Award honors chair for boosting excitement about math

Eric Stade, professor and chair of the department of mathematics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been given the 2010 Burton Jones Distinguished Teaching award from the Mathematical Association of America's Rocky Mountain Section. The MAA board of governors established Section Awards for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics to recognize outstanding teachers who foster student excitement about mathematics. The honor includes a certificate and honorarium, and automatic nomination for the Deborah and Franklin Haimo Awards for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics.