Philip Treisman

{{short description|American mathematician}} '''Philip Uri Treisman''' is an American mathematician and mathematics educator. He is the Director of the Charles A. Dana Center,<ref name="University of Texas Dana Center 2024 Treisman">{{cite web | title=Uri Treisman, Ph.D. | website=The University of Texas Dana Center | date=6 May 2024 | url=https://www.utdanacenter.org/who-we-are/meet-our-staff/uri-treisman | access-date=7 May 2024}}</ref> and is a Professor of Mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin.<ref name="UT Experts Treisman">{{cite web | title=UT Experts : University Communications : The University of Texas at Austin | website=UT Experts | url=https://experts.utexas.edu/philip_uri_treisman | access-date=7 May 2024}}</ref> He developed the Emerging Scholars Program (ESP), aimed at helping students from groups that are underrepresented in mathematics, science and engineering excel in calculus and other courses in science. The program was first implemented at the University of California, Berkeley and has now disseminated throughout college campuses across the United States.<ref name=":0">{{cite report |url=https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED562582.pdf |title=Calculus and Community: A History of the Emerging Scholars Program |last=Asera |first=Rose |date=May 2001 |publisher=College Entrance Examination Board |pages=1-50 |access-date=7 May 2024 |format=pdf}}</ref> His efforts to improve American education have been recognized by Newsweek, the Harvard Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation, among other publications and societies.<ref name="Cose 1996 Realities ">{{cite web | last=Cose | first=Ellis | title=The Realities Of Black And White | website=Newsweek | date=28 April 1996 | url=https://www.newsweek.com/realities-black-and-white-176710 | access-date=7 May 2024}}</ref><ref name="Leahy 2006 Treisman ">{{cite web | last=Leahy | first=Cory | title=Dr. Uri Treisman named Scientist of the Year by Harvard Foundation for work in math and science education | website=UT News | date=9 February 2006 | url=https://news.utexas.edu/2006/02/09/dr-uri-treisman-named-scientist-of-the-year-by-harvard-foundation-for-work-in-math-and-science-education/ | access-date=7 May 2024}}</ref><ref name="MacArthur Foundation 1992 Treisman ">{{cite web | title=Philip Uri Treisman | website=MacArthur Foundation | date=22 January 2024 | url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-1992/philip-uri-treisman | access-date=7 May 2024}}</ref> He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hoy |first=Anne Q. |date=2017-11-20 |title=2017 AAAS Fellows Recognized for Advancing Science |url=https://www.aaas.org/news/2017-aaas-fellows-recognized-advancing-science |access-date=2024-11-25 |website=American Association for the Advancement of Science |language=en}}</ref>

He graduated ''summa cum laude'' with a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles, and from the University of California, Berkeley with a Ph.D. in 1985.<ref name="LBJ School of Public Affairs Treisman ">{{cite web | title=Philip Uri Treisman | website=LBJ School of Public Affairs | url=https://lbj.utexas.edu/treisman-philip-uri | access-date=7 May 2024}}</ref>

==Awards==

* 1987 Charles A. Dana Award for Pioneering Achievement in American Higher Education<ref name=":0" /> *1992 MacArthur Fellow *2006 The Harvard Foundation's Scientist of the Year Award<ref>{{Cite journal |date=Spring 2006 |title=Dr. P. Uri Treisman Honored at the Annual Albert Einstein Science Conference |url=https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/harvardfoundation/files/hfnewsletter_2006s.pdf |journal=Harvard Foundation Journal |volume=26 |issue=2 |pages=12, 44}}</ref> *2016 Mathematics Leadership Excellence Award, American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mathematics Leadership Excellence Award Awardee 2016 |url=https://amatyc.org/page/MathExcellenWin2016 |access-date=2024-11-30 |website=American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges}}</ref> *2019 Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Award for Distinguished Service to Mathematics, Mathematical Association of America<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Peeples|first1=Joanne|last2=Álvarez|first2=James|last3=Charney|first3=Ruth|last4=Harris|first4=John|last5=Lewis|first5=Jim|last6=Neudauer|first6=Nancy|author6-link=Nancy Neudauer|year=2019|title=Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Award for 2019 to Philip Uri Treisman for Distinguished Service to Mathematics|journal=The American Mathematical Monthly|volume=126|issue=3|pages=195–198|doi=10.1080/00029890.2019.1551605|s2cid=128145969}}</ref> *2020 James Bryant Conant Award, Education Commission of the States<ref>{{Cite web |title=Education Commission of the States Awards |url=https://www.ecs.org/wp-content/uploads/Awards_One-pager-2.pdf |access-date=2024-11-24 |website=Education Commission of the States}}</ref>

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==External links== *[http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/E603/web04/Amanda/portfolio/university_project/university.html "Dr. Philip Treisman Meets Isaac Newton in Surreal Space"], ''Digital Writing & Research Lab'', Amanda Dulcinea Cuéllar *[https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=45584 "Philip Uri Treisman"], ''Mathematics Genealogy Project'' * {{cite journal | last=Treisman | first=Uri | title=Studying Students Studying Calculus: A Look at the Lives of Minority Mathematics Students in College | journal=The College Mathematics Journal | volume=23 | issue=5 | date=1992 | issn=0746-8342 | doi=10.1080/07468342.1992.11973486 | pages=362–372}}

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