The page lists selected national and state awards within (e.g., ASA Waller, SW-MAA) and beyond (e.g., UT-ROTA, Piper) the discipline and some 40 awards in national education contests (e.g., Grand Prize in NSF’s 2019 We Are Mathematics Video Competition and a top prize at eCOTS 2022).
OVERALL RECOGNITION, ESPECIALLY FOR EDUCATION-RELATED CONTRIBUTIONS
recent national keynotes for 2023 United States Conference on Teaching Statistics and 2022 National Numeracy Network.
2022 Winner in the Activity Contest, 6th Electronic Conference on Teaching Statistics, Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education
2021 winner (and 8th recipient) of the Waller Distinguished Teaching Career Award, given by the American Statistical Association (UTEP newsfeed story) at the 2021 Joint Statistical Meetings Presidential Address and Awards Ceremony, with tribute in October 2021 Amstat News print issue and blogpost
2020 11-page interview for Journal of Statistics Education series on prominent statistics educators (yielding media coverage)
Awarded (in April 2019) lifelong status of UTEP Distinguished Teaching Professor.
2016 winner of a Minnie Stevens Piper Professor Award, which is effectively a lifetime achievement/dedication award given to only 10 faculty each year in Texas from any of its 150+ 2-year or 4-year public or private colleges in any discipline; I am the 14th winner (and only one since 2012) in UTEP history of this award
Featured competitively-selected lecture on UTEP’s Centennial Open House weekend, 4/11/14
2013 Bronze Medal winner in “Best Statistics Education Web (STEW)/Census at School Lesson” national peer-reviewed contest sponsored by the American Statistical Association
Appointed service directing (for 3 years: 2014-2016) UTEP’s campus-wide teaching center (Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning), following service for CETaL as the 2013-14 Provost’s Faculty Fellow-in-Residence, as well as a member (2008-2011) of the CETaL Council of Fellows
a 2011 Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award from the University of Texas System (based on multiple levels of review of 150-page dossier of evidence, I competed against all tenured faculty of all disciplines in the 9-university UT-System, just 4 years after I received tenure)
2001 recipient of the Arthur M. Gignilliat, Jr. Professorship award, top annual internal award of Armstrong Atlantic State University (now Georgia State University Armstrong campus)
RESEARCH/SCHOLARSHIP/GRANTS
Peer-nominated to become a 2023 ASA Fellow, open to 1/3 of 1% of the year’s membership
Grand Prize winner (mid/advanced career category) of NSF’s 2019 We Are Mathematics Video Competition (open to anyone in the mathematical sciences who has or has had NSF funding) for video about my 2015-2020 NSF grant
several articles recognized, including: (1) first article in 45-year history of Teaching Statistics selected to be featured with a discussant response (and author reply), (2) article (with introductory video) selected for July 5, 2022 MTLT Journal Club meeting and appeared in Dec. 2022 Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK–12, 115(12), 915-920. https://doi.org/10.5951/MTLT.2022.0218, augmented by Tabatha Ridenour’s introduction, (3) article selected for discussion on 3/7/17 webinar as part of international 8-organization series “Call for Collective Action to Develop Awareness: Equity and Social Justice in Mathematics Education” and in 2020 for a national curated webpage on social justice scholarship, (4) article featured on 12/21/17 episode #1716 (Digest 1) of MathEdPodcast, (5) article is most-read research article (and 2nd-most overall) in journal’s history
Presented certificates for “Outstanding Efforts in Securing Extramural Funding” at UTEP ORSP (New Grant Award Recognition) Research Forum, Feb. 2016 & Sept. 2014.
Interviewed by Keith Pannell for the 5/29/14 “100@100: Research for Our Next Century” episode on NPR-station KTEP-FM
Winner of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning faculty award (“best paper”) at the 2012 International Sun Conference on Teaching and Learning
CREATIVITY/OUTREACH CONTESTS
National Museum of Mathematics: 1st-place in “Pi Day of the Century” song contest announced 3/14/15; also, 3 songs were winners in fall 2015 Open Set math song contest (yielding invited performance), 2 in the spring 2017 contest, 1 in the spring 2018 contest, and 1 in the spring 2021 contest (i.e., at least one winner in every song contest offered to date by the Museum!); also, 2 winners in its 2021 math limerick contest for National Limerick Day
Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education: Winner of at least one top-4 award in each biennial national A-mu-sing educational contest entered, and 20+ captions have been recognized in its monthly blind educational cartoon caption contests
American Statistical Association: Best Online Submission prize in the 2014 ASA’s Got Talent; 1st-place in non-student category of haiku and meme contests
Mathematical Association of America QL SIGMAA: 1st-place award in each of two categories in its 2011-12 Quantitative Literacy in the Media contest
Sigma Xi (international honor society of science and engineering): 2nd-place in the Performing Arts category and in the Film category of the STEM Art and Film Festival competition at the 2022 International Forum on Research Excellence (IFoRE)
National Science Foundation: grand prize (mid/advanced career category) in the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) 2019 We Are Mathematics Video Competition
SERVICE
Reimagining the Core Fellow, 2022-2023
My service to UTEP’s campus teaching community, especially directing UTEP’s Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETaL) for 3 years (2014-2016), was publicly recognized at the 2022 “Enacting Inclusive Excellence through leadership, teaching and learning” conference of UTEP’s Center for Faculty Leadership and Development; this followed service in 2013 to CETaL as the Provost’s Faculty Fellow-in-Residence and having earlier served a 3-year appointed term as a CETaL Fellow (for which I was presented a plaque in 2011 as “Outstanding CETaL Fellow”)
Nationally-elected term Jan. 1, 2011-Dec. 31, 2013 as Publications Chair and Executive Committee member for the Statistical Education Section of the American Statistical Association
Served 2011 on the NCTM’s Professional Development Services Committee, by appointment of the president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Editorial service includes: past terms as the Assistant Editor of Statistics Education Research Journal (3 years), an Associate Editor of Journal of Statistics Education (two 3-year terms), an Associate Editor for Journal of Mathematics and Culture (8 years), and Editorial Board member of Texas Mathematics Teacher (12 years); also, ongoing service as a founding Editor of Teaching for Excellence and Equity in Mathematics (since 2009, with service since 2014 as the Associate Editor), and Editorial Board member of the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education (since 2006)
Designated in 2009 (by Frontera Women’s Foundation) as a TITLE IX Champion
Presented with plaque at my plenary keynote for the 2009-10 annual conference (March 2010) of Greater El Paso Council of Teachers of Mathematics by GEPCTM President Glen Torguson “In recognition of your support and promotion of high-quality mathematics teaching and ongoing professional development throughout the preparation and careers of teachers of mathematics.” (note: I also received such a plaque from GEPCTM President Nancy Arroyo when I gave the plenary keynote for GEPCTM’s annual conference in 2006)
Awarded certificate in 2007 from Miriam Leiva, (founding) president of the national NCTM affiliate organization TODOS: Mathematics for All, for “exemplary contributions as a leader in TODOS 2006-07.”
Publicly recognized by Georgia Council of Teachers of Mathematics as a Finalist for 2001 Gladys M. Thomason Distinguished Service Award for “distinguished service in the field of mathematics education at the local, regional and state levels. Criteria shall include: significant services rendered, service beyond the normal job requirements and services primarily for the improvement of mathematics instruction.”