2002 MIT Awards Convocation Recipients
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William F. Stewart Jr. Awards
Jovonne J. Bickerstaff ’02, Mendel Chuang ’02, Jaime E. Devereaux ’02, Michael R. Folkert G, Alvar Saenz Otero G, Annie K. Wang ’02
Harold J. Pettegrove Award
Todd S. Stefanik G
Pewter Bowl Award
Caroline M. Purcell ’02
Admiral Edward L. Cochrane Award
Yuval Mazor ’02
Betsy Schumacker Award
Princess Imoukhuede ’02
Howard W. Johnson Award
Sean J. Montgomery G
Malcolm G. Kispert Award
Daniel R. Feldman ’02 and Michele C. Verticchio ’02
D. Reid Weedon, Jr. ’41 Alumni/ae Relations Award
Sigma Chi
Frederick Gardiner Fassett, Jr. Awards
Rory P. Pheiffer ’02 and Yolanda Fan ’02
Edward L. Horton Fellowship Award
MIT Muslim Students’ Association
Irwin Sizer Award for the Most Significant Improvement in MIT Education
Professor David Lister, Physics Former Vice President and Dean for Research
Frank E. Perkins Award
Professor Rediger Dornbusch, Sloan School of Management
Graduate Student Council Teaching Award
Professor Keith Hampton, School of Architecture and Planning; Professor Kent F. Hansen and Manish Bhardwaj, School of Engineering;
Daniel B. Landau, School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences; Professor Georgia Perakis, Sloan School of Management
Goodwin Medal
Elizabeth A. Kensinger, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Kristin E. Finnegan Prize
Loren A. King, Ph.D. ’01
Everett Moore Baker Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
Professor John G. Brisson II, Mechanical Engineering;
Professor Ernest G. Cravalho, Mechanical Engineering;
Professor Barton Zwiebach, Physics
Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching
Professor Jesus A. del Alamo, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Arthur C. Smith Award
Professor Linn W. Hobbs, Materials Science & Engineering
John S.W. Kellett ’47 Award
Nils O. Fonstad G
Albert G. Hill Prize
Leonard J. Grant ’02 and Kateri A. Garcia ’03
Ronald E. McNair Scholarship Award
Melissa A. Edoh ’02, Nathan A. Fitzgerald ’02, Ebraheem I. Fontaine ’02, Irfan S. Pirmohamed ’02, Jeannette D. Stephenson ’02, and Huanne T. Thomas ’02
Association of MIT Alumae (AMITA) Senior Academic Award
Alexandra G. Ianculescu ’02;
Honorable Mention: Tiffany S. Santos ’02 and Emily M. Craparo ’02
Patrick J. McGovern ’59 Entrepreneurship Award
MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition
Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts
Kevin Q. Choi ’02
Laya and Jerome B. Wiesner Awards
Nathan A. Fitzgerald ’02 and Christopher Rakowski ’02
Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts
Jacquelyn A. Martino G, Augustine M. Urbas G,
and Cecilia E. Ramos ’05
Honorable Mention: Nicole A. Vlado ’02
Priscilla King Gray Award for Public Service
Selam Daniel ’02
James N. Murphy Award
Teresa O’Conner, Residential Life and Student Life Programs
Gordon Y Billard Award
Charlene M. Placido, Assistant Dean for Research;
Albert J. Guarino, Dormitory Housekeeper, Next House;
Steven M. Dimond, Manager, Copy Technology Centers
Laya Wiesner Community Award
Efrat Shavit ’02
Laya W. Wiesner Award
Radha K. Iyengar ’02
Karl Taylor Compton Prizes
Sudeb C. Dalai ’02 and Shunmugavelu D. Sokka G



