Neville
Carter
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Year Awarded: 1984
College: Science
Award Level: Research
Kent
Carter ’82
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Year Awarded: 2009
College: College of Veterinary Medicine
Award Level: Extension, Outreach, Cont. Ed, and Prof. Devel.
Thomas
Cartwright ’54
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Year Awarded: 1962
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Teaching
Tammi
Caskey
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Year Awarded: 1993
College: Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science
Award Level: Staff
Lavelle
Castle
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Year Awarded: 1965
College: Staff
Award Level: Student Relations
Pierre J.
Catala
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Year Awarded: 2002
College: Engineering
Award Level: Teaching
James C.
Cathey '91
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Year Awarded: 2015
James Cathey earned his Ph.D. from Texas Tech University. Chief among his many roles is extension wildlife specialist for the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service—a role he fulfills as associate professor and associate department head in the Department of Wildlife & Fisheries Sciences. He joined the department in 2002 and AgriLife Extension in 2005. He has authored 68 publication and fostered development of many social media outlets. He provides expertise to Texas landowners, agricultural producers, and county extension agents in 71 counties, often about grassland restoration, northern bobwhite, wild pigs, Rio Grande wild turkey, and urban deer. He is a member of the Wildlife Society and past president of the Texas chapter. He has been Texas Wildlife Association director since 2008 and serves as an instructor for education events in its Conservation Legacy program. Dr. Cathey provides leadership to the Texas Master Naturalists program, which has received several national and state awards. His technical articles have been recognized by the Texas Section of the Society of Range Management and the Texas Chapter of the Wildlife Society, while his teamwork earned the 2014 national extension “Working Differently in Extension” award for achievements of the Feral Hogg Community of Practice. His nominator says Dr. Cathey is “energetic, personable, highly motivated, and committed to excellence,” and an “exemplary extension educator with exceptional mastery of wildlife science, outstanding communication skills, extraordinary productivity, resilient team leadership, and commitment to outreach education.” A supporter credits his leadership for the success of the state’s award-winning “rainwater harvesting task force.” Another supporter concludes, “…the impact of his vision, innovative strategies, and accomplishments is seen now and will continue in the years to come from the next generation of landowners and natural resource professionals he has prepared and empowered to ‘carry the torch.’”
College: College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Extension, Outreach, Continuing Ed, & Prof Dev
Jerald A.
Caton
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Year Awarded: 2008
Professor Caton has been teaching at TAMU since September 1979 in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He teaches in the areas of thermodynamics, heat transfer and fluid mechanics with applications concerning engines and power plants. Over this period of time, Professor Caton has continued to strive to be a more effective instructor, to share his passion for these subjects, and to motivate his students. He is highly regarded by his students, and his evaluations reflect his conscientious and rigorous teaching style. Comments typically made by his students are that Professor Caton is well-organized, enthusiastic, and knows his material. Some students rate him highly even though they note that his grading is uncommonly strict. A Fellow of both ASME and SAE, he manages to blend results from his research with the subject material to both illustrate relevance and to provide motivation, and his student appreciate the helpfulness of the “real-world” examples.
Professor Caton is a leader who has developed new courses, teaches undergraduates well, mentors graduate students and junior faculty, and excels with nationally important research and study. He is an award-winner who has received the Society of Automotive Engineers national Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award (1990) and the departmental Peggy L. and Charles L. Brittan (’65) Teaching Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching (2000).
College: Engineering
Award Level: Teaching
Frank D.
Cervantez ’92
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Year Awarded: 2008
Frank Cervantez is one of those exceptional individuals who goes well beyond the realm of their normal job responsibilities and promotes good working relationships among faculty, staff and students. He served in the United States Marine Corps for over 29 years, reaching the rank of Chief Warrant Officer IV, and he is a veteran of Desert Storm/Shield. A 1993 graduate of Texas A&M University, Mr. Cervantez worked part-time as a laboratory technician while pursuing his degree and then joined the full-time technical team of the ETID department immediately after completing his degree in Engineering Technology. As a former student, he has a great appreciation for the importance of the laboratory work as it supports the theory learned in the classroom instruction and firsthand experience in the challenge of maintaining the equipment in these labs. Receiving several promotions throughout his career, he now holds the position of Technical Laboratory Manager.
Mr. Cervantez has worked tirelessly to improve the quality of the laboratories while maintaining a safe working environment. He uses his military training expertise to improve the training of student workers and graduate students in the operation of equipment and lab procedures. Dr. Richard Alexander, former department head, states “from time to time his leadership training and experience in the Marine Corps came in handy when he was dealing with particularly challenging people or situations.” Mr. Cervantez is committed to ensuring that the students gain valuable experience in the laboratory and that the faculty can pursue research in a functional and safe environment. “He is a truly outstanding role model for what hard work and determination can do in achieving one’s goals, states Dr. Joseph Morgan, Victor H. Thompson Endowed Professor.
College: Engineering
Award Level: Staff
Alfred
Chalk ’36
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Year Awarded: 1967
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
Thomas
Champney
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Year Awarded: 1997
College: Medicine
Award Level: Teaching
Ping
Chang
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Year Awarded: 2003
College: Geosciences
Award Level: Research
Robert
Chapkin
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Year Awarded: 2011
Dr. Robert Chapkin’s outstanding research program has been recognized repeatedly with an impressive list of awards which places him in the highest echelons of his profession including: NIH "First Award", July 1989 June 1994; PEW National Nutrition Program Faculty Scholar, 1991-1992; American Society for Nutritional Sciences (ASNS) Bio Serv Award in Experimental Animal Nutrition, 1996; Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Faculty Fellow Award (TAES), 2000; Texas A&M University Faculty Fellow Award, 2001-2005; Sigma Xi Distinguished Scientist Award, Texas A&M University Chapter, 2006; Senior Faculty Fellow Award, TAES, 2007; Vegetable & Fruit Improvement Center, Texas AgriLife Research Director’s Award, 2009; and the Texas A&M University System Regents Fellow, 2010.
His expertise spans the fields of integrative nutrition, cancer biology, and immunology. He has published 167 peer reviewed manuscripts, including 12 invited reviews, written 21 book chapters, and published 216 abstracts. The fact that his papers have been cited over 4,500 times and have an h-index of 37 clearly demonstrates that he has had a significant impact and has achieved the highest level of scholarship and academic leadership. Dr. Chapkin has also served on the editorial boards of five scientific journals, i.e., Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids (1989-Present), Journal of Nutrition (2002-2004), Chemistry and Physics of Lipids (2005- present), Cell Communication Insights (2008-present), and the British Journal of Nutrition (2010-present). He has given 85 invited talks at academic institutions, as well as national and international meetings. His research program is one of the most well-funded, innovative and productive programs in the College. He has received $10.5 million as PI ($32+ million as PI, co-PI and collaborator combined) in funding from the NIH, USDA and other agencies. Over the past five years, Dr. Chapkin has received funds that amount to over $6 million as PI and $22 million overall.
College: College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Research
Robert S.
Chapkin
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Year Awarded: 2017
Robert Chapkin is also a Regents Professor and University Faculty Fellow in the Program in Integrative Nutrition and Complex Diseases of the Department of Nutrition & Food Science. He joined the faculty of the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in 1988. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis, where he also completed postdoctoral work. Dr. Chapkin is an expert in dietary chemoprevention of colon cancer and inflammatory bowel diseases. He has made highly significant contributions to cancer chemoprevention and membrane biology with specific emphasis in intestinal stem cells and their modulation by environmental/botanical agents, and the development of novel noninvasive Systems Biology-based methodologies to assess crosstalk between the gut microbiome and host and its application to translational research. He has published more than 250 peer-reviewed articles in nutrition, immunology, membrane biology, cancer biology, and predictive biomarkers. His numerous awards include the R35 Outstanding Investigator Award from the National Cancer Institute, the Osborne and Mendel Award from the American Society for Nutrition, and The Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award—Research. His nominators say that excellence for teaching and research faculty can be measured in a variety of ways, including peer-reviewed publications and scholarly contributions. But for Dr. Chapkin, excellence extends beyond those standard metrics to include the large number of students, post-docs and young faculty protégés he has mentored. They wrote, “He not only trained these individuals in the knowledge necessary, but also served as an excellent example of the type of motivation, acumen, and enthusiasm necessary to be successful and reach their professional goals.”
College: Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences
Award Level: Graduate Mentoring
Haipeng "Allan"
Chen
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Year Awarded: 2016
Haipeng “Allan” Chen is associate professor of marketing, Mays Research Fellow, and director of the Ph.D. Program in Marketing. He joined the faculty of the Mays Business School in 2007 after earning his Ph.D. in business administration from the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities). He conducts research in the area of behavioral decision theory, and his research interests focus on examining decision biases of individual consumers and managers, and their economic and cultural ramifications. Dr. Chen enjoys a reputation as an outstanding teacher at both the undergraduate and graduate levels who upholds high academic standards; demonstrates a high level of commitment, dedication, and passion for excellence; makes a concerted effort to provide the most relevant and current knowledge to his students; and motivates his students to be eager and committed learners for life. One former student wrote that every time she stepped into to Dr. Chen’s class, she knew three things would happen. She would learn something she was actually interested in. She would feel like a better student. And Dr. Chen would give the lesson his all. She concluded that his focus was not just to make his students better marketers but instead to make them better people. A doctoral student commented that Dr. Chen “draws every student’s attention with his clearly organized lectures, sharp thinking, expressive body language, and a friendly smile.” Another former student wrote that, in her marketing role at Union Pacific Railroad, she uses the lessons she learned from Dr. Chen on a daily basis. She also lauded Dr. Chen for making learning “exhilarating and enjoyable.”
College: Mays Business School
Award Level: Teaching
Jianer
Chen
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Year Awarded: 2007
Jianer Chen received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (New York University) in 1987, and a Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from Columbia University in 1990. At that time he joined the Department of Computer Science at Texas A&M University where he is currently a Professor and the Head of Graduate Admissions. Dr. Chen assisted Department Head, Dr. Valerie Taylor, in initiating a Graduate Student Annual Review program and an Invited Graduate Admission program for the department. He has developed a teaching technique MIIP (Motivation-Intuition-Interaction-Application) that successfully motivates students’ desire to learn.
Dr. Chen’s research interests include theoretical computer science, computer graphics, computer networks, and bioinformatics. He has published over 150 research papers in these areas, including over 60 journal papers and over 80 referenced conference papers. His research has been continuously supported by the National Science Foundation. He has received numerous research and teaching awards, including being a four-time recipient of the Graduate Teaching Excellence Award, which is voted on by graduate students in the department.
College: Engineering
Award Level: Teaching
Robert
Chenoweth ’47
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Year Awarded: 1975
College: Engineering
Award Level: Student Relations
Dara
Childs
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Year Awarded: 1993
College: Engineering
Award Level: Research
Bhanu
Chowdhary
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Year Awarded: 2006
College: Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science
Award Level: Research
Larry
Claborn ’59
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Year Awarded: 1990
College: Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science
Award Level: Teaching
David E.
Claridge
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Year Awarded: 2003
College: Engineering
Award Level: Research
Donald Raye
Clark
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Year Awarded: 1972
College: Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science
Award Level: Teaching
Robert
Clark
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Year Awarded: 2000
College: Science
Award Level: Extension/ Continuing Education
William
Clark
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Year Awarded: 1990
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
Abraham
Clearfield
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Year Awarded: 1985
College: Science
Award Level: Research