Outstanding Service to Tufts 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 Award.

The details of the Outstanding Service to Tufts Award are below.

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

Outstanding Service Award
This award recognizes a Tufts Graduate School of Arts and Sciences or School of Engineering graduate alumnus/a who has made exceptional contributions to Tufts since they have graduated. Nominees will have distinguished themselves through one or more of the following activities: teaching, supervision, consultation, research, institutional community development, administration, staff support, and/or scholarship.

Nominators are asked to include examples of the nominee's contributions to Tufts; a current resume (if possible). Nominators may include additional letters of support/testimonials from members of the Tufts community (administrators, faculty, and/or graduate students).

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
William H. Koster, G72, Chemistry

Jonathan G. Curtis, E69, EG72, Civil Engineering

2009
Alison "Sunny" Breed, J66, Sociology, G72, Education

Tyler Hooper, EG97, Mechanical Engineering

2008
David McGrath III, G83, Biology

Alva Couch, G88, Mathematics

2007
Erika Darling, E01, EG04, Engineering Management

Robyn Gittleman, G69, Education

2006
Joyce Barsam, J62, G89, French

2005
Luke Jorgensen, G00, Drama

2004
Kate Atkinson Kaplan, G95, Urban and Environmental Policy

2003
Anthony Cortese, E68, EG72, Civil Engineering

A Mighty Wind

Zafirakou

The answer may be blowing in the wind for Antigoni Zafirakou, G00. A faculty member in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece, Zafirakou is part of a research project aimed at predicting the movement of ocean-based oil spills.