SECtion AWARDS

Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching

As established by the MAA Board of Governors, the Northeastern Section Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching is 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 and be teaching in the Northeastern Section. Recipients of this award are automatically nominated for the Haimo Award, the national MAA award for distinguished teaching.

The recipient is normally announced at the Spring Meeting and is invited to speak at the Fall Meeting.

The usual deadline for nominations is January 31st for that year's award.  Please submit nominations by selecting button below.

Please send any questions to Shannon Lockard, the NES/MAA Chair by email at slockard@bridgew.edu.

Previous Award Winners

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 B. 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
2007 Kenneth Gross* University of Vermont
2008 David Carhart Bentley College
2009
 Solomon Friedberg
 Boston College
2010
 Susan Loepp*
 Williams College
2011
 Joseph Silverman
 Brown University
2012
 Margaret Robinson*
 Mount Holyoke College
2014
 Satyan Devadoss
 Williams College
2015
 Donna Beers
 Simmons College
2016
 George Ashline
 St. Michael's College
2017
 Reva Kasman
 Salem State University
2018
 Mihai Stoiciu
 Williams College
2019
 jenn berg
 Fitchburg State University
2020
 Pamela Harris*
 Williams College
2021
 Adriana Salerno*
 Bates College
2022
 Candice Price*
 Smith College
2023
 James Quinlan
 University of Southern Maine
2024
 Karl-Dieter Crisman
 Gordon College
* indicates the recipient also won the Haimo Award.

Howard Eves Award

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. 

The guidelines for selecting the recipient are: 

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Past recipients of this award and past recipients of the MAA Certificate for Meritorious Service are ineligible, as are members of the Selection Committee.

The selection committee is appointed by the Section Chair subject to approval by the Executive Committee.

Previous Award Winners

1990 Howard Eves
 University of Maine
1995 Clayton Dodge
 University of Maine
2000 James E. Ward Bowdoin College
2005 Karen J. Schroeder
 Bentley College
2010
 Richard Cleary
 Bentley University
2015
 C. Edward Sandifer
 Western Connecticut State University
2020
 Ockle Johnson
 Keene State College

National MAA Certificate for Meritorious Service

Every five years each section of the MAA may make a nomination for the National MAA Certificate for Meritorious Service Award in recognition of outstanding service at the sectional or national level. More details for the award can be found at the MAA's website.

Previous Award Winners

1987 Donald Small Colby College
1992 James J. Tattersall
 Providence College
1997 Frank P. Battles
Laura L. Kelleher		 Massachusetts Maritime Academy
2002 Dennis Luciano Western New England College
2007
 Donna Beers
 Simmons College
2012
 Frank Ford
 Providence College
2017
 Jason Molitierno
 Sacred Heart University
2022
 Rob Poodiack
 Norwich University