texas a&m university and the association of former students have selected 24 outstanding members of the schools faculty and staff to be honored with 2017-2018 distinguished achievement awards the university-level distinguished achievement awards were first presented in 1955 and have since been awarded to more than 1 000 professionals who have exhibited the highest standards of excellence at texas a&m 2019 distinguished achievement award recipients announced: texas a&m university and the association of former students have selected 24 outstanding members of the schools faculty and staff to be honored with 2019 distinguished achievement awards the university-level distinguished achievement awards were first presented in 1955 and have since been awarded to more than 1 000 professionals who have exhibited the highest standards of excellence at texas a&m the 2019 distinguished achievement awards were formally presented at 1:30 pm on monday april 29 during ceremonies in rudder theatre on the texas a&m university campus in recognition of their achievements each recipient received a cash gift an engraved watch and a commemorative plaque the 2019 recipients along with their departments/affiliations were as follows for teaching erick moreno-centeno department of industrial & systems engineering college of engineering wei-jung chen department of neuroscience & experimental therapeutics college of medicine cheryl herman department of veterinary integrative biosciences college of veterinary medicine & biomedical sciences claire katz department of philosophy college of liberal arts wei li department of landscape architecture & urban planning college of architecture duncan s mackenzie department of biology college of science john f murphy school of law scott schaefer department of computer science & engineering college of engineering nancy street department of communication college of liberal arts radhika viruru department of teaching learning & culture education and human development for research nicolaas e deutz department of health & kinesiology college of education and human development francois gabbai department of chemistry college of science yassin a hassan department of nuclear engineering college of engineering katrin hinrichs department of veterinary physiology & pharmacology college of veterinary medicine & biomedical sciences pr kumar department of electrical & computer engineering college of engineering m suhail zubairy department of physics & astronomy college of science photo credit: texas a&m office of the provost for individual student engagement rafael almanzar department of biochemistry & biophysics college of agriculture and life sciences rebecca burns college of nursing for administration sherry j yennello department of chemistry college of science for extension outreach continuing education and professional development tatiana erukhimova department of physics college of science photo credit: texas a&m office of the provost for staff jennifer boyle department of student activities division of student affairs krista may department of english college of liberal arts for graduate mentoring bani k mallick department of statistics college of science guy whitten department of political science college of liberal arts the recipients will be honored at an awards ceremony april 29 at 1:30 pm in rudder theatre during the 2019 distinguished day programming open to all those interested in attending the full schedule for distinguished day will be made in a forthcoming announcement this post the association of former students university level distinguished achievement awards appeared first on dean of faculties share: