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56 MILLENNIUM T o be an educator, one must possess the drive and determination to ensure that students are well-prepared for the world ahead. Dr. J. Michael Boardman is a phenomenal educator and mathematician who utilized his knowledge to instill a love of the field in his students. Born in Manchester, England, Dr. Boardman served with the Royal Air Force from 1956 to 1958 before receiving a Bachelor of Arts and a PhD from Cambridge University in 1961 and 1965, respectively. From 1964 to 1968, Dr. Boardman was an assistant lecturer at the brand- new University of Warwick, having gone on sabbatical leave from the University of Chicago from 1966 to 1967. In 1967 he spent a semester at Haverford College and in the same year moved to Johns Hopkins University, where became an associate professor. He was promoted to professor in 1972, remaining in that role until 2010, when he retired and subsequently earned the title of professor emeritus. Dr. Boardman is also an author. His works include “Singularities of Differentiable Maps,” “Homotopy Invariant Algebraic Structures on Topological Spaces” with R.M. Vogt, “Modular Representations on the Homology of Powers of Real Projective Spaces,” “Unstable Operations in Generalized Cohomology” with D.C. Johnson and W.S. Wilson, and “Conditionally Convergent Spectral Sequences.” He remains active in his field through his affiliations and memberships, including being a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He was a Science Research Council Fellow from 1964 to 1966 and a National Science Foundation grantee from 1970 to 1988. J. Michael Boardman, PhD Mathematician, Professor Emeritus Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD