Thomas
Tanksley, Jr. ’46
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Year Awarded: 1971
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Teaching
David
Szymanski
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Year Awarded: 1995
College: Business
Award Level: Teaching
William
Synder
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Year Awarded: 1982
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
John
Sweeten
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Year Awarded: 1986
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Extension/ Continuing Education
Todd
Sutherland ’90
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Year Awarded: 2009
College: Texas A&M University at Galveston
Award Level: Individual Student Relationships
Nicholas
Suntzeff
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Year Awarded: 2012
Nicholas Suntzeff joined the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy in Texas A&M’s College of Science in 2006. He presently holds the Mitchell/Heep/Munnerlyn Chair in Observational Astronomy. He earned his Ph.D. in astronomy and astrophysics from the University of California at Santa Cruz and Lick Observatory. Before coming to Texas A&M, he was the associate director for science at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Chile.
In 1994 he co-founded the high-Z Supernova Team, which discovered the accelerating expansion of the universe through observations of distant supernovae in 1998. This discovery revolutionized cosmology and our understanding of the universe and identified an entirely new and unanticipated component of the universe, now commonly referred to as “dark energy.” This work was the basis for the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. Overall, the body of his research results has helped reveal a universe that was mostly previously unknown. The findings demonstrated that our knowledge of the universe is wildly incomplete and helped to point the direction for major astronomy and particle physics experiments in the coming decades.
At Texas A&M, Dr. Suntzeff established an astronomy component in the Department of Physics and coordinated Texas A&M’s participation in the Giant Magellan Telescope Project. He plays major leadership roles in the astronomy research community. He has published more than 230 articles in refereed journals and has more than 25,000 citations. His awards include the ISI Highly Cited Scientist Award in 2003 and the Gruber Prize for Cosmology in 2007. In 2010, he began a 3-year term as Vice President of the American Astronomical Society. In 2011, he was a Jefferson Senior Science Fellow in the Office of Human Rights at the U.S. Department of State.
College: Science
Award Level: Research
Max
Summers
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Year Awarded: 1983
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Research
Ching-Yun
Suen
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Year Awarded: 2015
Ching-Yun Suen earned his Ph.D. from the University of Houston. After teaching there and at Texas A&M University, he joined the faculty of Texas A&M at Galveston in 1984. His outstanding reputation as a teacher stems from his deep commitment to the teaching profession and his lasting influence on his students. Dr. Suen is loved by his students. He is known for treating them with respect and devotion. A former department head writes that there were always students coming to Dr. Suen’s office and that he spent endless hours helping them to understand mathematics. A colleague adds that Dr. Suen brings “enthusiasm into all his classes” as evidenced by his excellent course evaluations and glowing comments from students. A former student commented that he remembers how much he “enjoyed his class and how easy he made understanding calculus.” But perhaps the most touching endorsement is that of a former student who wrote a strong letter of support for Dr. Suen despite the fact that she was just released from the hospital following a second heart transplant. During her freshman year, the student was diagnosed with heart failure and could not attend classes. She was given “incompletes” in most of her courses, but her Calculus I professor required her to take the final exam. Although not the professor in question, Dr. Suen volunteered to tutor her three times a week for four weeks at her parents’ home, which required him to travel from Galveston to Sugar Land, Texas, each time. With his help, she passed the course and ultimately graduated. She writes, “He went above and beyond to help a student like me with special circumstances, and I know I would not have passed the final exam without his help. He is a very generous, kind and caring teacher.” A colleague sums up, saying, “Dr. Suen is an outstanding teacher and a valued member of our department.”
College: Texas A&M Galveston-General Academics
Award Level: Teaching
Camilla
Sturdivant '85
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Year Awarded: 2016
Camilla “Camy” Sturdivant is the associate director of the Department of Biology’s Lower Division Instruction Program (BLDP). She joined the Texas A&M staff in 1989 and the Department of Biology in 2005. She earned a B.S. in animal science from Texas A&M University. As associate director of the BLDP, she has primary responsibility for all aspects of the direct administration, coordination, and functioning of the five different 100-level and two 200-level biology courses. She directly supervises the BLDP technical and office staff and has administrative responsibility for more than 100 teaching staff, ranging from teaching assistants to full professors. The expectations of the associate director cover every aspect of a laboratory science teaching program that accommodates more than 5,000 students per year. Her nominators—the officers of the College of Science Dean’s Student Advisory Panel—wrote that no one epitomizes Texas A&M’s core values more than Ms. Sturdivant. They describe her as having a “kind and supportive demeanor and can-do attitude,” and being “positive, thorough, fair, respectful and selfless.” Her supervisor concurs and praised her ability to respond to and make accommodations for emergencies, including hurricanes (twice) and bomb threats (building closure and cancelled sections), and always doing her job with “personal dedication to the program,” “tireless efforts to improve all aspects of the program,” “sincere concern for the quality of instruction in our freshman and sophomore-level courses,” and “commitment to making the program efficient, effective and congenial for all students, faculty and staff.” Ms. Sturdivant’s previous honors include the Department of Biology Outstanding Staff Award, the College of Science Outstanding Staff Award, and the President’s Meritorious Staff Award.
