Richard Timothy
Dye ’85
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Year Awarded: 2006
College: Business
Award Level: Teaching
Chester
Dunning
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Year Awarded: 1995
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
Kim R.
Dunbar
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Year Awarded: 2006
College: Science
Award Level: Graduate Mentoring
Kim
Dunbar
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Year Awarded: 2012
Kim Dunbar earned her Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1984 and was a postdoctoral research associate at Texas A&M in 1985-86. She has been a member of the Texas A&M faculty since 1999 and is the Davidson Professor of Science in the College of Science. Her research program spans several areas of interest in fundamental and applied research. The projects are in three general areas: magnetic and electronic molecular materials, supramolecular chemistry of anions, and metal complexes in medicinal applications.
During her distinguished career as an inorganic chemist, she has published more than 300 articles in top-tier journals and the mentored more than a hundred undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and visiting students and scholars. These numbers include 29 Ph.D. students and 6 master’s students who have gone on to successful careers in academia and industry.
Dr. Dunbar is one of the most productive inorganic chemists in the world with 9,380 citations to her credit. In addition to her research, she is a very conscientious member of the scientific community, playing a major role in national and international professional activities. She is recognized throughout the world both for her creativity and excellence in research and for her energetic participation in meetings, professional organizations, and the publication of research.
Dr. Dunbar has received many honors and awards for teaching and research. To name a few, she received the premier Teaching Award for freshman chemistry from Michigan State University, a Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, a Sigma Xi Research Award, and two NSF Creativity Extension Awards. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Chemical Society. She is the first woman in the College of Science at Texas A&M to be named a Chaired Professor.
College: Science
Award Level: Research
N.M.
Duller, Jr. ’48
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Year Awarded: 1965
College: Science
Award Level: Teaching
Suzanne
Droleskey ’00
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Year Awarded: 1996
College: International Student Services
Award Level: Student Relations
Sandra
Drews
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Year Awarded: 2003
College: Geosciences
Award Level: Individual Student Relations
Bastiaan
Drees
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Year Awarded: 1996
College: TAEX
Award Level: Continuing Education/Professional Development
Edward R.
Dougherty
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Year Awarded: 2005
College: Engineering
Award Level: Research
Joseph
Donaldson
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Year Awarded: 1979
College: Architecture
Award Level: Teaching
Wesley
Donaldson
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Year Awarded: 1980
College: Administration
Award Level: Staff
Patrick
Domenico
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Year Awarded: 1989
College: Geosciences
Award Level: Teaching
Joe
Dixon
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Year Awarded: 1979
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Research
Warren
Dixon
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Year Awarded: 1979
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Student Relations
John
Dinkel
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Year Awarded: 1998
College: Business
Award Level: Administration
Sidney
DeWerth
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Year Awarded: 1967
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
Ronald A.
DeVore
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Year Awarded: 2014
Ronald A. DeVore is a University Distinguished Professor and the Walter E. Koss Professor in the Department of Mathematics. He has been a faculty member of the College of Science since 2007. He earned his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. Known internationally for the breadth and originality of his fundamental contributions to applied mathematics, Dr. DeVore has received many honors, including the Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris Gold Medal, the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award, and the Bulgarian Gold Medal of Science. He is a member of the inaugural class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, a member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has more than 155 refereed journal publications, 3 books and 10 expository articles. His work has been cited more than 15,000 times.
Dr. DeVore’s career touches upon many areas of mathematics, including approximation theory, numerical analysis, signal/image processing, and statistical estimation. His research has been rated by his peers as “profound and revolutionary,” his contributions as “fundamental,” his work as being endowed with “an exceptional mutually synergetic balance between theory and applications,” and his achievements as “simply astounding.” A supporter from Duke University said, “If I could build my own Dream Team of mathematical researchers of both theory and applications, he would be its Captain.” Another supporter adds, “Prof. Ron DeVore is my hero. Why is he my hero? Because he is all what we dream of becoming as faculty members.” The trademark of Professor DeVore’s work is that, as another colleague summarizes, “many of his results have been the first of a particular kind, thereby becoming door openers, exhibiting in a way the highest level of genuine novelty.”
