David E. Bergbreiter has been selected to receive the 2006 Presidential Professor for Teaching Excellence Award.
The prestigious and coveted award was created by Texas A&M University President Robert M. Gates in 2003 to underscore the importance of outstanding teaching at a major research university.
Gates said the most important criteria for the awards are "commitment to and excellence in teaching in all its dimensions".
"A great university has great teachers. Texas A&M has some of the finest teachers in the world, and we want to recognize them," he added.
Bergbreiter, who holds the Eppright Professorship in Undergraduate Teaching Excellence, previously has earned The Association of Former Students' Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching at both the University and College levels. One teaching excellence award nominator said Bergbreiter readily admits that undergraduate teaching is his favorite activity, as evidenced by the 19 different undergraduate chemistry lecture and laboratory courses he has taught during his more than three decades at Texas A&M.
He joined the Texas A&M faculty in 1974 after receiving his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.S. degree at Michigan State University.
A Formal presentation will be made at commencement exercises Friday, May 12.