskforce, and the Oregon Dairy Air Quality Taskforce. He was early adopter of eXtension, a national online learning environment in which he helped establish the Livestock and Poultry Environmental Learning Center in 2008. In 2011, Dr. Mukhtar and several other university leaders working with the center received an eXtension team award for Outstanding Community of Practice. Dr. Mukhtar speaks often at livestock and poultry industry conferences, including keynote addresses or consultations in Brazil, El Salvador and Pakistan. He has earned the AgriLife Extension Superior Service Award and the G.B. Gunlogson Countryside Engineering Award from the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.
College: Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering
Award Level: Extension, Outreach, Continuing Ed. and Prof. Dev.
John
Morse
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Year Awarded: 2000
College: Geosciences
Award Level: Research