Jeffrey Bergen, professor of mathematics at DePaul University, was honored recently by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LA&S) with the 25th Annual William T. Cortelyou-Martin J. Lowery Award for Excellence.

Bergen, who has taught at DePaul for 26 years, was commended for excellent teaching, notable research and dedicated service. Bergen’s consistently high teaching evaluations are among the best in his department. An innovator, Bergen developed an experimental section of calculus for undergraduates and is writing a textbook on abstract algebra for high school and community college teachers based on an experimental course developed for the graduate mathematics education program at DePaul.

The award ceremony featured a lecture by Bergen delivered with wit and humor to an audience of his colleagues. The topic was “What Do Mathematicians Do.”

A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Bergen received his undergraduate degree in mathematics from Brooklyn College and his master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Chicago. He and his family have resided in unincorporated Des Plaines, Ill. for the past 20 years.

The Cortelyou-Lowery award is named for two late professors, who also were deans of LA&S and who distinguished themselves as excellent educators and initiators of new degree programs for the college.