John McNeill ’68
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Year Awarded: 1995

College: Agriculture and Life Sciences

Award Level: Continuing Education/Professional Development

N.A. McNiel ’35
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Year Awarded: 1965

College: Agriculture and Life Sciences

Award Level: Teaching

Arnold Mediltz
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Year Awarded: 1980

College: Liberal Arts

Award Level: Teaching

Kenneth J. Meier
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Year Awarded: 2003

College: Liberal Arts

Award Level: Research

Kenneth J. Meier
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Year Awarded: 2013

Kenneth Meier earned his Ph.D. from Syracuse University. He joined the faculty of the College of Liberal Arts in 1998 and holds the Charles H. Gregory Chair in Liberal Arts. He is a leading authority in two areas of research—the role of public organizations in public policy and race and politics. He is the author of 20 books and more than 230 articles, essays and book chapters. His career achievement awards include the H. George Frederickson Award, the C. Dwight Waldo Award, the John Gaus Award, the Charles Levine Award and The Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award in Research.

Dr. Meier has devoted extensive time, effort, and resources to mentoring graduate students at Texas A&M He has chaired 21 completed dissertations and served as a member on an additional 18 completed dissertations. He chairs three dissertations in progress and serves as the major advisor for nine other graduate students. His mentoring process begins before the student even arrives on campus. He aggressively recruits students for the graduate program and uses his own funds to bring to campus 8 to 12 students per year. When students enter the graduate program, his mentoring system focuses not just on research but on a full range of career-enhancing opportunities, ultimately including assistance with placement. His mentorship does not end when the students graduates. He has created an active network among his current and past students. They meet for dinner every year in Chicago during a national convention. The success of his mentoring is proved by the success of his students.



His contributions have been recognized nationally by the Women’s Caucus of the American Political Science Association, by the Latino Caucus of the American Political Science Association and by the Public Policy Section of the American Political Science Association.

College: Department of Political Science

Award Level: Graduate Mentoring

Robert Melcher ’32
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Year Awarded: 1976

College: Staff

Award Level: Student Relations

Sue Melton
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Year Awarded: 1999

College: Agriculture and Life Sciences

Award Level: Staff

Linda Menn-Fritcher
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Year Awarded: 1994

College: Architecture

Award Level: Staff

Jennifer Mercieca
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Year Awarded: 2016

Jennifer Mercieca, associate professor in the Department of Communication, earned her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois and joined the faculty of the College of Liberal Arts in 2003. She has taught 51 courses including graduate seminars, mass lecture undergraduate courses, and writing-intensive undergraduate courses. Her teaching record is outstanding. Her colleagues say that Dr. Mercieca’s exceptional dedication to her students is evident in her career-long commitment to high-impact teaching and in her work establishing the Texas A&M Agora, which provides opportunities for students throughout campus to learn political skills outside of the classroom. Dr. Mercieca has developed seven different high-impact undergraduate courses that merge theory with practice and enable students to solve real-world problems. Her students have gone out into the community to solve problems for local charities and to register voters. In addition, some of her students have written political campaign plans and served as speechwriters for their representatives in Congress. Under her direction, Aggie Agora has established engaged citizenship workshops and hosted guest lectures on political topics ranging from issues of civil liberties to food security. In short, she seeks to create a vibrant culture of learning both inside and outside of the classroom, enabling her students to be future leaders and problem solvers. A former student wrote, “I loved this class. It really made me aware of what is going on in the world today, and there are a lot changes that are needed.” Another student commented, “For the first time ever, I felt like an active citizen.” A former student, now a doctoral student in Georgia, wrote “Mercieca’s commitment to the success of her students, her ability to inspire her students intellectually, and the priority she places on mentorship continues to play an instrumental role in my life.”

