Arthur
Martell
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Year Awarded: 1973
College: Science
Award Level: Research
Edward
Massingill
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Year Awarded: 2012
Edward Massingill joined the staff of Texas A&M University in 1980 as a custodial worker I for Physical Plant Custodial Services. In 1988, he was promoted to custodial worker II. He has been a senior custodian for the past 23 years. Altogether, Mr. Massingill has dedicated 31 years of outstanding service to the university.
For the past 15 years, Mr. Massingill has worked in the Large Animal Surgery in the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. The area consists of four operating rooms, two patient preparation rooms, seven recovery stalls, and the entire Central Sterile Supply area. He is specifically responsible for keeping the area clean, disinfected, and decontaminated. The wellbeing and recovery of the patients depends on a number of factors, but one of the most important is the overall cleanliness of the surgical suite. As the surgery custodian, Mr. Massingill employs a unique set of skills to perform his job; these include strong customer focus, accountability, initiative, attention to detail, pride in his work, and a conscientious work ethic. He is a valued and important member of the team in the Large Animal Surgery and contributes greatly to the team’s success.
Mr. Massingill’s outstanding service has been recognized by Custodial Services many times throughout his career as the Employee of the Year for Crew B. In addition, he was nominated by his colleagues for the Employee of the Year award for all of Custodial Services. In 2011, he received the Candle Light Award from the Office of the Vice President for Administration.
College: Facilities
Award Level: Staff
Kaye L.
Matejka
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Year Awarded: 2006
College: Engineering
Award Level: Staff
Christopher
Mathewson
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Year Awarded: 1986
College: Geosciences
Award Level: Teaching
James
Matis ’70
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Year Awarded: 1993
College: Science
Award Level: Teaching
James
Matis ’70
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Year Awarded: 1998
College: Science
Award Level: Research
Reuben
May
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Year Awarded: 2013
Reuben May earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He joined the faculty of the College of Liberal Arts in 2005. His research expertise includes race and ethnicity, urban sociology and sociology of sport. His research has been widely honored and his book, Living Through the Hoop: High School Basketball, Race and the American Dream, received the book of the year award from the Association of Humanist Sociology.
Dr. May routinely teaches Sociology of African Americans and Sociology of Sport, which both draw large numbers of students even though he prefers to teach early in the day. He has a well-deserved reputation for challenging his students to think in innovative ways and to further analyze how different perspectives relate to what is taken for granted.
He is known for engaging his students and for the enthusiasm and energy he brings to lectures. Students typically offer comments like these. “Dr. May was a prof who actually encouraged us to think and was curious about what we thought.” “He pushes for academic excellence in his students.” “Dr. May made the class exciting and worth coming to.” Indeed, Dr. May is known for different approaches including his “rhymes” and his occasional instructional rapping intermixed with the Socratic method. Another student comments, “Dr. May is an absolutely superb professor. He uses a remarkable method to get students to open their minds and think. This is the most interesting course I have ever taken at Texas A&M University.”
Dr. May was the recipient of the Dr. Martin Luther King visiting Professorship at MIT and was awarded the Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellowship at Harvard University. He received three teaching awards while on the faculty of the University of Georgia.
College: Department of Sociology
Award Level: Teaching
Daniel A.
McAdams
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Year Awarded: 2018
Daniel McAdams earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin, a master’s from the California Institute of Technology, “Caltech,” and a doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin. He joined the faculty of the College of Engineering in 2008 after serving as a faculty member at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. A professor of mechanical engineering, Dr. McAdams serves as associate department head for graduate programs and was recently awarded the Robert H. Fletcher Professorship. He teaches undergraduate courses in design methods, biologically inspired design, and machine element design, and graduate courses in product design and dynamics. Dr. McAdams’ research interests are in the area of design theory and methodology with specific focus on functional modeling; innovation in concept synthesis; biologically inspired design methods; inclusive design; and technology evolution as applied to product design. He is best known for the creation of the Functional Basis and its application in the creation of new methods to improve engineering design. Dr. McAdams was awarded the 2017 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the 2016-2017 Herbert H. Richardson Faculty Fellow Award from the College of Engineering, the 2015 Mechanical Engineering Industrial Advisory Council Outstanding Faculty Contribution Award, the 2014-2015 College of Engineering Dean’s Fellow designation, and the 2012 Design Studies award, for the best paper published in the journal Design Studies. He has edited a book on biologically inspired design.
College: Department of Mechanical Engineering
Award Level: Individual Student Relations
Thomas Edison
McAfee
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Year Awarded: 1957
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Student Relations
Mary Lea
McAnally
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Year Awarded: 2009
College: Mays Business School
Award Level: Teaching
Bruce
McCarl
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Year Awarded: 1994
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Research
Bruce A.
McCarl
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Year Awarded: 2010
College: College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Research
Gary
McCord ’79
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Year Awarded: 1998
College: Medicine
Award Level: Teaching
J.D.
McCrady ’52
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Year Awarded: 1991
College: Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science
Award Level: Staff
William
McCulloch
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Year Awarded: 1987
College: Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science
Award Level: Extension/ Continuing Education
Stephen
McDaniel
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Year Awarded: 2007
Stephen McDaniel earned his BBA in 1971 and MBA in 1972 from Texas A&M University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas in 1979. He served as Captain in the U.S. Army Signal Corps and in store operations with J.C. Penney. He now serves as Assistant Department Head and Master of Science Advisor in the Department of Marketing, Mays Business School. In addition to this work, he advises three student organizations - Breakaway Ministries, Freedom Ministries (Upstream Bible Study), and the Masters Marketing Association, and he is the cooperative education advisor for his department, and leader of the Marketing Study Abroad Program.
