Arvind Mahajan, Finance Professor at the Texas A&M University – Mays Business School has been selected as a recipient of the Piper Professor Award for excellence in teaching.
The award has been honoring excellent educators in the state of Texas since 1958, and Mahajan is the second Mays faculty member to receive the honor in over twenty years. The last recipient, the late Professor Jeffrey Conant, took the award in 1994.
Just a year ago, Mahajan was honored as a Presidential Professor Teaching Excellence for Texas A&M, and this year honored with the Piper Award after selection by the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation. Each university in Texas is eligible to submit a nomination for the foundation to consider.
“I was quite excited to be nominated by the university and humbled to be selected at the state level,” Mahajan commented on the awards. “There is nothing in higher education that is bigger than this.
Mahajan has served a number of roles throughout the years, teaching finance and corporate finance at the undergraduate, MBA and Executive MBA levels. He was also responsible for developing and teaching in one of the first doctoral-level seminars available in the United States on international finance. Currently, Mahajan acts as the associate dean for graduate programs at Mays.
“Dr. Mahajan is one of our most tireless colleagues—always willing to do what is needed to take our students to the next level and to advance the business school’s progress,” said Mays Dean Eli Jones. “This level of recognition is rare, and long-lasting, as he will retain this and the Presidential Professor titles for the remainder of his career.”