Jeremy Kilpatrick, a Regents’ Professor who recently retired from the UGA College of Education’s mathematics and science education department, received the 2017 Award for Excellence in Mathematics Education during the annual Mathematics Matters in Education workshop in early April.
The award recognizes his more than 50 years of contributions to mathematics education research, notes the award committee, and many of his papers, book chapters and books are now standard references in the field’s literature.
After receiving his doctorate in mathematics education in 1967 from Stanford University, Kilpatrick taught at Columbia University’s Teachers College before joining the University of Georgia faculty in 1975. Along with several Fulbright awards, an honorary doctorate from Gothenburg University in Sweden and other lifetime achievement awards, Kilpatrick was selected as an inaugural Fellow of the American Educational Research Association in 2009 and elected to the U.S. National Academy of Education in 2010.
