Robert
Berg
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Year Awarded: 1977
College: Geosciences
Award Level: Research
Robert
Berg
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Year Awarded: 1983
College: Geosciences
Award Level: Teaching
David E.
Bergbreiter
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Year Awarded: 1997
College: Science
Award Level: Teaching
David E.
Bergbreiter
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Year Awarded: 2008
David Bergbreiter joined the Texas A&M faculty in 1974 and currently holds the title of Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering. An internationally recognized organic chemist, Dr. Bergbreiter has made seminal contributions in fields as diverse as asymmetric synthesis, enzymatic catalysis, polymer synthesis, surface chemistry, and metal-catalyzed organic reactions. He is particularly noted for innovative new catalyst recycling technologies, many of which involve polymers and/or biphasic systems, and have attracted intense interest from industry. He has over 225 refereed research publications, over 500 invited lectures at academic and industrial laboratories, meetings and symposia, and has served on numerous editorial board, government panels and advisory committees
According to his nominator, “Bergbreiter has always asserted that the best vehicle for teaching is research, and he has excelled as a mentor of undergraduates and graduate students.” He has trained 42 postdoctoral and 38 graduate students and supervised 48 undergraduate researchers, and his publications feature more than 32 undergraduate co-authors. He has been honored by Texas A&M with The Association of Former Students College-Level Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching (1983), The Association of Former Students University-Level Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching (1997), an Eppright University Professorship for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence (2002-2007), and the university’s most prestigious teaching award, the Presidential Professor for Teaching Excellence, in 2006.
College: Science
Award Level: Research
Robert
Berridge
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Year Awarded: 1978
College: Education and Human Development
Award Level: Extension
Leonard L.
Berry
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Year Awarded: 2008
Leonard L. Berry came to Texas A&M in 1982. He presently is a Distinguished Professor of Marketing and holds the M.B. Zale Chair in Retailing and Marketing Leadership in the Mays Business School. He is also Professor of Humanities in Medicine in the College of Medicine, Health Science Center. He served as a Visiting Scientist at Mayo Clinic studying healthcare service in 2001-2002.
Professor Berry’s newest book is Management Lessons from Mayo Clinic which will be published in June 2008 by McGraw-Hill. He also is the author of Discovering the Soul of Service and On Great Service, among other books, as well as numerous journal articles. A former national president of the American Marketing Association, Dr. Berry received in 2007 the highest honor in the academic marketing discipline: the AMA/McGraw-Hill/Irwin Distinguished Marketing Educator Award. He also is a recipient of the Paul D. Converse Award, the Outstanding Marketing Educator Award from the Academy of Marketing Science, and the Career Contributions to Services Marketing Award.
This is Dr. Berry’s third Association of Former Students University-Level Distinguished Achievement Award. He has previously won in the category of Research (in 1996) and in Teaching (in 1990). The University also honored Professor Berry by selecting him as a University Distinguished Lecturer for 2002-2003.
College: Business
Award Level: Research
Leonard L.
Berry
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Year Awarded: 1990
College: Business
Award Level: Teaching
Leonard L.
Berry
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Year Awarded: 1996
College: Business
Award Level: Research
W.T.
Berry, Jr. ’42
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Year Awarded: 1960
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Teaching
Dennis A.
Berthold
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Year Awarded: 1977
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
Dennis A.
Berthold
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Year Awarded: 2005
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
Clint
Bertrand ’52
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Year Awarded: 2000
College: Engineering
Award Level: Student Relations
David A.
Bessler
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Year Awarded: 2006
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Graduate Mentoring
David
Bessler
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Year Awarded: 2016
David Bessler, professor of agricultural economics and Regents Professor, joined the faculty of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in 1982. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis. Before coming to Texas A&M, he was a member of the faculty of Purdue University. Dr. Bessler is credited with the creation and use of time-series modeling approaches for forecasting the effects of policy, environmental, and market forces on agricultural prices, production, and consumption. His accomplishments and discoveries in this area have transformed applied economic modeling, provided great societal benefit, and have been acknowledged not only within agricultural economics but also more broadly in the fields of economics, finance, management science, and computer science. He has published 136 refereed journal articles, and his work has been widely recognized by colleagues through numerous awards and honors, including being named a Distinguished Fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association and a Distinguished Scholar of the Western Agricultural Economic Association. He has also received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southern Agricultural Economics Association and The Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award for Graduate Mentoring, and was named a Simon Fellow in Econometrics at Victoria University of Manchester, U.K. His accomplishments are highly regarded by international leaders in agricultural economics. A colleague from the Sorbonne wrote, “Professor Bessler has revolutionized econometric thinking in matters of causal models.” Another colleague from the University of California, Davis, wrote that his “work has had a profound influence on the profession in price forecasting, analysis of futures markets, modeling of trade flows and measurement of integration of markets to name just a few.”
College: College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Research
Gerald R.
Betty ’73
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Year Awarded: 2006
College:
Award Level: Student Relations
John
Beverly ’62
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Year Awarded: 1972
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Extension/ Continuing Education
Billy
Bielamowicz
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Year Awarded: 2001
College: Rudder Theater Complex
Award Level: Staff
Mary K.
