W.E. Briggs Teaching Excellence Award

The W.E. Briggs Teaching Excellence Award is given annually to first-year graduate teaching assistants or graduate part-time instructors 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

  • 2025-2026 Nate Ward-Chene and Xintan Xia
  • 2024-2025 Edouard Heitzmann and Basia Klos
  • 2023-2024 Summer Haag, Jon Kim, Paige Robertson, Jasmin Rodriguez
  • 2022-2023 Jackson Carpenter, Nicholas Christoffersen, Courtney Hauf
  • 2021-2022 Jennifer Gensler, Joseph Macula, Emily Montelius
  • 2020-2021 Levi Lorenzo and Breeann Wilson
  • 2019-2020 Helena Davenport, Mateo Muro, Peter Rock
  • 2018-2019 Jonathan Quartin and Patrick Wynne
  • 2017-2018 Jordan DuBeau
  • 2016-2017 Brendt Gerics
  • 2015-2016 Katharine Adamyk and Cherry Ng
  • 2014-2015 Noah Williams
  • 2013-2014 Natalie Coston and Jeffrey Shriner
  • 2012-2013 Kathleen Smith
  • 2011-2012 Matthew Hartman
  • 2010-2011 Daniel Proulx
  • 2009-2010 Matthew Jones