College: College of Science
Award Level: Research
Katherine
Dettwyler
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Year Awarded: 2001
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
Andrew
Dessler
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Year Awarded: 2018
Andrew Dessler earned a bachelor’s degree from Rice University and a doctorate from Harvard University. He also did postdoctoral work at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and spent nine years on the research faculty of the University of Maryland. He joined the faculty of the College of Geosciences in 2005 and holds the Earl F. Cook Professor of Geosciences at Texas A&M University. Dr. Dessler’s scientific research revolves around climate sensitivity ? how much warming of the climate system occurs per unit carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere. As part of this, he has researched individual climate feedbacks, in particular how water vapor and clouds act to amplify an initial temperature perturbation of the climate system. He is widely recognized to be among the world’s experts in this area. During the last year of the Clinton Administration, he served as a senior policy analyst in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Based on this, as well as his research experience, he has authored two books on climate change: The science and politics of global climate change: A guide to the debate (co-written with Edward Parson), and Introduction to modern climate change. This latter book won the 2014 American Meteorological Society Louis J. Battan Author's Award. He was named a Google Science Communication Fellow in recognition of his work communicating climate science to the public, and he received the American Geophysical Union’s Ascent Award from the atmospheric sciences section to reward exceptional research achievements by a mid-career scientist. In 2017, Dr. Dessler was elected an AAAS Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science for “outstanding research in atmospheric chemistry and physics, teaching, writing, and community service.”
College: Department of Atmospheric Sciences
Award Level: Research
Darren L.
DePoy
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Year Awarded: 2015
Darren DePoy is an astronomer and holder of the endowed Rachal/Mitchell/Heep Professorship in Physics in the Department of Physics & Astronomy. He also serves as deputy director of the Munnerlyn Astronomical Laboratory. He joined the faculty of the College of Science in 2008. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii. Dr. DePoy is a world leader in the development of astronomical instrumentation for ground-based telescopes. Before coming to Texas A&M he was the director of Astronomical Instrumentation at The Ohio State University. While there, he was project scientist for the Dark Energy Survey camera—the world’s largest digital camera—that is now working in Chile. Although it is common for astronomers who are experts in instrumentation to not do science along with instrumentation development, Dr. DePoy actively uses the instruments he builds. His main field of work has been the study of active galactic nuclei fueled by the enormous black holes, and the discovery of exoplanets using “microlensing,” the rapid brightening and fading of a distant star by a foreground object. He is also involved with other initiatives, including the Giant Magellan Telescope. His leadership in astronomical instrumentation has positioned Texas A&M as a premiere institution in astronomical instrumentation. His international impact is expressed by a few quotes from colleagues. “Darren’s contributions to astronomical research…have expanded the frontier of astronomical observations,” “His work has enabled, or aided, the research of hundreds of professional research astronomers world-wide,” and “By training the next generation of instrumentalists DePoy is making a contribution to the future of astronomy that will endure.” His nominator sums up, saying, “We were incredibly fortunate to bring Prof. DePoy to Texas A&M.”
College: College of Science
Award Level: Research
Maurice E.
Dennis
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Year Awarded: 2004
College: Education and Human Development
Award Level: Continuing Education/Extension
Michael D.
Delp
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Year Awarded: 2005
College: Education and Human Development
Award Level: Research
W. Les
Dees ’71
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Year Awarded: 1996
College: Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science
Award Level: Research
Darryl
de Ruiter
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Year Awarded: 2016
Darryl de Ruiter, professor of anthropology, earned his Ph.D. in anatomical sciences from the University of the Witswatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He joined the faculty of the College of Liberal Arts in 2003 after completing postdoctoral research with the Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontology in South Africa. Dr. de Ruiter is internationally recognized as a preeminent scholar in the field of paleoanthropology. He has co-authored more than 60 papers in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes, including almost a dozen papers in the journals Science and Nature. His research has been featured on the covers of Science, Time Magazine, Discover Magazine, and Scientific American, as well as on television programs on the National Geographic Channel and in a recent PBS NOVA special. Dr. de Ruiter is one of three principal investigators at the famous Malapa site in South Africa, responsible for analyzing the skulls, jaws, and teeth of the early human ancestor Australopithecus sediba. He serves as a principal investigator at the newly discovered Rising Star Cave fossil site in South Africa, where the remains of dozens of individuals of a new type of human ancestor have been found, which Dr. de Ruiter and his colleagues call Homo naledi. Support letters from around the world indicate that his research is transforming the field of paleoanthropology, saying that he is “doing work at the forefront of human evolutionary studies”; “his actions represent “a new ethos in the discipline”; he is “clearly at the top of his field and deserving of recognition for excellence in research”; his work “has been groundbreaking” and brings “a never-before held, detailed understanding of early hominin behavior; and “the breadth and impact” of his “work has been equaled by very few” in the field.
College: College of Liberal Arts
Award Level: Research
Richard Read
Davison ’58
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Year Awarded: 1972
College: Engineering
Award Level: Teaching
Richard
Davis, Jr. ’40
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Year Awarded: 1960
College: Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science
Award Level: Teaching
Ernest
Davis ’71
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Year Awarded: 1989
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Extension/ Continuing Education