Bielamowicz ’88
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Year Awarded: 2004
College: TAEX
Award Level: Continuing Education/Extension
Ben
Bigelow '05
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Year Awarded: 2017
Ben Bigelow is an assistant professor in the Construction Science Department where he also serves as the Graduate Program Coordinator and a Center for Housing and Urban Development Fellow. After earning his Ph.D. from Colorado State University, he joined the faculty of the College of Architecture in 2012. Formerly a homebuilder and remodeling contractor, Dr. Bigelow pursues research in all areas of residential construction and has particular interest in affordable and sustainable housing. He also conducts research relating to: underrepresented groups in construction management, the workforce shortage, construction finance, preconstruction, and construction education. He teaches courses in Estimating as well as a Residential Capstone course. Since his arrival in the department, Dr. Bigelow has consistently and effectively been engaged in interdisciplinary initiatives. One course of particular note, “Special Topics: Design Build Community Service” (aka, the tiny house project), provides students with a high-impact learning experience that focuses on 1) a real project from initial planning to completion and delivery to client; 2) learning centered on the design process, the role of the designers and good design in construction; and 3) community service that extends learning beyond the university and academic environment. A current student wrote that Dr. Bigelow demonstrates “special concern for the education of every student by challenging ideas, providing resources for explanation and adapting his activities and teaching style to the benefit of every student.” Another student added, “I am proud to have him as a professor in our program not only because of his work as a professor but also because of the compassion he shows his students and the community around him.”
College: Department of Construction Science
Award Level: Teaching
Minnette
Bilbo
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Year Awarded: 2016
Minnette Bilbo is the business administrator in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. She joined the Texas A&M University staff in 1975 and has held progressively responsible positions throughout her 41 years with the university. Her nominator wrote that there are many ways in which her service and ability exceed the usual duties of her job and emphasized that one of her most valuable assets is “her nearly encyclopedic knowledge” of all aspects of business in the department. “There are hundreds of accounts and sub-accounts under the Department of Physics and Astronomy and she knows what all of them are and to whom they are assigned.” In addition, she is known as “a master of all Texas A&M’s various procedures: Concur, Aggie-Buy (and now BAM).” But the hallmark of Ms. Bilbo’s service to the department is her willingness and ability to work with principal investigators (PIs). The department has 72 faculty members, so the number of PIs is large. She works with each one to carefully organize their array of funding streams to maximize productivity. Ms. Bilbo is also the supervisor for other staff members who coordinate purchasing, travel, and payroll. But she is no ordinary supervisor. She is a master of all the functions that report to her and gladly steps in to fill the gap if a member of her team is out. Ms. Bilbo’s management makes the most difficult staffing days appear to be “business as usual.” In addition, she is very involved in the department’s outreach program, the Physics and Engineering Festival. During the festival, the department hosts about 4,000 visitors for a full day of hands-on demonstrations and talks. Such a program works only because of the large number of student, faculty, and staff volunteers. Ms. Bilbo organizes food for the volunteers and handles countless other logistical details. In sum, her supporters agree that “Ms. Bilbo has a profound dedication to Aggieland.”
College: College of Science
Award Level: Staff
Wade
Birch
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Year Awarded: 1997
College: Student Services
Award Level: Staff
Gladys
Bishop
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Year Awarded: 1969
College: Staff
Award Level: Student Relations
Wesley
Bissett '97
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Year Awarded: 2016
Wesley Bissett is an associate professor of food animal medicine and director of the Texas A&M Veterinary Emergency Team (VET) in the Department of Veterinary Large Animal Clinical Services. He earned his D.V.M. and his Ph.D. in microbiology from Texas A&M. Before joining the faculty of the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (CVM) in 2000, he was in private practice. Following the experiences of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on the campus and region, Dr. Bissett began to focus on disaster preparedness and response. He became a leader in the CVM’s new initiative to respond to animal issues during emergencies and disasters. In 2009, Hurricane Ike struck Texas and initiated the formation of the VET at the request of the Texas Animal Health Commission and Division of Emergency Management. Dr. Bissett has been the Director of the VET since its inception and has presided over the development of a 38-person team with assets valued in excess of $2 million. In addition, he has led the development of the nation’s first required clinical rotation in emergency preparedness and response. Dr. Bissett and his team of volunteer faculty, staff, and students have been deployed to provide aid following the 2011 Bastrop Complex Wildfire, a 2012 Brazos Country Alzheimer’s patient search, the 2013 West, Texas, fertilizer plant explosion, the 2014 response to the Dallas-Ft. Worth Ebola Outbreak, and the 2015 Wimberley Floods. The deployments have provided an exceptional educational experience for students while simultaneously serving the citizens of Texas. The impact the VET has on students revolves around the understanding that Aggies are committed to selfless service. The chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management summed up, writing that rarely “has one person in the emergency management community inspired so many to be better for the greater good than Dr. Bissett.”
College: College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Award Level: Extension, Outreach, Continuing Ed, & Prof Dev
Shirley
Black
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Year Awarded: 1983
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
Homer
Blackhurst ’40
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Year Awarded: 1977
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Teaching
Terry
Blanchard
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Year Awarded: 2001
College: Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science
Award Level: Teaching
Ron
Blatchley
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Year Awarded: 1983
College: Student Affairs
Award Level: Student Relations