College: College of Science
Award Level: Staff
Bjarne
Stroustrup
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Year Awarded: 2009
College: Dwight Look College of Engineering
Award Level: Research
James
Stricklin
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Year Awarded: 1971
College: Engineering
Award Level: Research
Richard L.
Street, Jr.
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Year Awarded: 2010
College: College of Liberal Arts
Award Level: Research
Jerry
Strawser ’83
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Year Awarded: 2009
College: Mays Business School
Award Level: Administration
Robert
Strawser
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Year Awarded: 1985
College: Business
Award Level: Research
Anthony
Stranges
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Year Awarded: 1988
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
Velda
Stout
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Year Awarded: 1963
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Extension/ Continuing Education
George
Stott
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Year Awarded: 1984
College: Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science
Award Level: Teaching
Ralph W.
Storts
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Year Awarded: 2004
College: Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science
Award Level: Teaching
J. Benton
Storey
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Year Awarded: 1996
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Teaching
Carlton
Stolle ’65
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Year Awarded: 1977
College: Business
Award Level: Student Relations
Carlton
Stolle ’65
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Year Awarded: 1989
College: Business
Award Level: Teaching
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Veronica
Stilley '90
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Year Awarded: 2017
Veronica Stilley is the primary conduit of information and procedures for students in Department of Information and Operations Management (INFO). Her duties include managing the Student Services Office, supervising the academic advisors, advising undergraduate and master’s students, supervising master’s admissions processing, assisting with Ph.D. admissions processing, maintaining student and applicant records, scheduling departmental courses, coordinating course catalog updates, and hiring, placing and supervising graduate teaching assistants. She has been at Texas A&M University for eight years. She earned a bachelor’s in Educational Curriculum and Instruction and a master’s in Educational Administration from Texas A&M University and joined the staff of the Mays Business School in 2009. She previously served as an academic coordinator at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, and as a teacher in Longview and in New Braunfels. She is a three-time recipient of the INFO Department Staff Service Excellence Award, and a recipient of both the Mays Business School Star Performer Award and the Mays Business School Outstanding Staff Achievement Award. Ms. Stilley continually goes beyond her assigned job duties. She also volunteers her time to programs for the wider university and the City of College Station. Her nominators wrote that “…she continually goes beyond her assigned job duties. Not merely performing them with excellence, but creating new and interesting opportunities, and anticipating and solving problems before the rest of us are aware of potential issues.”
College: Department of Information and Operations Management
Award Level: Staff
Norman
Stewart, Jr. ’37
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Year Awarded: 1969
College: Business
Award Level: Teaching
Lane
Stephenson
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Year Awarded: 1983
College: Public Information
Award Level: Staff
Jörg M.
Steiner ’00
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Year Awarded: 2013
Jörg Steiner received his veterinary degree from the University of Munich and after additional clinical training achieved board certification with both the American and the European Colleges of Veterinary Internal Medicine. He joined the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in 1997 and in 2000 earned his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. He holds joint appointments in the Departments of Small Animal Clinical Sciences and Veterinary Pathobiology and serves as director of the Gastrointestinal Laboratory.
Dr. Steiner is involved in small animal gastroenterology research and mentors more than 10 graduate students. He has authored or coauthored more than 175 peer-reviewed articles, 70 book chapters and 270 research abstracts. He has edited a textbook that has been translated into five languages and holds the patent for a technology that is the basis for a new gold-standard test for the diagnosis of pancreatitis in both dogs and cats. Currently almost a million animals are tested every year using this technology. He was awarded the Bourgelat Award for truly outstanding international contributions to the field of small animal practice by the British Small Animal Veterinary Association. He has also received the Pfizer Animal Health for Research Excellence Award and is a Fellow of the American Gastroenterology Association. Currently there are approximately 1,900 fellows of the AGA, but only 5 of those are veterinarians and Dr. Steiner is one of only two veterinarians serving at a veterinary college rather than a research institute of a human medical facility.
His nominator concludes that Dr. Steiner is a good teacher, an outstanding gastroenterologist, and an excellent researcher. “The scope and quality of his research and the wide and continuing application of his discoveries . . . reflect positively on the College of Veterinary Medicine and Texas A&M University.”
College: Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences
Award Level: Research
Douglas
Starr
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Year Awarded: 1998
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
J. Wayne
Stark ’39
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Year Awarded: 1968
College: MSC
Award Level: Student Relations
Robert
Stanton, Jr.
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Year Awarded: 1985
College: Geosciences
Award Level: Research