Norma
Arizpe
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Year Awarded: 2018
Norma Arizpe was born in Donna, Texas, a small community in the Rio Grande Valley near the U.S./Mexico border. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Pan American University in nearby Edinburg, Texas (now part of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley), and a master’s degree from the University of Michigan. Teaching has always been part of her being. Early in her career she was a junior high school teacher in the Donna ISD as well as an English-as-a-second-language (ESL) instructor in San Juan, Texas, and Detroit, Michigan. Her first job at Texas A&M was as an ESL instructor in the English Language Institute before becoming a member of the Department of Hispanic Studies (then known as the Department of Modern & Classical Languages), where she started out as a Spanish lecturer. Based on the merits of her outstanding performance in the classroom, she soon earned promotion to senior lecturer. In Hispanic Studies, Ms. Arizpe teaches undergraduate courses in first and second-year Spanish and many 300-level courses. Over the last few years, she created three courses in medical Spanish in conjunction with the Texas A&M Health Science Center (HSC); Medical Spanish is now firmly embedded into the HSC’s curricular offerings. These courses have been a huge success, and mirror the achievement Ms. Arizpe has found throughout her career as an instructor. She has been honored for her commitment to teaching as a Fish Camp namesake in 1992 and as a T-Camp namesake in 1996. In addition, she was chosen to lead planning for the “¡Siempre! 130 years of Hispanics at Texas A&M” exhibit housed in the Cushing Library and was selected for The Association of Former Students College-Level Distinguished Award in Teaching in 2009.
College: Department of Hispanic Studies
Award Level: Teaching
Victor
Arizpe
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Year Awarded: 1990
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
David
Armstrong
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Year Awarded: 1991
College: Education and Human Development
Award Level: Teaching
Robert
Armstrong
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Year Awarded: 1999
College: Education and Human Development
Award Level: Research
Richard
Arnowitt
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Year Awarded: 1997
College: Science
Award Level: Research
John
August
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Year Awarded: 1994
College: Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science
Award Level: Administration
James A.
Aune
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Year Awarded: 2003
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
Scott
Austin
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Year Awarded: 1995
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
Imadel
Bachus
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Year Awarded: 1980
College: Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science
Award Level: Student Relations
Alexandru
Balaban
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Year Awarded: 2007
Alexandru T. Balaban was born in Romania, where he taught organic chemistry for 40 years. He began collaborating with scientists at Texas A&M University in Galveston in 1991, and became a tenured professor here in 2000. For three years he was a Senior Research Scientist at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna for radio-pharmaceuticals. Dr. Balaban’s scientific achievements include the discovery of a new synthesis of pyrylium salts by diacylation of alkenes (the Balaban-Nenitzescu-Praill reaction), a new syntheses of oxazoles and indolizines, demonstration of the catalytic automerization (a term Dr. Balaban coined) of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, the development of new donors of nitric oxide, and the introduction of new molecular descriptors(one of which is known as the Balaban topological index, used for molecular modeling). Dr. Balaban edited the first book on the chemical applications of graph theory, and he published his studies on graph-theoretical characteristics that predicted the structure of fullerene cages, and predicted the existence of graphitic cones before they were observed.
Dr. Balaban is the author/coauthor of 700 research papers (peer-reviewed journals), 60 chapters (edited books), and 16 authored or edited books. He is a member of Academies in Romania and Hungary, and is on the editorial board of over 10 scientific journals.
College: Marine Sciences (TAMUG)
Award Level: Research
Perla B.
Balbuena
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Year Awarded: 2018
Perla B. Balbuena earned a bachelor’s degree from the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Argentina, a master’s from the University of Pennsylvania, and a doctorate from the University of Texas. She joined the faculty of the College of Engineering in 2004 as a Professor of Chemical Engineering with joint appointments in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and in the Department of Chemistry. Previously, she was a faculty member in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of South Carolina. Her research focuses on the first principles analysis and characterization of materials for catalysis, separations, and energy storage and conversion. She has published more than 250 scientific papers in her field of research and has an h-index of 53 with more than 10,000 citations according to Google Scholar. Dr. Balbuena’s research is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Vehicle Technologies Office (Battery Materials Research), by the Catalysis Division of Basic Energy Sciences, and by Qatar Environment & Energy Research Institute. Among her awards, she has received a CAREER from the National Science Foundation and a Young Investigator Award from the University of South Carolina. She has twice been named a TEES Fellow and once named a TEES Senior Fellow. In 2013, she was elected an AAAS Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science “for distinguished contributions to the theory of interfacial processes, through molecular simulation of electrochemical reactions and materials properties at the nanoscale.”
College: Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering
Award Level: Research
Badi H.
Baltagi
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Year Awarded: 2002
College: Business
Award Level: Research
Murray
Barrick
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Year Awarded: 2013
Murray Barrick earned his B.A. from the University of Northern Iowa and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Akron. He joined Mays Business School in 2006 where he holds the Robertson Chair and teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. His research focuses on the impact individual differences in behavior and personality have on job performance and on methods of measuring and predicting such differences. He received the Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award from the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and has been recognized as the 5th most published author in Journal of Applied Psychology and Personnel Psychology. Dr. Barrick is a Fellow of the Academy of Management and of SIOP and serves as chair of the HR Division of the Academy of Management.
