NORTHEASTERN
SECTION of the MATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
National MAA Certificate of Meritorious Service
Every five years each section of the MAA may make a nomination for the National MAA Certificate of Meritorious Service in recognition of outstanding service at the sectional or national level.
Recipients of this award from the Northeastern Section:
1987 Donald Small, Colby College
1992 James J. Tattersall, Providence College
1997 Frank P. Battles and Laura L. Kelleher, Massachusetts Maritime Academy
2002 Dennis Luciano, Western New England College
NES/MAA Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics
As established by the MAA Board of Governors, this award is to be made to a teacher of mathematics at the post-secondary level who has been widely recognized as extraordinarily successful. His/her teaching effectiveness must be documented and must have had influence beyond their own classroom. Recipients must be members of the MAA teaching in the Northeastern Section. Recipients of this award are eligible to receive a National MAA award. Usually the recipient is announced at the Spring Meeting and is invited to speak at the Fall Meeting.
Previous recipients of the Northeastern Section Distinguished Teaching Award
1992 Frank Morgan*, Williams College
1993 Thomas Moore, Bridgewater State College
1994 Robert Devaney*, Boston University
1995 Thomas Banchoff*, Brown University
1996 Colin Adams*, Williams College
1997 James J. Tattersall, Providence College
1998 Robert Case*, Northeastern University
1999 Charles Vinsonhaler, University of Connecticut
2000 Edward Burger*, Williams College
2001 Paul Blanchard, Boston University
2002 Laura Kelleher, Massachusetts Maritime Academy
2003 Emma Previato, Boston University
2004 P. Joseph McKenna, University of Connecticut
2005 David Abrahamson, Rhode Island College
2006 Gilbert Strang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology* indicates that the recipient was also a winner at the national level.
This award, which was first given in 1990, is given at the annual
Fall Meeting of the Northeastern Section in calendar years which are divisible
by five.
Guidelines are as follows:
(i) The recipient should reflect those characteristics of Howard Eves that placed him at a level of high esteem by the entire mathematical community. In particular, he was a spellbinding and entertaining lecturer, an enthusiastic and caring teacher and administrator, an outstanding mathematician geometer, and a respected historian of mathematics. He was a person with a great sense of humor who went out of his way to pass on his skills and knowledge to his students and colleagues. The recipient should exhibit several if not all of these Evesean characteristics.The selection committee is appointed by the Section Chairperson subject to approval by the Executive Committee.(ii) Howard Eves was instrumental in founding, organizing, promoting, and providing the necessary leadership for the Northeastern Section in its early existence. The recipient should be recognized by his or her outstanding contributions to the Section. The majority of these contributions should have been accomplished at least ten years prior to the awards ceremony.
(iii) Past recipients of this award and past recipients of the MAA Certificate for Meritorious Service are ineligible as are members of the Selection Committee.
Previous recipients of the Howard Eves Award:
1990: Howard Eves, University of Maine
1995: Clayton Dodge, University of Maine
2000: James E. Ward, Bowdoin College
2005: Karen J. Schroeder, Bentley College
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Revised: April 17, 2006
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