Rate My Professor John Noonan

In 2022, Dr. Noonan received the prestigious 2021-2022 Excellence in Teaching Award from MVNU, presented during the Class of 2022 honors ceremony. Dr. Barney Cochran, Vice President for Academic Affairs, commended Noonan's organized and clear instruction, passionate delivery, creative pedagogical approaches, effective use of new technologies, incorporation of humor, and infectious enthusiasm that transforms complex mathematical concepts into engaging learning experiences for students. Noonan's scholarly contributions focus on combinatorics, with key publications from his doctoral research including 'The number of permutations containing exactly one occurrence of a given pattern' published in 1996, 'The Goulden-Jackson Cluster Method: Extensions, Applications, and Implementations' co-authored with Doron Zeilberger, and 'New Upper Bounds for the Connective Constants of Self-Avoiding Walks on Alternating Zigzag Hierarchies of Square Lattices' in 1998. These works have garnered citations contributing to over 300 total citations as noted on his academic profile. Furthermore, he has engaged with the intersection of mathematics and faith, presenting papers such as 'The Consequences of Believing in an Infinite God' and reflections on mathematical proofs and divine omniscience at conferences of the Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences. Noonan has also been acknowledged in resources on quantitative literacy.