Kansas University math professor Bozenna Pasik-Duncan was chosen to receive a Chancellors Club Teaching Professorship, providing a salary stipend of $10,000 per year for the next five years, Kansas University Endowment announced Wednesday.

Pasik-Duncan has taught mathematics at KU since 1984, and she also is a courtesy professor in the departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Aerospace Engineering. She previously taught mathematics for 14 years at the Warsaw School of Economics in Poland.

Pasik-Duncan has numerous teaching awards, professional memberships and honors. Colleagues called her enthusiastic and inspirational.

Professor of mathematics Bozenna Pasik-Duncan is pictured teaching a class at KU in this 2014 file photo.

“Professor Pasik-Duncan has a long and distinguished record of teaching and mentoring students at KU, and she has done so with singular enthusiasm and passion,” Daniel Katz, chair of KU’s math department, said in KU Endowment’s news release. “She brings her love of teaching and her love of mathematics into the classroom, and this has been a source of inspiration for her students.”

Pasik-Duncan said she was honored and grateful to be recognized for her “true passion” of teaching others. She said in the news release, “Big thanks from the bottom of my heart go to all who made this happen.”

Pasik-Duncan will be honored at KU Endowment’s Chancellors Club celebration on Oct. 30.