Two Madison campus faculty win systemwide teaching awards

A professor of marketing and a mathematician will represent the UW- Madison campus as 1998 winners of the Alliant Underkofler Teaching Awards. The awards will be presented at a ceremony Friday in Van Hise Hall.

Jan B. Heide, associate professor of marketing, is a veteran of the Teaching Academy and has served on its teacher preparation task force. His research area, management organization and inter-organization relationships, has attracted multidisciplinary interest from the fields of law, economics and sociology and more.

Donald Passman, Richard Brauer Professor of Mathematics, teaches courses ranging from “bread-and-butter” calculus to advanced graduate seminars. Passman pioneered the department’s instructional use of computers and is recognized as the world’s foremost authority on group rings, a fundamental mathematical tool.