Joel Vincent Brawley, Jr. is the

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Distinguished Professor of

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Sciences at

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. Brawley is reputed nationally for being a prolific mathematics

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and is regarded highly for his teaching abilities. Brawley is also a prominent

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er in the field of

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, specifically

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s. Joel Vincent Brawley, Jr. was born in Mooresville in 1938. He went to th
Mooresville High School
and received his

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in Engineering Mathematics/Mechanics, master's and

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s in Mathematics and

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, all from the

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(NCSU) in

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. Dr. Brawley came to Clemson University as an assistant professor in 1965 after a brief stint on the Faculty of NCSU. He became

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in 1968, professor in 1972 and the Alumni Distinguished Professor in 1982. Dr. Brawley has also been a research consultant with the

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(NSA) for the past three decades. Dr. Joel Brawley received the highest awards in the nation for mathematics education including the Deborah and Franklin Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics from the

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in 1999,

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Governor's Professor of the Year and the Class of 39 Award for Excellence from the Clemson University.

References

External links

Official webpage
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Brawley, Joel 1938 births Living people Clemson University faculty Mathematicians from South Carolina North Carolina State University alumni 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians