Journey Magazine 2015 | Page 10

FACULTY PROFESSORSHIPS INSPIRE, PROMOTE FACULTY DEVELOPMENT Tin-Yau Tam is chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and in 2012 was named the Lloyd and Sandra Nix Endowed Professor. He joined the Auburn University faculty in 1988 and, since that time, has accumulated numerous honors and awards including being named SEC Academic Leadership Development Program Fellow and Outstanding Graduate Mentor. Tam teaches graduate and undergraduate courses where his research interests are in algebraic structures and classification, problem solving involving analytical and algebraic techniques, and representati