William
Nash
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Year Awarded: 1988
College: Education and Human Development
Award Level: Extension/ Continuing Education
Jack
Nation
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Year Awarded: 1995
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
Joseph
Natowitz
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Year Awarded: 1988
College: Science
Award Level: Research
Robert
Nevels
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Year Awarded: 2000
College: Engineering
Award Level: Teaching
H. Joseph
Newton
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Year Awarded: 2005
College: Science
Award Level: Administration
John
Nielsen-Gammon
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Year Awarded: 1996
College: Geosciences
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
Donna
Norton
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Year Awarded: 1982
College: Education and Human Development
Award Level: Teaching
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
Gerald
O'Donovan
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Year Awarded: 1973
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Teaching
Mary Ann
O'Farrell
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Year Awarded: 1997
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
Katherine O'Brien
O'Keefe
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Year Awarded: 1986
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
Steven M.
Oberhelman
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Year Awarded: 2004
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
Rogelio
Oliva
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Year Awarded: 2013
Rogelio Oliva earned his Ph.D. from MIT. He joined the Mays Business School faculty in 2004 and is currently a Ford Faculty Fellow. He has taught in academic programs around the world, including institutions in Spain, Chile and Mexico. He has won twelve teaching awards at four universities, including four teaching awards here at Texas A&M.
Dr. Oliva is a master of the case study method of teaching, which is generally contrasted to a lecture and lab approach. Through case study and discussion, students determine universal principles. The instructor acts as a guide, asking questions to lead students to discover these principles themselves through analysis. Case teaching can be challenging. There are no lecture notes or PowerPoint slides to read from, no book with structure to follow, and students often unveil novel analysis or statements. So a teacher must be ready to deal with a wide variety of unanticipated events. As a consequence, there are many case teachers, but not many who are proficient.
His students find him to be a demanding teacher. But he consistently attains very high student evaluations. In addition to his in-class work, he gives seminars to faculty on how to teach case studies, he has written case studies and computer simulations that are used by thousands of students each year at top universities around the world, and he has published academic peer-reviewed articles both on teaching and rigorously employing case studies as research methods.
A former student remarked that he experienced so many moments of insight in Dr. Oliva’s class that he “actually went home exhausted” from the mental exercise. Dr. Oliva is an extremely valuable asset for Texas A&M and an outstanding teacher whose energy, enthusiasm and genuine love for teaching make him a great educator.
College: Department of Information and Operations Management
Award Level: Teaching
James
Olson
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Year Awarded: 2010
College: The Bush School of Government and Public Service
Award Level: Teaching
Carlos
Pace
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Year Awarded: 1990
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Teaching
Norma
Pantoja
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Year Awarded: 2007
Norma Pantoja is an Administrative Coordinator in the Department of Agricultural Economics in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Texas A&M University. As administrative coordinator, Ms. Pantoja is responsible for the coordination of all administrative processes in a very large department with an annual budget in excess of ten million dollars that employs more than 250 people on any given day, including more than 55 on- and off-campus faculty members, numerous professional staff, support staff and student workers. In 2000, Ms. Pantoja received the Vice Chancellor’s Award in Excellence for Administrative Support and has been recognized by students and faculty within her department with numerous awards.
In addition to her leadership within the department, Ms. Pantoja has served in numerous positions within the Texas A&M Association of Professional Support Staff [TAPSS] and has served her community as co-chair of the Volunteer Committee and co-chair of the annual American Cancer Society’s Cattle Baron’s Ball for 2002/03 and 2003/04.
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Staff
Casey J.
Papovich
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Year Awarded: 2017
Casey Papovich, professor and holder of the Marcia and Ralph Schilling Chair in Physics and Astronomy, received his bachelor’s in physics from the College of William and Mary and his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University. Before joining the faculty of the College of Science in 2008, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory, led scientific results from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, and was awarded NASA’s Spitzer Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship. He is a recognized expert in extragalactic astrophysics with a focus on galaxy formation and cosmology. Dr. Papovich was one of the pioneers using deep imaging from the Hubble Space Telescope to measure the growth of stars in galaxies over the history of the Universe. He is a frequent user of the world’s largest ground-based telescopes, and he has led large programs with NASA’s space-based observatories. Dr. Papovich’s recent work has important implications for many aspects of subsequent evolution of galaxies — one of the major science objectives of the next generation of space telescopes. His work is helping to define the observing plans for these $5 billion-level projects — an indicator of his global impact. As of January 2016, he has authored or co-authored more than 190 highly cited peer-reviewed publications. In 2014, 2015, and 2016, he was selected one of Thomas Reuter’s Highly Cited Researchers — awarded to the top one percent of cited researchers.
College: Department of Physics and Astronomy
Award Level: Research
Travis
Parker
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Year Awarded: 1955
College: Geosciences
Award Level: Teaching
Paul
Parrish
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Year Awarded: 2000
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
Jerry
Parsons
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Year Awarded: 1990
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Extension/ Continuing Education
Emanuel
Parzen
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Year Awarded: 1983
College: Science
Award Level: Research
Joseph
Pasciak
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Year Awarded: 2011
Dr. Joseph E. Pasciak received his Ph.D. in 1977 from Cornell University. He was an Assistant Mathematician at Brookhaven National Laboratory from 1977 to 1979, Associate Mathematician from 1979 to 1982, and Mathematician from 1982 to 1996. He was Visiting Scientist with the Department of Computer Science at Yale University from September to December 1983, and with the Mathematical Sciences Institute at Cornell University in August 1989 and again in July 1994. He held Adjunct Professorships at the State University of New York at Stony Brook from 1986 to 1996 and at Texas A&M University from 1994 to 1996. Dr. Pasciak is the recipient of the 2007 Computational and Mathematical methods in Science and Engineering Prize for 'Excellence in Research', and of the Outstanding Science Communicator Award of the Texas A&M University chapter of Sigma Xi. He is regarded as a world leader on these topics. His work in these areas is very deep, highly innovative, mathematically complete, and it has enormous practical impact. It has been very influential for both theoretical numerical analysis and practical techniques for large scale computing of solutions to partial differential equations. Several methods which are widely used by the applied mathematics community bear his name: the Bramble/ Pasciak method for preconditioning a class of problems known as saddle point problems, the BPX (Bramble/Pasciak/Xu) preconditioner in multi-level methods, and the BPS (Bramble/Pasciak/ Schatz) preconditioner in the so called non-overlapping domain decomposition method.
Two noted scholars and colleagues of Dr. Pasciak wrote, “Joe Pasciak is a pillar of the group in numerical analysis at Texas A&M. He has been instrumental in developing this group to a size and strength that now puts it among the best in the country. His research and his related educational work have enhanced the reputation of Texas A&M University worldwide.”
College: College of Science
Award Level: Research
Mary Ruth
Patranella
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Year Awarded: 1982
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Staff
C.O.
Patterson
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Year Awarded: 2005
College: Science
Award Level: Teaching
Vivian
Paul
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Year Awarded: 1995
College: Architecture
Award Level: Teaching