Andrew C.
Cronk ’66
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Year Awarded: 2004
College: Food Services
Award Level: Staff
Ben
Crouch
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Year Awarded: 1984
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
Elizabeth
Crouch '91
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Year Awarded: 2017
Elizabeth Crouch, assistant dean for undergraduate education and lecturer in the Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, earned her Ph.D. in genetics from Texas A&M University. She joined the Biomedical Sciences Program (BIMS) as an academic advisor in 2001 and rose to the position of director in 2008 and assistant dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in 2014. Among her many duties are to counsel students, supervise the BIMS advising staff, and help set the policies of the program. She has taught 14 semesters at Texas A&M, including 6 semesters of a course she designed: An Introduction to Phenotypic Expression in the Context of Human Medicine. Her current areas of interest are student development/retention, promotion of student research and study abroad, and effective mentoring. Her nominator wrote that Dr. Crouch helps and inspires students, cares deeply about their welfare and development, and meets their individual needs while requiring them to accept their responsibilities and rise to their fullest potentials. Her supporters describe her as a highly engaged administrator who interacts continually with the more than 2,300 high-achieving and diverse undergraduate students in the College. They speak of the sustained, individualized, compassionate help she consistently gives to students. Recurrent themes include her commitment to individuals’ wellbeing, her personalization of guidance to meet individual students’ circumstances and goals, her problem-solving abilities, her attentiveness to detail, her empathy and her interpersonal skills. In the words of a former student who is now in medical school, “Dr. Crouch is one of the most compassionate and caring people that I have ever met….I can honestly say that knowing Dr. Crouch has made me a better man, a better student and a better mentor to others.”
College: College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Award Level: Student Relations
Thomas
Crowley
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Year Awarded: 2001
College: Geosciences
Award Level: Research
Stephen
Curley
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Year Awarded: 1992
College: Geosciences
Award Level: Teaching
Richard
Curry
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Year Awarded: 1998
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
Guy L.
Curry
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Year Awarded: 2010
College: Dwight Look College of Engineering
Award Level: Teaching
Jack Autrey
Dabbs
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Year Awarded: 1974
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Research
Alan
Dabney
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Year Awarded: 2017
Alan Dabney, associate professor of statistics, earned a Ph.D. in biostatistics from the University of Washington. Since joining the College of Science faculty in 2006, Dr. Dabney has dedicated himself to undergraduate teaching. His particular strengths are in transforming complicated material into easily accessible lessons and in developing inventive curriculum that can be used by other faculty. His innovative approach to teaching is exemplified by his creation of an educational video that features him on green screen with special effects as he presents statistics lectures to undergraduates. The video was so successful that Freeman Publishing secured his services for the production of a series of 35 similar video lectures on introductory statistics. Dr. Dabney has co-authored The Cartoon Introduction to Statistics, which presents introductory statistics material in a graphic novel format, effectively using unique visual techniques creatively to teach key concepts of statistics. In addition, he has published a computer simulation in the journal Teaching Statistics that can be used in the classroom to teach introductory statistics. He also was instrumental in the development of the new bachelor of science degree in statistics that he co-advises with a faculty colleague all statistics majors. Dr. Dabney is the recipient of The Association of Former Students College-Level Award for Teaching, the Texas A&M Montague?Center for Teaching Excellence Scholar Award, and the Eppright Professorship in Undergraduate Teaching Excellence. A former undergraduate student wrote this about working on statistics research with Dr. Dabney, “This was a formative experience for me, which revealed to me the excitement and creativity that exists in current statistics research: a perspective that is all too difficult to see when taking a typical introductory statistics class.”
College: Department of Statistics
Award Level: Teaching
Paul Frederick
Dahm
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Year Awarded: 2001
College: Science
Award Level: Student Relations
Stephen H.
Daniel
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Year Awarded: 1992
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
Stephen H.
Daniel
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Year Awarded: 2005
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
Norbert
Dannhaeuser
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Year Awarded: 1999
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
Ronald
Darby
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Year Awarded: 1971
College: Engineering
Award Level: Teaching
Marcetta
Darensbourg
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Year Awarded: 1995
College: Science
Award Level: Research
Marcetta
Darensbourg
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Year Awarded: 2012
At an early age Marcetta Darensbourg discovered science to be a passion that led her to pursue graduate studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana. After earning her Ph.D. in chemistry, academic appointments followed and she eventually rose through the ranks at Tulane University. In 1982, she and her husband joined the faculty at Texas A&M’s College of Science where she built a strong research program in synthetic and mechanistic organometallic chemistry while mentoring nearly 50 graduate students through to Ph.D. status. In addition, she has mentored 13 post-doctoral fellows and has regularly hosted international visiting scientists and exchange students.
