The Section Selection Committee will determine the recipient of the award from those nominated. The awardee will be honored at the Spring meeting of the Section and will be widely recognized and acknowledged within the Section.

We encourage you to submit a nomination for the MAA Nebraska-SESD Section Award if you have someone eligible and qualified in your department. Even if not selected this year, it is an honor for someone to have been nominated, and your candidate can likely be nominated again in a future year. Your department will receive recognition for its commitment to excellence in teaching, and the work done in preparing a nomination folder for your candidate is a tribute in itself. Self-nomination is not permitted.

Nebraska-SESD MAA Section Award
for distinguished college or university teaching of mathematics

Recent Section Award Winners

Laura McCauley

Peru State College

2025 Section Award Winner

University of Nebraska-Lincon

Yvonne Lai

2024 Section Award Winner

Nomination Form

Nominations due by February 20th

Eligibility

  • College or university teachers who currently teach a mathematical science at least halftime during the academic year in a public or private college or university (from two-year college teaching through teaching at the Ph.D. level) in the United States or Canada. Those on approved leave(sabbatical or other) during the academic year in which they are nominated qualify if they fulfilled the requirements in the previous year.

  • More than seven years of experience in teaching a mathematical science.

  • Membership in the Mathematical Association of America.

Guidelines for Nomination

Nominees Should

  • Be widely recognized as extraordinarily successful in their teaching. Teaching is to be interpreted in its broadest sense, not necessarily limited to classroom teaching. It may include activities such as preparing students for mathematical competitions at the college level such as the Putnam Prize Competition or the Mathematical Contest in Modeling, attracting students to become majors in a mathematical science or to become Ph.D. candidates, working with pre-service or inservice teachers, etc.

  • Have teaching effectiveness that can be documented.

  • Foster curiosity and generate excitement about mathematics in their students.

At the national level, MAA recognizes outstanding teaching with the Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics; each year at most three awards are given. At least one of the Award recipients must be a current Section nominee. This Section nominee may be the current recipient of the Section Award for Distinguished Teaching or a previous recipient of such an award from any Section. At most one of the Haimo Award recipients may be other than a current or past recipient of a Section Award for Distinguished Teaching. As you see, your nomination for a Section Award for Distinguished Teaching provides the opportunity for the person to be nominated for the national award.