won a 2011 Emmy Award) 2010 Game Changer, Named by The Huffington Post; "HuffPost's Game Changers salutes 100 innovators, visionaries, mavericks, and leaders who are reshaping their fields and changing the world." 2010 Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching from Baylor University 2007 Award of Excellence, for "educational mathematics videos that break new ground", Technology & Learning magazine 2007 Distinguished Achievement Award, for Educational Video Technology, The Association of Educational Publishers 2006 "100 Best of America", Listed in Reader's Digest Annual Special Issue as Best Math Teacher 2006 Lester R. Ford Award for the expository article A Tail of Two Palindromes 2003 Residence Life Academic Teaching Award, University of Colorado at Boulder 2001 Robert W. Hamilton Book Award, for "The Heart of Mathematics" 1988 Mathematics Teaching Award, The University of Texas at Austin Burger is the Francis Christopher Oakley Third Century Professor of Mathematics and was the Lissack Professor for Social Responsibility and Personal Ethics (2010–2012) and the Gaudino Scholar (2008–2010) at Williams College, where he was also awarded the 2007 Nelson Bushnell Prize for Scholarship and Teaching. Burger has been honored by The Mathematical Association of America on several occasions: 2001, Deborah and Franklin Haimo Awards for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics; 2001–2003, George Pólya lecturer; 2004, Chauvenet Prize; and 2006, Lester R. Ford Award See also List of University of Waterloo people References External links 1964 births Living people 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Connecticut College alumni University of Texas at Austin College of Natural Sciences alumni Williams College faculty Fellows of the American Mathematical Society People from Georgetown, Texas