Dr. Darensbourg has lectured worldwide and has served as editor-in-chief and co-editor of several inorganic source materials, including a textbook in general chemistry. She has also published more than 220 peer-reviewed journal articles. Her vitae and list of publications attest to her active research career. Although her leadership in research is a major legacy, her most visible “product” is the raft of graduate students who are enjoying successful careers in academia and other professions in the chemical community.
As a testament to her mentoring capabilities, former students write in glowing terms about Dr. Darensbourg’s energy and enthusiasm for her students and profession. One says, “Although my days as a student have been over for many years, Marcetta continues to be a mentor to me as well as to her other former students.” Another says, “Every day I aspire to provide the same supportive but rigorous mentoring that Marcetta gave to me. She instilled in me a thirst for quality, and an appreciation for the sublime in science and in my life. I feel quite lucky to have a mentor of her dedication at a crucial stage of my life.”
College: Science
Award Level: Graduate Mentoring
Akhil
Datta-Gupta
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Year Awarded: 2014
Akhil Datta-Gupta is a Regents Professor and holder of the L.F. Peterson '36 Endowed Chair in Petroleum Engineering. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. He joined the Dwight Look College of Engineering faculty in 1994. He is well known for his contributions to the theory and practice of streamline simulation in petroleum reservoir characterization, management and calibration of high-resolution geologic models. Three-D streamline simulation is considered to be one of the major developments in petroleum reservoir simulation and performance forecasting. Among his numerous awards, Dr. Datta-Gupta has received two of the top three technical awards given by the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and he has twice won the prestigious SPE Cedric K. Ferguson Award. He was elected to membership in the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 2012. He has published more than 75 peer reviewed papers in a series of scientific journals and is the author of 3 books.
A colleague at Texas A&M wrote, “Dr. Akhil Datta-Gupta leads one of the most vigorous, exciting research programs in the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering” and “he has made some of the most significant technological advances in reservoir characterization and simulation of anybody in the oil and gas industry.” A colleague from another university added that the best indicator of Dr. Datta-Gupta’s impact is the fact that the knowledge he and his lab created and the technologies they developed have been incorporated into industry-level workflows and are widely used by the oil and gas industry around the world. Another colleague sums it up saying, “Akhil Datta-Gupta’s work has had a real and lasting impact on the technology of the energy industry, adding significantly to the stability of our energy supply, and encouraging further reservoir characterization research.”
College: College of Engineering
Award Level: Research
Manuel
Davenport
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Year Awarded: 1978
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
Manuel
Davenport
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Year Awarded: 1989
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Teaching
David
David
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Year Awarded: 1994
College: Education and Human Development
Award Level: Teaching
Dan
Davis ’32
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Year Awarded: 1973
College: Liberal Arts
Award Level: Student Relations
Ernest
Davis ’71
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Year Awarded: 1989
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Award Level: Extension/ Continuing Education
Richard
Davis, Jr. ’40
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Year Awarded: 1960
College: Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science
Award Level: Teaching
Richard Read
Davison ’58
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Year Awarded: 1972
College: Engineering
Award Level: Teaching
Darryl
de Ruiter
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Year Awarded: 2016
Darryl de Ruiter, professor of anthropology, earned his Ph.D. in anatomical sciences from the University of the Witswatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He joined the faculty of the College of Liberal Arts in 2003 after completing postdoctoral research with the Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontology in South Africa. Dr. de Ruiter is internationally recognized as a preeminent scholar in the field of paleoanthropology. He has co-authored more than 60 papers in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes, including almost a dozen papers in the journals Science and Nature. His research has been featured on the covers of Science, Time Magazine, Discover Magazine, and Scientific American, as well as on television programs on the National Geographic Channel and in a recent PBS NOVA special. Dr. de Ruiter is one of three principal investigators at the famous Malapa site in South Africa, responsible for analyzing the skulls, jaws, and teeth of the early human ancestor Australopithecus sediba. He serves as a principal investigator at the newly discovered Rising Star Cave fossil site in South Africa, where the remains of dozens of individuals of a new type of human ancestor have been found, which Dr. de Ruiter and his colleagues call Homo naledi. Support letters from around the world indicate that his research is transforming the field of paleoanthropology, saying that he is “doing work at the forefront of human evolutionary studies”; “his actions represent “a new ethos in the discipline”; he is “clearly at the top of his field and deserving of recognition for excellence in research”; his work “has been groundbreaking” and brings “a never-before held, detailed understanding of early hominin behavior; and “the breadth and impact” of his “work has been equaled by very few” in the field.
College: College of Liberal Arts
Award Level: Research
W. Les
Dees ’71
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Year Awarded: 1996
College: Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science
Award Level: Research
Michael D.
Delp
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Year Awarded: 2005
College: Education and Human Development
Award Level: Research