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
Jeffry A.
Simpson
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Year Awarded: 2003
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Research
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
John
Siebert
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Year Awarded: 2010
College: College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Teaching
Fred
Sicilio
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Year Awarded: 1985
College: Science
Award Level: Student Relations
Robert
Shutes
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Year Awarded: 1975
College: Education and Human Development
Award Level: Student Relations
C. Richard
Shumway
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Year Awarded: 1989
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Research
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
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
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
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
Winston
Shearon, Jr.
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Year Awarded: 1991
College: Business
Award Level: Teaching
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
Peter
Sharpe
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Year Awarded: 1984
College: Engineering
Award Level: Research
John
Shadduck
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Year Awarded: 1995
College: Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science
Award Level: Administration
Jane
Sell ’74
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Year Awarded: 1991
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
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
Donald
Seaman
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Year Awarded: 1979
College: Education and Human Development
Award Level: Extension/ Continuing Education
W. Leon
Scrutchfield ’79
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Year Awarded: 1997
College: Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science
Award Level: Teaching
Charles
Scifres
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Year Awarded: 1980
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Research
John
Schwarz
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Year Awarded: 2012
John Schwarz is professor and head of the Department of Marine Biology and director of the Seafood Safety Laboratory at Texas A&M University at Galveston. He earned his Ph.D. in molecular biology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1972 after which he studied deep-sea bacteria as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Maryland. He joined the faculty of Texas A&M University at Galveston in January 1976. He has taught both microbiology and genetics each semester for 30 of his 36 years with TAMUG, and continues to teach microbiology each long term.
Dr. Schwarz is known as tireless and gifted teacher who has a true passion for teaching and a contagious, positive energy that makes students eager to learn. At an island university, where the beach is always calling, his passion for his subject and his enthusiasm for teaching motivate students to come to class even when the beach is calling most loudly. To illustrate his passion and enthusiasm, two students fondly recall a specific class when he gave an animated portrayal of a centrifuge.
His nominator says that Dr. Schwarz genuinely cares for the wellbeing of his students and has an uncanny ability to notice even the most subtle indications that something is amiss. He always goes out of his way to ask how students are doing and then takes the time to advise them on academic issues or point them to resources to help them with personal issues.
A colleague writes, John Schwarz’s “reputation is often expressed in two words: hard and fair. For many years, his rigorous teaching has made TAMUG a better place for students.” In sum, “He is a distinguished teacher in the best tradition of Texas A&M University.”
College: Texas A&M University at Galveston
Award Level: Teaching
Courtney
Schumacher
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Year Awarded: 2011
Dr. Courtney Schumacher came to Texas A&M in 2003 after receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Washington. Dr. Schumacher studies tropical and radar meteorology with the overall goal of understanding how storm systems interact with the large-scale atmospheric circulation and climate. She is the recipient of the NSF CAREER award and NASA's New Investigator Program award. Both of these awards require demonstrated dedication to the pursuit of being an exemplary teacher-scholar. She also actively works on projects funded by the Department of Energy and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Dr. Schumacher has been a strong advocate of students and has been recognized for these efforts through the College of Geosciences Dean's Distinguished Teaching Award and Robert C. Runnels Excellence in Advising Award. Her university-wide recognition includes being a Fish Camp Namesake and special recognition by the Women Former Students' Network. Dr. Schumacher has served on numerous national committees dealing with student awards and fellowships, is active in minority recruitment in the STEM fields, and was chosen as a science hero by the MY HERO project.
One former student wrote, “…her enthusiasm, energy, and passion for teaching and research are infectious and inspiring. She has the ability to get students excited about class material, challenge them to go beyond the classroom, and even inspire them to pursue research, which are qualities that only great professors possess.”
Another former student wrote, “Dr. Schumacher has demonstrated to me that she is an extraordinary communicator and an advocate for undergraduate research and training opportunities. On top of this, she is an amazing mentor and dedicated role model who is always just an email, phone call, or office visit away.”
Another student commented, “Her priority is clearly her students, and it is evident through the time and effort she devotes in making sure they succeed. She appeals to all learning styles through the use of her clear and concise notes, explanation of concepts, and visual aids such as radar images. Her lab assignments push students to think beyond the classroom and "think outside the box" by applying techniques and ideas learned in lecture to actual real time data.”
College: Geosciences
Award Level: Teaching
Roger
Schultz
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Year Awarded: 2001
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
Friedhelm
Schroeder
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Year Awarded: 2001
College: Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science
Award Level: Research
Ralph
Schoolcraft
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Year Awarded: 2007
Ralph Schoolcraft earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in French. He taught at the University of Oklahoma, where he was awarded the Cecil Woods Award for Excellence in Teaching. He was then named Visiting Professor of French for one year at the Université Blaise Pascal in France. At Texas A&M, Schoolcraft created the first university-wide reciprocal exchange in France, at the Université de Caen in Normandy.
Dr. Schoolcraft has been an exemplary classroom teacher since his arrival at Texas A&M. Outside the classroom, he has devoted himself tirelessly to mentoring students, offering them invaluable advice and support in pursuing study abroad opportunities, graduate school options and career choices. He is truly both a mentor and friend to Texas A&M students, both inside and outside the College of Liberal Arts.
In addition to his work with students, Dr. Schoolcraft has written a biography, Romain Gary: The Man Who Sold His Shadow (2002), and translated a book by Henry Rousso, The Haunting Past: History, Memory and Justice in Contemporary France (UPenn, 2002). His articles have appeared in venues such as PMLA, SubStance, MLN, Cahiers de l’Herne, and South Central Review, as well as in numerous French scholarly journals. He is currently working on three books simultaneously.
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching