Professor Robert L. Devaney taught at Northwestern University, Tufts University, and the University of Maryland before coming to Boston University in 1980. He has written textbooks on dynamical systems aimed at all levels of students, from high school to graduate school. With Jonathan Choate, he directs the National Science Foundation's Dynamical Systems and Technology Project. The goal of this project is to show teachers how ideas from modern mathematics such as chaos, fractals, and dynamics, together with modern technology, can be used effectively in the high school curriculum. He is also involved in the Boston University Ordinary Differential Equations Project. In 1994 he received the Award for Distinguished University Teaching from the Northeastern section of the Mathematical Association of America. In 1995 he was the recipient of the Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished University Teaching at the annual meeting of the Mathematical Association of America held in San Francisco. In 1996, he was awarded the Boston University Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award.
For more information about Robert Devaney, check out his web site at http://math.bu.edu/people/bob/