While on the faculty at Texas A&M, he has published over fifty articles in academic journals and is the co-author of two books. “Dr. Mac” (as his students call him) has been honored with a Fish Camp Namesake Award, a T-Camp Namesake Award, and a college level Association of Former Students Distinguished Service Award for Excellence in Teaching. He and his wife Nancy have been married 31 years. They have two children - Brian, 28, a missionary in Spain, and Sarah, 22, an elementary education major at Sam Houston State University.
College: Business
Award Level: Graduate Mentoring
Jackie
McDermott
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Year Awarded: 2003
College: President's Office
Award Level: Staff
John J.
McDermott
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Year Awarded: 1983
College: Liberal Arts/Medicine
Award Level: Teaching
John J.
McDermott
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Year Awarded: 1989
College: Medicine
Award Level: Research
John J.
McDermott
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Year Awarded: 2004
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
Make
McDermott, Jr.
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Year Awarded: 1991
College: Engineering
Award Level: Teaching
Mary P.
McDougall '97
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Year Awarded: 2017
Mary McDougall, associate professor of biomedical engineering with a joint appointment in electrical and computer engineering, earned her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University. She joined the faculty of the College of Engineering in 2006. Her research is focused on developing novel hardware and methodologies for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Her nominator wrote that Dr. McDougall is a dedicated and gifted educator, who beyond the classroom has mentored students in research, promoted broader participation in engineering, and established programs that promote undergraduate research training and preparation for graduate school. Dr. McDougall’s teaching philosophy is based on three fundamental approaches: 1) making sure the students can understand the “big picture” by applying the class theory to the real world; 2) maintaining enthusiasm about the material; and 3) being personally accessible to the students. Comments from her teaching reviews demonstrate her success in implementing these approaches. A student wrote that she provides “great explanations,” clearly translating electromagnetic theory using real world examples. Another described her class as “Hands down, the most interesting and rewarding course I’ve taken at TAMU.” In addition to consistently receiving consistently high teaching reviews, Dr. McDougall has also developed two new courses. The first, a course in magnetic resonance engineering, provided experiential learning for students by building an NMR spectrometer in the classroom and constructing a desktop MRI system from the ground up. One student commented, “The fact that you build your own MRI. Seriously…that’s cool!” About the second course, which examines non-ionizing electromagnetic theory in the context of biomedical applications, a student wrote, “EM theory was presented intuitively, and you could see the excitement on students’ faces.”
College: Department of Biomedical Engineering
Award Level: Teaching
George
McEachem
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Year Awarded: 1994
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Extension/ Continuing Education
Roger
McGee ’22
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Year Awarded: 1958
College: Science
Award Level: Student Relations
Annie L.
McGowan
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Year Awarded: 2007
Annie McGowan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Accounting at Texas A&M University. She received a B.S. from Alcorn State University, a M.S. from Jackson State University, and a Ph.D. from the University of North Texas. Dr. McGowan's research focusing on the technical and behavioral implications of cost management system design and implementation has been published in journals including The Journal of Management Accounting Research, The Accounting Horizons, The Journal of Accounting and Finance Research, The Journal of Cost Management, The Journal of Accounting and Public Policy and The Accounting Review.
Dr. McGowan teaches an undergraduate course in cost accounting, and the honors sections of managerial accounting. She has been recognized for her accomplishments in many ways, including being named, the 1998-1999 Montague Center for Teaching Excellence Scholar, University Honors Teacher/Scholar in 2002, and the Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award in 2003. Dr. McGowan serves as the Program Director for the Mays Business Career Awareness Program, a summer residency program designed to recruit high achieving minority students. She is also the advisor for the Texas A&M University student chapter of the National Association of Black Accountants, and the African American Business Society.
College: Business
Award Level: Teaching
James
McGrann ’73
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Year Awarded: 1990
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Extension/ Continuing Education
William
McIntosh
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Year Awarded: 1993
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
Peter M.
McIntyre
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Year Awarded: 2003
College: Science
Award Level: Research
E. Lisako
McKyer
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Year Awarded: 2014
E. Lisako J. McKyer earned her master’s in public health and her Ph.D. from Indiana University, Bloomington. She joined the faculty of the College of Education & Human Development in 2006 where she is a Read Faculty Fellow and director of the Transdisciplinary Center for Health Equity Research. She also founded and directs the Child & Adolescent Health Research Lab.
According to her students, Dr. McKyer’s philosophy for graduate student training and mentoring is anchored by her strong belief that graduate students are to be treated as ‘junior colleagues-in-training.’” They say that her “enthusiasm” and “passion” for her chosen field of health promotion, child health, and health inequities is evident in her teaching style, her passion to collaborate and her drive to involve her students in research opportunities, all tailored to the specific needs and strengths of her students. As a result, during her time at Texas A&M, she has mentored a diverse group of more than 50 graduate students, involving them in her research and scholarly publications and presentations, often listing them as first authors. A current student wrote, “Her enthusiasm and passion is exhibited in all she does, she has the biggest of hearts, always has a smile on her face and is always ready to chip in a good word ….She is infectious in a good way.” He credits her positive attitude for motivating him and others to emulate her good work. “You just want to sit and listen to her all day.” Another student wrote, “I leave an exchange with Dr. McKyer fired up about my research, my teaching, and the many things going on under her umbrella of influence. Her enthusiasm is contagious to say the least.” A former student now at Baylor College of Medicine concludes, “she provided me with opportunities to present at conferences, publish in journals, and connect to others…. Not only did she provide external resources and connections to help me achieve my goals, she instilled internal motivation and confidence.”
College: College of Education and Human Development
Award Level: Graduate Mentoring
James
McNamara
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Year Awarded: 1999
College: Education and Human Development
Award Level: Teaching