John L.
Hogg
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Year Awarded: 1989
College: Science
Award Level: Student Relations
Leon
Holbert
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Year Awarded: 1969
College: Engineering
Award Level: Extension/ Continuing Education
Edwin
Holdredge
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Year Awarded: 1961
College: Engineering
Award Level: Teaching
Charles Donald
Holland
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Year Awarded: 1956
College: Engineering
Award Level: Research
James
Holste
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Year Awarded: 1988
College: Engineering
Award Level: Research
Ethan
Holt
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Year Awarded: 1970
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Research
Mark
Holtzapple
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Year Awarded: 1991
College: Engineering
Award Level: Teaching
Mark T.
Holtzapple
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Year Awarded: 2018
Mark Holtzapple earned a bachelor’s from Cornell University and a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania. After his formal education, he served at the U.S. Army Natick R&D Center where he developed miniature air-conditioning systems to cool soldiers encapsulated in chemical protective clothing. After retiring from the Army as a captain, he joined the faculty of the College of Engineering in 1986. A passionate teacher, his teaching awards include: Faculty of the Year, First Year Faculty Fellow, the Fluor Distinguished Teaching Award, Professor of the Year, the Corps of Cadets Teaching Award, the Tenneco Meritorious Teaching Award, the Dow Excellence in Teaching Award for Tenured Faculty, the General Dynamics Excellence in Teaching Award, and The Association of Former Students University- and College-Level Distinguished Achievement Awards in Teaching. A gifted researcher, Dr. Holtzapple focuses on technologies that enhance sustainability, such as biomass conversion to fuels and chemicals, high-efficiency engines, and water desalination. For his research, Dr. Holtzapple has received national and international recognition, including the Odebrecht Award for Sustainable Development, the Walston Chubb Award for Innovation, the McGraw-Hill Environmental Champion Award, and the President's Green Chemistry Challenge Award, which was awarded by the president and vice president of the United States. To commercialize his technologies, the following start-up companies have been formed: Terrabon, Earth Energy Renewables, StarRotor, CaliRotor (China), Theion, Cascade, and OF Water. Dr. Holtzapple infuses his real-world experience and entrepreneurial spirit into his classrooms and laboratories.
College: Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering
Award Level: Teaching
Clifford M.
Honnas
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Year Awarded: 2004
College: Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science
Award Level: Student Relations
Sewell
Hopkins
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Year Awarded: 1957
College: Science
Award Level: Research
Lisa M.
Howe
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Year Awarded: 2002
College: Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science
Award Level: Teaching
Frank
Hubert
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Year Awarded: 1978
College: Education and Human Development
Award Level: Staff
Jan
Hughes
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Year Awarded: 2010
College: College of Education and Human Development
Award Level: Research
Jon F.
Hunter
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Year Awarded: 2006
College: Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science
Award Level: Teaching
Cynthia
Hurt
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Year Awarded: 2014
Cynthia “Cindy” Hurt came to Texas A&M in 1983 and joined the staff of Department of Anthropology in 2004. She has 23 years of experience at Texas A&M University. She earned an associate’s degree from Blinn College and is a Certified Administrative Professional.
Her nominator describes Ms. Hurt as the go-to person for the department’s faculty, staff and students. As assistant to the department head “she wears a lot of hats and actually does much more than her title suggests.” She is the Human Resources Liaison handling all employment, payroll, and personnel matters for 24 faculty, 3 staff and more than 40 graduate and undergraduate student employees. She is the building proctor, maintaining the department’s facilities, including more than 15 scientific research and teaching labs. She is the facilities and equipment manager, administering keys and maintaining the department’s equipment inventory. She is the department’s office manager, supervising two full-time staff and four part-time student workers. She is the visiting scholar facilitator, administering campus visits of invited lecturers, faculty job candidates, Fulbright Fellows, etc. She is the student scholarship, fellowship, and assistantship administrator, chronicling graduate student eligibility for assistantships, processing graduate student tuition waivers, posting scholarships, and facilitating graduate assistantship assignments. She is the travel and purchasing manager, reviewing and approving faculty, student, and staff travel and significant equipment purchases. Finally, she is assistant to the department head, maintaining the department’s budget and gathering and analyzing data to be used in annual reports to the dean. He concludes saying, “My head spins every time I think about Ms. Hurt’s various roles in the department. She’s the glue that holds not just the department office together, but the whole department—its faculty, staff and students.”
