Past Piper Nominees

The Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation is a prestigious statewide award honoring 10 professors each academic year for their dedication to the teaching profession and for their outstanding academic, scientific, and scholarly achievement. Honorees are awarded certificates naming them “Piper Professors,” together with cash honoraria of $5,000 for each professor selected.

The purpose of these awards is to recognize excellence in teaching rather than research, publication, administration, or other related activities, although these criteria are also considered by the selection committee. This award is one of the most prestigious honors bestowed upon faculty in the state of Texas. Only 10 professors receive this award each year among a pool of approximately 10,000 educators. The Piper Professor Nominee Award nomination deadline is Nov. 15, 2019.

Note: Department chairs submit nominations for the Piper Professor Award.

 

2025

Felix Villarreal, Faculty, Biology

2024

Dr. Sadaf Sajjad, Provost Allyship Fellow, Psychology

2023

Cam Addis, Professor, History

2022

Dr. Richard Espinosa, Department Chair and Professor, Allied Health Sciences, Pre-Health Sciences, and Pre-Med

2021

Curtis Eckerman, Professor, Biology

2020

John Nation, Nursing

2019

Amardeep Kahlon, Computer Information Tech

2018

Shirin Khosropour, Professor, Psychology

2017

Stacey Thompson Stover, Professor, English, Developmental Writing

2016

David M. Lauderback, Professor, History

2015

Missi Patterson, Professor, Psychology

2014

Gale Spear, Professor, Child Care and Development

2013

Jennifer Beck, Professor, Psychology

2012

Tobin Quereau, Professor, Human Development

2010

Elizabeth Pintar, Professor, Anthropology

2009

Clint Davis, Professor, Anthropology

2008

Amardeep Kahlon, Professor, Computer Information Systems