Badzioch wins SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
Bernard Badzioch has won the 2024 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. The award will be presented October 24, 2024 at UB's Celebration of Academic Excellence. Badzioch is recognized for consistently demonstrating superior teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level. As an innovative educator, students remark that Badzioch has the “rare skill, particularly amongst mathematicians,” to understand even their most incomprehensible questions and answer in a way that makes them feel good for having asked it. Read UBNow.
The Celebration of Academic Excellence program reads: "Bernard Badzioch is an innovative educator whose cutting-edge instructional methods, pioneering curricular development and generous mentorship have become hallmarks of his career. His course infrastructure is widely recognized by both students and faculty for its unmatched quality, creativity and detailed preparation. It includes—among other resources—websites, projects, self-made YouTube videos and a comprehensive suite of online homework exercises. In addition to sharing his classroom resources with students and faculty, he is equally generous with his time, creating an environment—both in the classroom and in his office—where students feel comfortable asking questions and discussing course concepts."
SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
SUNY Press Release (Excerpt)
Bernard Badzioch is an innovative educator whose class materials alone are lauded and sought after by both students and faculty alike.
Since joining the Department of Mathematics in 2004, Badzioch has taught 17 courses, from freshman-level to advanced graduate courses, and earned consistently high evaluation scores. He has also been an adviser for six PhD students and one master’s student.
His course materials, which include lecture notes, websites, self-made YouTube videos and online homework exercises, are “prized among students for their lucidity.” Even Badzioch’s colleagues routinely use them due to their “clarity, completeness, rigor … and elegance.”
In addition to sharing classroom resources, Badzioch is credited with creating an environment where students feel comfortable voicing questions and discussing concepts. Students say he has the “rare skill, particularly amongst mathematicians,” to understand even their most incomprehensible questions and answer in a way that makes them feel good for having asked it.
Badzioch served as the department’s director of undergraduate studies for five years and currently serves as its associate chair.
Faculty Profile
Bernard Badzioch
PhD
Research Interests
Homotopy Theory
Education
PhD, University of Notre Dame
Research
Homotopy Theory
Selected Publications
- K1 of twisted rings of polynomials. Download pdf. K-Theory 16:29-34, 1999.
- Recognition principle for generalized Eilenberg-Mac Lane Spaces. Progress in Mathematics 196:21–26, Birkhauser 2001.
- Algebraic theories in homotopy theory. Annals of Mathematics 155(3):895-913, 2002.
- From Γ-spaces to algebraic theories. Transactions of the AMS 357(5):1779-1799, 2005.
- (w. M. Feshbach) A note on localizations of perfect groups. Proceedings of the AMS 133(5):693-697, 2005.
- (w. K. Chung and A. Voronov) The canonical delooping machine. Download pdf. Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra 208(2):531-540, 2007.
- (w. W. Dorabiala) Additivity for the parametrized topological Euler characteristic and Reidemeister torsion. K-Theory 38(1):1–22, 2007.
- (with W. Dorabiala and B. Williams) Smooth parametrized torsion, a manifold approach. Advances in Mathematics 221(2):660-680, 2009.
- (with W. Dorabiala) A note on localizations of mapping spaces. Israel Journal of Mathematics 177, 2010.
- (with W. Dorabiala, J. Klein, and B. Williams) Equivalence of higher torsion invariants. Advances in Mathematics 226(3):2192-2232, 2011.