Dr. Barrick’s pioneering work in the area of personality has had landmark implications and influence. His path-breaking article, coauthored with M.K. Mount, provided both a new conceptual framework for understanding how certain personality traits predict performance and empirical evidence to support that framework. Specifically, the authors unequivocally demonstrated its potential significance to both theory and research, as well as to the practice of management. Here are some reviewer comments. “Murray Barrick is among the few scholars who have shown that personality can be quite strongly related to employee’s attitudes and behaviors. . . . Murray’s record shines not only for its importance and quality, but also for its consistency.” “. . . his scientific contribution has been nothing short of remarkable.” And “. . . Murray Barrick has been a pivotal figure in the field’s renewed interest in personality.”
Dr. Barrick continues to publish in the top journals and, indeed, his rate of publication has actually increased over the past five years.
College: Department of Management
Award Level: Research
Mary Sandra
Barringer '90
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Year Awarded: 1995
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Student Relations
Luciana R.
Barroso
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Year Awarded: 2008
Luciana Barroso holds BA. and B.S. degrees from Rice University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University. She joined the Texas A&M faculty in the fall of 1999. Her teaching talent and mentoring has been recognized both by her department and nationally; she has received the 2003 Zachry Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Department of Civil Engineering as well as the 2003 ExCEEd New Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award for Zone III from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). As one colleague states, “Dr. Barroso is regarded as someone who demonstrates “impressive skill, dedication and commitment to her students learning.” She has taught 11 different courses while at Texas A&M University and is constantly trying to refine and improve those courses. Her research interests have also expanded to include engineering education.
Dr. Barroso is known in the department as someone who will challenge her students to exceed their expectations and to actually understand the course material rather than “just get through it.” As one student states “while this is a notoriously difficult course in our department, with instruction and support from Dr. Barroso, I not only survived it, I thrived in it.” Another student declared that “one of the most important components to successfully completing the course is the availability of Dr. Barroso and her wonderfully structured and organized teaching style. She provided a really welcoming atmosphere where we could all work together.” Dr. Barroso is highly regarded both in and out of the classroom due to her dedication to her role as both teacher and mentor.
College: Engineering
Award Level: Teaching
Claudia
Barton
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Year Awarded: 1982
College: Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science
Award Level: Teaching
Claudia
Barton
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Year Awarded: 1988
College: Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science
Award Level: Extension/ Continuing Education
Claudia
Barton
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Year Awarded: 2006
College: Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science
Award Level: Teaching
Richard
Bartoskewitz
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Year Awarded: 2007
Richard E. Bartoskewitz, a native of San Antonio, Texas, received his B.S. in civil engineering in 1969 from Texas A&M University. After receiving his M.S. in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M in 1970, he worked for the Texas Transportation Institute. His research interests were in the area of soil-structure interaction, with emphasis on deep foundations for highway bridges and soil pressures on earth-retaining structures and culverts. In 1973, he began teaching for the Civil Engineering Department, and in 1992 was assigned to his current position of Senior Academic Advisor in the undergraduate office.
In 1999, Mr. Bartoskewitz was selected as a T-Camp namesake. He received an Outstanding Staff award in 2002, and currently volunteers as the Academic Mentor for Company E-2 in the Corps of Cadets. He was selected as an Outstanding Academic Volunteer by the Corps of Cadets in 2006. He and his wife, Polly, have two children: a son Rick ’92 and a daughter Laura ’95, and two grandchildren, future Aggies, Jacob ’23 and Caleb ’25.
College: Engineering
Award Level: Student Relations
George
Bass
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Year Awarded: 1984
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Research
Horace
Bass
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Year Awarded: 1960
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
William
Bassichis
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Year Awarded: 1978
College: Science
Award Level: Teaching
Raymond
Battalio
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Year Awarded: 1985
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Research
James
Batteas
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Year Awarded: 2017
James Batteas, professor of chemistry and materials science and engineering, joined the Texas A&M faculty in 2005. He earned his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley. An author of nearly 100 publications, Dr. Batteas is an expert in materials chemistry of surfaces and interfaces, with research covering a broad range of fundamental surface and interfacial problems, including designing materials to harness energy and to control energy losses by reducing friction in machined interfaces, through studies of friction at the atomic scale. He teaches courses in physical and analytical chemistry at the undergraduate and graduate levels and has been involved in a number of educational innovations, including the complete revision of the physical chemistry lab curriculum where he developed a new laboratory module on scanning tunneling microscopy, designed to engage students in cutting edge research techniques while introducing and reinforcing topics in physical chemistry, quantum mechanics, solid state chemistry, and the electronic structure of molecules and materials. In his 11 years at Texas A&M, he has trained and graduated 11 Ph.D. students, 3 master’s students, and sponsored 22 undergraduates on research projects in his lab. Most recently, he developed a week-long course on Nanotechnology, offered as part of the Texas A&M University Youth Adventure Program, to engage 7th – 10th grade students in STEM. A former student wrote that “his demonstrated teaching excellence and love for chemistry has been the catalyst for many students . . . to explore the exciting world of Nanoscience. A current student commented, “This being an 8 A.M. class, I thought it’d be harder to stay awake and absorb information. Thanks to Dr. Batteas and his enthusiasm, I never found myself falling asleep and I was easily able to stay focused in class.”
College: Department of Chemistry
Award Level: Teaching
Thomas
Baxter
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Year Awarded: 1996
College: Rudder Theater Complex
Award Level: Staff
Garland
Bayliss
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Year Awarded: 1978
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Student Relations
Fuller
Bazer
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Year Awarded: 2000
College: Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science
Award Level: Research
James
Beard
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Year Awarded: 1987
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Research