Awards and Honors
- Pomona College (my alma mater) awarded me an honorary degree in May, 2014
- Invited presenter at the MAA Hour Address at the Joint Mathematics Meeting, Baltimore, 2014
- Provost's Teaching Senior Fellow, 2013 (inaugural year)
- Independent Publisher Book Awards 2013, Silver Medal Winner—Self Help category for The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking
- University of Texas Regents Outstanding Teaching Award, 2009 (inaugural year)
- Mathematical Association of America Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo National Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics, 2007
- Eyes of Texas Excellence Award, 2002
- Robert W. Hamilton Book Author Award Runner-up, 2001
- Friar Society Centennial Teaching Fellowship, 2000
- Academy of Distinguished Teachers, member, 1998-
- Chad Oliver Plan II Teaching Award, 1997
- Jean Holloway Award for Teaching Excellence, 1995
- Recreational Sports Super Racquets Champion, 1989
- Board of Directors Member, Texas Lyceum Association, 1989-95
- President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award, 1989
- Excellence Award, Eyes of Texas, Fall, 1987
- Dad's Association Centennial Teaching Fellowship, Fall, 1987
- Natural Sciences Council Teaching Excellence Award (one of six), April, 1985
- Minnie Stevens Piper Professor (awarded to ten professors each year in the state of Texas), 1984
- Honorable mention, Jean Holloway Award for Teaching Excellence, 1979
- Visiting Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1978-79
- Faculty Fellow, The University of Texas, Austin, 1975-77, 82-86
- Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Fellowship, 1972-74