College: College of Liberal Arts
Award Level: Staff
F. Russell
Huson
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Year Awarded: 1990
College: Science
Award Level: Research
Mark A.
Hussey '79
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Year Awarded: 2017
Dr. Mark Hussey’s 34-year career at Texas A&M University began as a graduate student and has brought him to the top of the organization. After earning his master’s then Ph.D. in plant breeding, he was a faculty member and later head of the department of soil and crop sciences. He was later named director of Texas A&M AgriLife Research. In 2008, he was appointed vice chancellor and dean for agriculture and life sciences, and in 2014, he went to Texas A&M University as interim president. In May 2015, Dr. Hussey returned to be vice chancellor and dean, where he leads the college’s 300+ faculty and nearly 8,000 students. He also oversees The Texas A&M University System’s four agricultural agencies: Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, Texas A&M Forest Service, and Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory, as well as the University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. A visionary and dedicated servant leader, Dr. Hussey has managed the creation of an unprecedented construction campaign that makes the west campus home to 13 of 14 academic departments. It includes the multi-million dollar agriculture and life sciences complex on the Texas A&M University campus, providing the first-of-its-kind headquarters for Texas A&M AgriLife. Additionally, he created the vision and raised more than $6 million dollars to build the first phase of The Gardens at Texas A&M University, a unique and beautiful outdoor classroom for Aggies and the community. He also initiated the AgriLife Advanced Leadership Program, which provides leadership training for AgriLife faculty leaders in the making. He is an advocate for the land-grant university system of research, teaching and extension, holding national leadership positions in the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities.
College: College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Administration
Thomas
Iliffe
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Year Awarded: 2013
Thomas Iliffe has been a member of the faculty at Texas A&M University at Galveston for 23 years. He earned a B.S. in biochemistry from Penn State University, an M.S. in oceanography from Florida State University and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Texas Medical Branch. Before coming to Texas A&M, he served for 11 years as a research associate at the Bermuda Biological Station. He currently teaches graduate and undergraduate marine biology courses, including Biospeleology (cave biology), Introduction to Scientific Diving, Methods in Research Diving, and Tropical Marine Ecology. All are courses he independently developed. The Tropical Marine Ecology class is approved as a study abroad program and has been taught each of the past 12 summers in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico.
Dr. Iliffe’s teaching comes from his own educational experiences. A diving-based course gave him the opportunity to investigate a coral reef ecosystem firsthand. This experience and his participation in the U.S. Navy’s Scientist in the Sea training program led him to develop the Scientific Diver training program that he has taught for the past 20 years. Dr. Iliffe also brings his research on the biology of submarine to his courses. He believes that high-impact field experiences give his students unforgettable memories and life skills for teamwork and the confidence to accomplish things they thought were impossible.
It’s not an exaggeration to say that Thomas Iliffe has influenced millions of people worldwide as well as students at A&M. His exploits have been featured as a cover story in the National Geographic magazine and on television programs produced by National Geographic, the Discovery Channel, PBS, the History Channel and a variety of international public broadcasting networks. He truly represents the finest qualities of Texas A&M faculty to people around the world.
College: Texas A&M University at Galveston
Award Level: Teaching
Brian
Imhoff
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Year Awarded: 2006
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
Karin
Ippen-Ihler
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Year Awarded: 1986
College: Medicine
Award Level: Research
R. Duane
Ireland
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Year Awarded: 2012
Duane Ireland joined the faculty of Texas A&M’s Mays Business School in July 2005 and holds the Conn Chair in New Ventures Leadership. He earned his Ph.D. from Texas Tech University. He has authored or co-authored more than 20 books and published more than 90 articles in journals, such as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Executive, Strategic Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Decision Sciences, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practices, and the Journal of Business Venturing.
Dr. Ireland is one of the premier scholarly contributors in strategy, entrepreneurship, and management. In fact, his research has been instrumental in creating the field of strategic entrepreneurship. Through his research, he has highlighted the crucial relationships between privatization, globalization, and corporate entrepreneurship and spurred the launch of a new journal dedicated to the study of these topics, the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.
He is the Vice-President Elect and Program Chair of the Academy of Management, a world-wide association with close to 20,000 members. Previously, he served as a member of the Academy’s Board of Governors, as a member of its Executive Committee, and as Secretary of its Business Policy and Strategy Division. He recently completed service as the Editor of the Academy of Management Journal and also has served as an Associate Editor for Academy of Management Journal and for the Academy of Management Executive and as a Consulting Editor for Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.
He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management, a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society, a Research Fellow in the Global Entrepreneurship Consortium, and a Falcone Fellow in Entrepreneurship. He has been a frequently invited participant for doctoral and new faculty consortia for the Business Policy and Strategy and Entrepreneurship Divisions of the Academy of Management.
College: Mays Business School
Award Level: Research
George A.
Jackson
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Year Awarded: 2004
College: Geosciences
Award Level: Research
Timothy
Jacobs
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Year Awarded: 2012
Timothy Jacobs earned his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2005 and joined the faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the Dwight Look College of Engineering in September 2006. His teaching interests include thermodynamics, internal combustion engines, and experimental methods. He is currently involved in a major redesign of the content and structure for the first course on thermodynamics that will improve students’ understanding of entropy and available energy.
Dr. Jacobs is the recipient of numerous teaching and research awards, including the Montague/CTE Scholars Award, the John Weese Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Texas A&M Chapter of Pi Tau Sigma, the Peggy L. and Charles L. Brittan Teaching Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching, and the Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award from SAE International.
Dr. Jacob’s effectiveness as a teacher is driven by the three pillars of his teaching philosophy: clear, organized lectures that forge a professional atmosphere between educator and students; linking concepts and applications that enable career-long retention; and modeling techniques and strategies for learning that help students become life-long learners.
In testament to his dedication, one of his students writes, “He is the most organized, well-spoken, knowledgeable, and personable professors I have come in contact with thus far at A&M. His teaching methods are beyond what any student will expect and the structure of our class was unbeatable. He is truly a wonderful professor who is very concerned with his students learning the materials.” Another student writes, “Excellent professor, always open to questions and deeply cares that his students are learning and enjoying the material. I feel like I learned and retained the most than from any course I have taken.”
His nominator concludes that he is looking forward to Dr. Jacobs’ continued development as an educator and a scholar.
College: Engineering
Award Level: Teaching
Laurie
Jaeger
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Year Awarded: 2001
College: Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science
Award Level: Teaching
Robert
James
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Year Awarded: 1999
College: Education and Human Development
Award Level: Extension/ Continuing Education
Edward
Janosky
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Year Awarded: 1988
College: Budget/Payroll
Award Level: Staff
Arul
Jayaraman
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Year Awarded: 2014
Arul Jayaraman has been a member of the faculty of the Dwight Look College of Engineering since 2004. He is the holder of the Ray B. Nesbitt I Professorship in Chemical Engineering. After earning concurrent degrees in chemical engineering and physics from the Birla Institute of Technology & Science in Pilani, India, Dr. Jayaraman went on to earn an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Tufts University and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of California, Irvine. He has been recognized for teaching excellence with the Celanese Teaching Excellence Award and the Tenneco Meritorious Teaching Award.
Dr. Jayaraman’s teaching philosophy puts the student at the center of the learning experience. Put simply, he strives to create an interactive and highly effective learning environment where students actively engage in the learning process. This is important in the graduate and undergraduate courses he teaches related to his field of research, but it is critical in the sophomore-level course “Elementary Chemical Engineering” that’s required for all chemical engineering majors. To meet the range of learning needs in this large and diverse class, he has introduced technology and innovative teaching approaches, such as the online problem solving system, Sapling Learning. These approaches have proven to be immensely successful and, despite the size of the class and the spectrum of abilities and—ultimately— grades, he repeatedly achieves extraordinary instructor ratings. In addition to his regular teaching and research, Dr. Jayaraman has mentored 30 undergraduates and 3 high school students in his lab. This level of involvement is extremely significant and requires a major time commitment, which clearly demonstrates his passion for mentoring undergraduates.
College: College of Engineering
Award Level: Teaching