W.E. Briggs Teaching Excellence Award

The W.E. Briggs Teaching Excellence Award is given annually to a first-year graduate teaching assistant or graduate part-time instructor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Colorado at Boulder in recognition of outstanding accomplishments in teaching.

William E. Briggs was a faculty member of the Department of Mathematics from 1955 until 1988, and served as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences from 1963 until 1980.  The W. E. Briggs Teaching Excellence Award is supported by the B. W. Jones and W. E. Briggs Teaching Excellence Award fund.

Previous Winners

  • 2015 Katharine Adamyk and Cherry Ng
  • 2014 Noah Williams
  • 2013 Natalie Coston and Jeffrey Shriner
  • 2012 Matthew Hartman
  • 2010 Daniel Proulx
  • 2009 Matthew Jones