Faculty Awards

 

2007

• James Pennington received the Distinguished Achievement College-Level Award in Teaching from The Association of Former Students.

• Michael Rosynek received the Distinguished Achievement College-Level Award in Teaching from The Association of Former Students.

• Gyula Vigh received the Distinguished Achievement College-Level Award in Teaching from The Association of Former Students.

• John Hogg received the2007 Presidential Professor for Teaching Excellence Award.

2006

• David E. Bergbreiter, 2006, Presidential Professor for Teaching Excellence (a lifetime appointment).
  
  
• Paul Cremer received the 2006 Sigma Xi, Southwest Regional Young Investigator Award.

• Paul Cremer received the 2006 Robert A. Welch Foundation Norman Hackerman Award in Chemical Research . The Welch Foundation, one of the nation's oldest and largest sources of private funding for basic research in chemistry, presents the $100,000 award annually to honor up-and-coming scientists at Texas institutions who are 40 years old or younger. Recipients are recognized for expanding the frontiers of chemistry through their innovative research endeavors.

• Ray Schaak has been selected to receive a DuPont Young Professor Grant. This innovative grant program is designed to provide start-up assistance to promising young and untenured research faculty working in areas of interest to DuPont's long-term business.
  
  
• Yi Qin Gao has been selected to receive a Searle Scholar Award. The Searle Scholars Program was established at The Chicago Community Trust in 1980. Grants funded from Mr.and Mrs. Searle's estate are made to selected academic institutions to support the independent research of outstanding individuals who are in the first or second year of their first appointment at the assistant professor level, and whose current appointment is a tenure-track position.
  
  
• Ray Schaak has been selected to receive a Beckman Young Investigator Award. The Beckman Young Investigators (BYI) Program is intended to provide research support to the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of academic careers in the chemical and life sciences.

 

2005

• David Bergbreiter has been selected by the A&M Honors Students to receive the Wells Fargo Honors Faculty Mentor Award.
  
  
• Jaan Laane received the 2005 Ellis R. Lippincott Award. The award is given annually by the Optical Society of America, the Coblentz Society, and the Society for Applied Spectroscopy to "an individual who has made significant contributions to vibrational spectroscopy as judged by his or her influence on other scientists."
  
  
• Al Cotton received the 2005 Monie A. Ferst Award.
  
  
• Larry Peck has recently been selected to receive two awards. The first is the Skoog Cup Award sponsored by the Howard Hughes Foundation in recognition of outstanding contributions to science education. The second award is the Southwest Regional ACS Award.
  
  
• Al Cotton has been selected to receive the George C. Pimentel Award in Chemical Education sponsored by Dow Chemical. This award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to chemical education.
  
  
• Paul Cremer has been selected to receive the 2006 Pittsburgh Conference Achievement Award. This award "recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the fields of analytical chemistry or applied spectroscopy in the 10 years following their Ph.D."
  
  
• Eric Simanek has been selected to receive a Distinguished Achievement College-Level Award in Teaching from The Association of Former Students. The award will be presented at the annual College of Science Faculty and Staff meeting to be scheduled in early fall 2005.
  
  
• David Bergbreiter has been selected by Dr. Gates as one of two runner-ups for the Presidential Professorship of Teaching Excellence. 
  
  
• John L. Hogg received The Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award for teaching, Spring 2005.
  
  
• Michael B. Hall received The Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award for research, Spring 2005.
  
  
• John Bevan has been appointed as a Davidson Professor of Science.
  
  
• Paul Cremer has been appointed as a Davidson Professor of Science.
  
  
• Daniel Singleton has been appointed as a Davidson Professor of Science.

 

2004

• Kim Dunbar received the Distinguished Alumna Award from Purdue University, October 21, 2004.
  
  
• Kim Dunbar has been appointed as a Davidson Professor of Science.
  
  
• Michael Hall has been appointed as a Davidson Professor of Science.
  
  
• Frank Raushel has been appointed as a Davidson Professor of Science.
  
  
• Kevin Burgess has been appointed as the Rachal Professor of Chemistry.
  
  
• Wayne Goodman has been selected to receive the Gabor A. Somorjai Award for Creative Research in Catalysis sponsored by the Gabor A. and Judith K. Somorjai Endowment Fund administered by the American Chemical Society.  The Awards Ceremony will take place on Tuesday, March 15, 2005, in conjunction with the 229th ACS National Meeting in San Diego, California.
  
  
• David H. Russell received The Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award for Research, Spring 2004.
  
  
• Simon North received The Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement College-Level Award in Teaching, Fall 2004.
  
  
• Dr. John L. Hogg received the Mervin and Annette Peters Advising Award presented to the outstanding faculty advisor by the Texas A&M University Advisors and Counselors Organization at Texas A&M University, May 6, 2004.
  
  
• Dr. John L. Hogg received the Teaching Award of Merit from Gamma Sigma Delta, the Texas A&M Chapter of The Honor Society of Agriculture, for outstanding contributions to teaching by someone outside the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, April 8, 2004.

 

2003

• Paul Cremer received a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award.
  
  
• "Celebration of Innovation in the Research Valley" hosted by the Technology Licensing Office, honored Gyula Vigh with the Spirit of Innovation Corporate Partnership Award. 
  
  
• David Bergbreiter has been selected as a holder of a University Professorship in Undergraduate Teaching Excellence.
  
  
• Eric Simanek was selected as the College of Science 2003-2004 Montague-Center for Teaching Excellence Scholar.
  
  
• Vickie Williamson has been selected by the College of Science to receive the 2003 Distinguished Achievement College-Level Award in Teaching from The Association of Former Students of Texas A&M University.