W. Leon
Scrutchfield ’79
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Year Awarded: 1997
College: Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science
Award Level: Teaching
Donald
Seaman
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Year Awarded: 1979
College: Education and Human Development
Award Level: Extension/ Continuing Education
Robert
Segner
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Year Awarded: 2007
Robert O. “Bob” Segner loves to introduce himself with the words, “It is my privilege to serve as Professor of Construction Science at Texas A&M University.” His teaching, and his love for his students, and for his university, are the centerpieces of his professional life. Present and former students name him as the faculty member who was the most influential teacher and mentor, on their road to success. Professor Segner has built a career of teaching excellence, as well as significant accomplishment in research and service, in the program where he was previously a student. He graduated from Texas A&M in 1969 with a B.S. degree in Architectural Construction, and a Master of Construction Management degree in 1972.
As a Professor, he has served his Department and College in many roles. He has developed the most highly subscribed courses in his department. He has been recognized for teaching excellence at the departmental, college, university, regional, and national levels. He is actively involved at the national level in professional associations, and is President-Elect of the American Council for Construction Education, the primary international accreditation agency for programs of construction management higher education.
College: Architecture
Award Level: Teaching
Jane
Sell ’74
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Year Awarded: 1991
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
John
Shadduck
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Year Awarded: 1995
College: Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science
Award Level: Administration
Peter
Sharpe
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Year Awarded: 1984
College: Engineering
Award Level: Research
Michael
Shaub
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Year Awarded: 2012
Michael Shaub joined the faculty of Texas A&M’s Mays Business School in 2006 after service on the faculties of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Hillsdale College, the University of North Alabama, and St. Mary’s University. He earned his Ph.D. in accounting from Texas Tech University. He currently teaches a pre-internship auditing course and a post-internship ethics course, both of which are very important to the early career experiences and success of Texas A&M’s accounting students.
Dr. Shaub is an unusually dedicated and exceptional teacher who is highly respected by current and former students both for his teaching ability and his genuine concern for his students’ development. In addition to being an exceptional teacher and motivator, Dr. Shaub is also always willing to spend significant time out of the classroom for both the academic and personal development of his students.
His unusual effectiveness in teaching is driven by the four elements in his teaching philosophy. First, each individual matters. Second, it is imperative for him to stimulate creativity in his students. Third, one of his objectives is to help his students realize their potential. And fourth, beyond the search for knowledge, he wants to help his students grow in wisdom as well as to be life-long learners.
He prepares his students for the real world by using true-to-life business and professional scenarios in the classroom. His strategies clearly enhance students’ understanding of internal controls and the fraud assessment process that they will likely use in real-life situations. He also prepares them to deal with real-life ethical issues.
Dr. Shaub has unusual enthusiasm for his students and his work, which is strengthened by an extremely positive attitude and a caring personality. He is considered to be an exceptional faculty member and a very important asset to the accounting students at Texas A&M University.
College: Mays Business School
Award Level: Teaching
Winston
Shearon, Jr.
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Year Awarded: 1991
College: Business
Award Level: Teaching
Sallie
Sheppard ’65
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Year Awarded: 1985
College: Engineering
Award Level: Teaching
Sallie
Sheppard ’65
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Year Awarded: 1996
College: Associate Provost
Award Level: Administration
Bala
Shetty
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Year Awarded: 2016
Bala Shetty, professor and holder of the Cullen Trust for Higher Education Chair and Interim Associate Dean for Graduate Programs in Mays Business School, earned his Ph.D. in operations research from Southern Methodist University (SMU). After holding faculty positions at SMU and the Madrid Business School in Spain, he joined the Texas A&M faculty in 1985. He subsequently has served twice as a research fellow at Princeton University and held a number of leadership roles within Mays Business School. Dr. Shetty’s research interests include supply chain management, optimization, and finance. He has published extensively in premier scholarly journals in business. Dr. Shetty has taught with distinction at both the graduate and undergraduate levels in multiple programs, including the BBA, Full-Time MBA, Professional MBA, Executive MBA, Ph.D., and in the Center for Executive Development.
He is the recipient of The Association of Former Students College-Level Teaching Award, multiple Outstanding Faculty Awards, the Alpha Kappa Psi Undergraduate Teaching Award, and the Mays Business School Distinguished Achievement in Research Award. His teaching motto is “to deliver the very best educational experience the students can possibly receive anywhere in the country,” and his goal for the classroom is “strengthening the analytical problem-solving skills of business leaders.” His students praise him as an “incredibly gifted professor. Passionate about teaching and leadership development,” and “Very engaging.” A colleague credits him with “the outstanding preparation and insights that he gives our students.”
College: Mays Business School
Award Level: Teaching
Dorothy E.
Shippen
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Year Awarded: 2015
Dorothy Shippen joined the faculty in Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics in the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences in 1991 after earning a Ph.D. in biology at the University of Alabama and completing postdoctoral fellowships at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, San Francisco. She established the plant Arabidopsis thaliana as a model for understanding the structure and function of telomeres, which are the “caps” on the ends of chromosomes. She has received numerous awards, including the Texas A&M Faculty Fellow award, the AgriLife Research Senior Faculty Fellow award, the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research, and The Association of Former Students’ Distinguished Achievement Award for Research. These accomplishments would not have been possible without her dedication to mentoring graduate students. She has mentored 23 graduate students, and 17 have earned their doctorates so far. Fifteen of these students continued their research careers as postdoctoral fellows. Dr. Shippen is one of the most successful graduate mentors in the department: on average, her Ph.D. students publish 4.5 papers (twice the departmental average) and graduate in 5.7 years (one year less than the departmental average). Recognizing that successful graduate students need more than scientific mentoring, Dr. Shippen developed courses and workshops on building lab management skills. Uniformly, her graduate students praise her mentorship, declaring that she treated them as colleagues, both respecting their ideas and placing high expectations on them. One former student writes, “The most important value I acquired from Dorothy is perseverance.” Another says, “She always listens and considers every idea, and truly celebrates and cheers every success.” Still another adds, “…there is always some part of our spirit that stays in Dorothy’s lab. …I believe this is due to Dorothy’s personal charm, her charitable mentorship, friendship, encouragement, and inspiration.”
College: College of Science
Award Level: Graduate Mentoring
Dorothy E.
Shippen
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Year Awarded: 2008
Dorothy Shippen joined the Texas A&M faculty in 1991 and serves as a Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics. She is recognized for her pioneering research in the exciting field of telomerase, an enzyme that has special significance to aging and cancer. In the last 5 years, Dr. Shippen has published 18 papers with 4 or more “in the pipeline.” These articles chronicle a movement of her research focus using the simple plant organism Arabidopsis. Dr. Shippen is rapidly carving a unique scientific niche as she essentially pioneers this specific telomerase subfield which may serve as an important model of mammalian behavior.
An active member of the Faculty of Genetics, Dr. Shippen’s work is signified by her many invitations to speak at major scientific conferences as well as her 2001 publication in Science that essentially made the case for the relevance of plant telomers to human health. She currently enjoys over $1.7M in research grant support from NIH, NSF and the State of Texas. Eight students have received their doctoral degree under her mentorship, and over 30 undergraduates have trained under her tutelage. Her laboratory has attracted 6 other Ph.D. students, 3 postdoctoral fellows and 4 undergraduates.
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Research
C. Richard
Shumway
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Year Awarded: 1989
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Research
Robert
Shutes
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Year Awarded: 1975
College: Education and Human Development
Award Level: Student Relations
Fred
Sicilio
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Year Awarded: 1985
College: Science
Award Level: Student Relations
John
Siebert
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Year Awarded: 2010
College: College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Teaching
Nova
Silvy
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Year Awarded: 1998
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Student Relations
Nova J.
Silvy
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Year Awarded: 2015
Nova Silvy, Regents Professor, Senior Faculty Fellow, and associate department head for undergraduate programs in the Department of Wildlife & Fisheries Sciences, has been a faculty member in the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences since earning his Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in 1975. Over his 40 years of service to Texas A&M University, Nova Silvy has authored more than 280 refereed publications and contributed to the understanding of more than 100 wildlife species. Undoubtedly, he has made an impression in the wildlife profession. Dr. Silvy firmly believes that both undergraduate and graduate education are integral to a university research program. He also believes a quality education begins with the involvement of students in field research. This philosophy has empowered hundreds of undergraduates and more than 100 graduate students through field experiences and “hands-on” training. Here’s what some of them have to say. “Nova was always available within and outside work hours.… He always treated his graduate students as equals and as a result, promoted their professional development. He never needed to demand excellence—his students were always willing to give him their best effort.” “Dr. Silvy simply led by example. He personally demonstrated what a good ethical scientist is all about on a daily basis.” “His guidance not only was critical to my success in graduate school, but also prepared me well for professional achievement. The fact that he can offer individualized guidance while routinely directing 15-18 graduate students is nothing less than amazing.” Ultimately Dr. Silvy’s impact will be seen in years to come the accomplishments of the next generation of wildlife scientists.
College: College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Teaching
Jeffry A.
Simpson
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Year Awarded: 2003
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Research
Chanan
Singh
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Year Awarded: 1997
College: Engineering
Award Level: Research
Vijay P.
Singh
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Year Awarded: 2015
Vijay Singh is a professor and the inaugural holder of the Caroline and William N. Lehrer Distinguished Chair in Water Engineering in the Department of Biological & Agricultural Engineering. He joined the faculty of the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences in 2006. He earned his Ph.D. from Colorado State University and his D.Sc. from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa. A world-renowned hydrologist in the area of water resources engineering, he is recognized for his seminal contributions in several key areas, including: watershed modeling, floods and droughts, entropy theory-based modeling, copula-based analysis, risk and reliability analysis, and climate change impacts on water resources. With more than 700 refereed journal articles, 23 books, another 55 edited books, and 80 book chapters, his scholarly contributions have immensely impacted water research and education globally. Dr. Singh has received more than 60 national and international awards for his contributions and professional service, including the Arid Lands Hydraulic Engineering Award; the Torrens Award, the Norman Medal, and the Vent Te Chow Award of the American Society of Civil Engineers; and the R.K. Linsley Award and Founders Award of the American Institute of Hydrology. A supporter writes, “Prof. Singh is always far ahead of his time with interesting and profound ideas which have had a significant impact on the direction and practice of hydrology and water resources. His long contribution to the body of knowledge is stunning.” Another supporter sums up, writing “I truly believe that…when we assess the creative thinkers and doers of this generation of hydrologic engineers that Dr. Singh's name will be among the elite. He is certainly known and respected by everyone currently in the field of hydrologic analysis and design.”
College: College of Engineering
Award Level: Research
Daniel A.
Singleton
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Year Awarded: 2018
Daniel A. Singleton earned a bachelor’s degree from Case Western Reserve University, a doctorate from the University of Minnesota, and was then an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Singleton joined the faculty of the College of Science in 1987 and is a Davidson Professor of Science. He received the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society, and he has received a series of four teaching and mentorship awards at Texas A&M, including The Association of Former Students University-Level Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching and the Wells Fargo Honors Faculty Mentor of the Year. Dr. Singleton is a recognized international leader in two research areas. The first of these is the field of kinetic isotope effects on chemical reactions. In 1995, Dr. Singleton’s group developed methodology for the combinatorial simultaneous measurement of all of the kinetic isotope effects for a reaction at natural abundance. Dr. Singleton then advanced the interpretation of kinetic isotope effects by finding that they could be predicted accurately if the reaction mechanism, transition state geometry, and reaction physics were each accurate. In this way, the combination of experiment and theory provides one of modern chemistry’s most powerful tools for the identification of reaction mechanisms. Dr. Singleton’s second area of leadership is in the area of “dynamic effects” on reactions. Dynamic effects are experimental observations that cannot be explained within the standard statistical paradigms of chemistry. Dr. Singleton’s group has provided the bulk of the experimental evidence for dynamics effects on reactions, and it has been a leader in the development of a theoretical understanding of these phenomena.
College: Department of Chemistry
Award Level: Research
Daniel A.
Singleton
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Year Awarded: 2008
Daniel Singleton joined the faculty of Texas A&M in 1987 and currently holds the rank of Professor of Chemistry and Davidson Professor of Science. He received The Association of Former Students College-Level Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching in 1995, was a University Faculty Fellow (2001-2006), has served as associate editor of the Journal of Organic Chemistry since 2005, and in 2008 was named an Arthur C. Cope Scholar by the American Chemical Society for excellence in organic chemistry. He is the quintessential teacher-scholar, a truly outstanding chemical educator who also has a worldwide reputation in research.
His nominator and supporting letter writers all praise the excellence of his teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, his innovative development of inquiry/discovery methods with an emphasis on green chemistry for the sophomore organic laboratory, his creation of a new graduate course on computational chemistry, and his exceptional involvement in student mentoring activities. One current undergraduate researcher sums it up with a Chinese proverb, “I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand,” in describing how “Doc” has helped her to understand - not just remember – the important things she needs to know to become the organic chemist she intends to be one day.
College: Science
Award Level: Teaching
Jairo
Sinova
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Year Awarded: 2011
Following his Ph.D. in condensed matter physics at Indiana University (1999) and two postdoctoral appointments in condensed matter physics at the University of Tennessee and the University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Jairo Sinova joined the physics faculty at Texas A&M University in 2003. His research interests lie primarily in the fields of spintronics, magnetism, spin transport, ferromagnetic semiconductors, and spin thermoelectric effects. Dr. Sinova is one of the leading researchers in spintronics, a field of physics with strong potential for future technologies. He and coworkers proposed the notion of intrinsic spin Hall effect and formed part of one of the teams that discovered the Spin Hall Effect. He has published in the top journals in science and is among the most prolific scientists in his field with over 60 publications in the past five years and close to 50 invited talks in international meetings around the world. He has mentored several students and postdoctoral fellows, most of who have gone on to academic careers and positions. He was recently elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in recognition for his ground breaking studies in spintronics. He has also received The Association of Former Students’ College-level Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching, the NSF CAREER Award, the Montague-Center for Teaching Excellence Scholar, and the Cottrell Scholar Award from the Research Corporation.
College: Science
Award Level: Research
Chris
Skaggs
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Year Awarded: 1998
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Teaching
Robert
Skrabanek ’42
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Year Awarded: 1982
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Research
Robert
Skrabanek ’42
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Year Awarded: 1995
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Teaching