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.