College: College of Liberal Arts

Award Level: Teaching

Morris Merkle
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Year Awarded: 1986

College: Agriculture and Life Sciences

Award Level: Teaching

Stjepan G. Mes?trovic´
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Year Awarded: 2015

Stjepan G. Meštrovic earned his Ph.D. from Syracuse University and taught at Lander College before joining the faculty of the College of Liberal Arts in 1991. He is well known for his work on social theory, culture and war crimes. He has served as an expert witness at The Hague for the International Court of the Tribunal for Yugoslavia, at courts martial pertaining to abuse at Abu Ghraib, and at multiple other courts martial and clemency hearings. He is the author or editor of 18 books as well as more than 70 articles, chapters, or essays. He has garnered numerous awards and honors for his research. But, along with his incredibly productive research record, Dr. Meštrovic has always been known for his inspiring teaching. His quantitative teaching evaluations are always among the very highest in the Department of Sociology, and his students often remark that he has inspired and transformed their thinking. His nominator says that a large part of what makes Dr. Meštrovic such an effective teacher is his ability to explain incredibly complex issues and analyze them in ways that do not completely overwhelm his students. In addition, he is well known for taking time to talk to students both inside and outside of class. A current student credits Dr. Meštrovic with changing his whole outlook on his college experience, writing, “I became far more interested in school when I found a professor that actually taught through conversation and application as opposed to a professor that simply talked at me. I found a professor that left me constantly thinking about theory and its true application.” A graduate student summarizes, “He has repeatedly modeled the type of professor that I would like to be one day; compassionate but not a pushover, humorous yet serious about education and about fostering a love of learning—esteemed yet humble.”

College: College of Liberal Arts

Award Level: Teaching

Murray Milford ’55
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Year Awarded: 1988

College: Agriculture and Life Sciences

Award Level: Student Relations

Murray Milford ’55
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Year Awarded: 1994

College: Agriculture and Life Sciences

Award Level: Teaching

Murray Milford ’55
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Year Awarded: 1972

College: Agriculture and Life Sciences

Award Level: Teaching

Katherine I. Miller
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Year Awarded: 2010

College: College of Liberal Arts

Award Level: Graduate Mentoring

Frederick Miller ’63
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Year Awarded: 1988

College: Agriculture and Life Sciences

Award Level: Research

John Milliff ’28
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Year Awarded: 1959

College: Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science

Award Level: Teaching

J. Frank Mills ’43
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Year Awarded: 1966

College: Agriculture and Life Sciences

Award Level: Teaching

Haskell Monroe, Jr.
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Year Awarded: 1964

College: Liberal Arts

Award Level: Teaching

Richard Wayne Moore ’55
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Year Awarded: 1970

College: Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science

Award Level: Research

Daryle Morgan
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Year Awarded: 1999

College: Engineering

Award Level: Teaching

Joseph A. Morgan '80
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Year Awarded: 2014

Joseph A. Morgan earned both his master’s and doctoral degrees from Texas A&M. He served 22 years in the US Air Force; his last assignment was as a member of the electrical engineering faculty at the US Air Force Academy. He joined the faculty of the Dwight Look College of Engineering in 1989. He has received numerous awards at the department and college level recognizing him as a master teacher and student mentor.



His nominator commented that in his two decades with the department, Dr. Morgan’s leadership as a program director for the Electronic Systems Engineering Technology (ESET) Program, associate department head for undergraduate studies and as an active senior faculty member has made a profoundly positive impact on the students in the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution. Even in his capacity as a researcher or in service to national organizations, he finds ways to involve undergraduate students in value-added activities. Dr. Morgan consistently ranks among the highest rated instructors in his department. Student comments from teaching evaluations most often site his vast industry experience, exceptional organization and communication skills, and state that he is demanding but fair.



As a teacher, Dr. Morgan has earned the respect of his colleagues many times over. He has an unparalleled enthusiasm for working with undergraduate students, sparking their passion for learning, and motivating them to do more than they thought possible. He also has an endless supply of new and creative ways to teach and ensure student learning. His current efforts in recruiting and developing tools for teaching engineering to high school students will have a significant impact on the ESET Program, its incoming freshmen and outgoing graduates for years to come.

College: College of Engineering

Award Level: Teaching

Page Morgan ’55
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Year Awarded: 1985

College: Agriculture and Life Sciences

Award Level: Research

William Pat Morrison
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Year Awarded: 1989

College: Agriculture and Life Sciences

Award Level: Extension/ Continuing Education

John Morse
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Year Awarded: 2000

College: Geosciences

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 Mullet
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Year Awarded: 1993

College: Agriculture and Life Sciences

Award Level: Research

Steven Murdock
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Year Awarded: 1994

College: Agriculture and Life Sciences

Award Level: Research

William Murphy
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Year Awarded: 2010

College: College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Award Level: Research

Michael D. Murphy ’61
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Year Awarded: 2005

College: Architecture

Award Level: Teaching