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A member of the Yale faculty since 1974, he was awarded The Yale College Dylan Hixon '88 Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Natural Sciences at the University Commencement in 1997. The award citation described Howe as a "patient and dedicated teacher" and read, in part: "If mathematics is a language, you certainly speak it beautifully. Fortunately for those who are not themselves native speakers, you have demonstrated a gift for making fundamental concepts in the structure of mathematics become familiar and intelligible ... ."
In the fall of that same year, Howe became the first incumbent of the Frederick Phineas Rose Professorship in Mathematics, a chair endowed by Yale alumnus and benefactor Frederick P. Rose to honor scholars of distinction who are also exceptional teachers.
The Yale mathematician holds a bachelor's degree from Harvard University and a doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley. He taught at the State University of New York at Stony Brook from 1969 until 1974, and during that time, was also a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and a research associate at the University of Bonn, Germany. He has held visiting professorships at the Ecole Normale des Jeunes Filles in Paris, Oxford University and Rutgers University, and was a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Fellow in 1996-1997 and a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1988. He was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1983 and was named a fellow of the Japan Society for the Advancement of Science in 1993.
At Yale, Howe has twice served as director of graduate studies in the Department of Mathematics (1982-1983 and 1986-1987) and chaired the department 1992-1995. He has been engaged in national initiatives focused on the teaching of mathematics, serving as chair of the American Mathematical Society's (AMS) Consultative Committee involved in a revision of national mathematics standards in 1998. He is the current chair of the AMS's Committee on Education. In addition, he served on the National Research Council's Committee on Mathematics Learning and for many years was on the board of directors of the Connecticut Academy for Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology. He is also the current chair of the Institute for Mathematical Science's Scientific Advisory Committee in Singapore.
Howe is a member of the National Academy of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering. His other honors include the American Mathematical Association's Lester R. Ford Award for exposition.
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