Outstanding Career Achievement Award

Each year, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) and the School of Engineering bestow two graduate alumni awards – the Outstanding Career Achievement Award and the Outstanding Service to Tufts Award.

The details of the Outstanding Career Achievement Award are below.

For more information on the Outstanding Service to Tufts Award, visit our Outstanding Service to Tufts Award page, or, if you would like to nominate a graduate alumnus/a for an award, please click here.

• Outstanding Career Achievement Award
  This award is given to a Tufts Graduate School of Arts and Sciences or School of Engineering graduate alumnus/a who has, with the help of his/her Tufts graduate education, excelled in his/her career of choice.
  
  Nominators are asked to include examples of the nominee's career achievements; contributions to his/her field; and current resume (if possible). Nominators may include additional letters of support/testimonials; articles about or published by the nominee, etc.

If you would like to submit a nomination, please click here.

To receive a paper nomination, please call 617.627.5826 or email robert.bochnak@tufts.edu. Paper nominations can be sent in via fax (617.627.3016) or mail (Graduate Studies-Tufts University, Ballou Hall-1st Floor, Medford, MA 02155). The awards will be given out during the Graduate Student Awards ceremony in April 2011.

Questions can be directed to 617.627.5826 or robert.bochnak@tufts.edu.

Past award winners include:

2010
Claire Van Ummersen, J57, G60, G63, Biology
Vice President, Center for Effective Leadership, American Council on Education

Y.A. Liu, EG70, Chemical Engineering
Frank C. Vilbrandt Endowed Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Virginia Tech

2009
Gregory Maguire, G90, English
Author of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West; Mirror Mirror; and Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

Robert Norton, EG70, Engineering Design
Milton P. Higgins II Distinguished Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

2008
Richard Syron, G69, G71, Economics
Chairman and CEO, Freddie Mac

Frank Pao, E71, EG73, Electrical Engineering
President, Atlantis Energy Systems, Inc.

2007
Iris Fanger, G72, Drama
Leading dance critic, scholar, and educator, whose articles have appeared in the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Boston Herald, and Dance Magazine.

David Rosowsky, E85, EG87, Civil Engineering
Department Head and A.P. and Florence Wiley Chair
Zachry Department of Civil Engineering
Texas A&M University

2006
Ioannis Miaoulis, E83, G86, Economics, EG87, Mechanical Engineering
President and Director, Museum of Science, Boston

2005
Michael, Tzannes, EG90, Electrical Engineering
CEO, Aware, Inc.

2004
Judi Zazula, G82, Occupational Therapy
Executive Director Emerita, Helping Hands: Monkey Helpers for the Disabled, Inc.

2003
Lynn Bratley, G86, Education
Founder and Director, the improbable PLAYERS