Deborah and Franklin Haimo Awards for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics
award for teaching mathematics
The Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Awards for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics are awards given by the Mathematical Association of America to recognize college or university teachers "who have been widely recognized as extraordinarily successful and whose teaching effectiveness has been shown to have had influence beyond their own institutions." The Haimo awards are the highest teaching honor bestowed by the MAA. The awards were established in 1993 by Deborah Tepper Haimo and named after Haimo and her husband Franklin Haimo. After the first year of the award (when seven awards were given) up to three awards are given every year.
Winners
The winners of the award have been:
1993: Joseph Gallian, Robert V. Hogg, Anne Hudson, Frank Morgan, V. Frederick Rickey, Doris Schattschneider, and Philip D. Straffin Jr.
1994: Paul Halmos, Justin Jesse Price, and Alan Tucker
1995: Robert L. Devaney, Lisa Mantini, and David S. Moore
1996: Thomas Banchoff, Edward M. Landesman, and Herbert Wilf
1997: Carl C. Cowen, Carl Pomerance, and T. Christine Stevens
1998: Colin Adams, Rhonda Hatcher, and Rhonda Hughes
1999: Joel Brawley, Robert W. Case, and Joan Hutchinson
2000: Arthur T. Benjamin, Donald S. Passman, and Gary W. Towsley
2001: Edward Burger, Evelyn Silvia, and Leonard F. Klosinki
2002: Dennis DeTurck, Paul Sally, and Edward Spitznagel Jr.
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