Awards
Annual Dinner Honorees | YSEA Science Fair Award | Grants
For over 90 years, the YSEA has recognized many distinguished science and engineering alumni through the giving of the Annual YSEA Awards. For a complete listing of previous award winners, please click here to view the YSEA Hall of Achievement.
2009 YSEA Annual Meeting -- See the article about this meeting on the School of Engineering and Applied Science website.
April 23, 2009
Yale Science & Engineering Association holds 94th Annual Meeting
The Yale Science & Engineering Association, Inc. held its Annual Meeting & Awards Dinner on the evening of April 23, 2009 on the Yale University campus. Attended by some 70 alumni members and guests, this event marked the 95th year of YSEA efforts aimed at encouraging and recognizing excellence and accomplishment in members of the Yale engineering and science community.
At this dinner meeting, YSEA presented major awards to three distinguished Yale-degree holders for their professional and civic contributions. Cornell Goldwin Smith professor of physics Paul McEuen '91 Ph.D., received the YSEA Award for the Advancement of Basic and Applied Science for his distinguished contributions in carbon nanotubes, quantum dots, and becoming a world authority on quantum systems. Paul A. Fleury '01 M.A.H, Yale Frederick W. Beinecke professor of Engineering & Applied Physics and former dean, Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science, accepted the YSEA Award for Meritorious Service to Yale University for his leadership, loyalty, and effective contributions to science policy and research at Yale. George W. Mead II '50 B.S., chairman of the board, The Dean Witter Foundation,
was granted the YSEA Award for Distinguished Service to Industry, Commerce or Education for his many contributions as a scientist, engineer, and philanthropist.
2008 YSEA Annual Meeting
April 11, 2008
Yale Science & Engineering Association holds 94th Annual Meeting
The Yale Science & Engineering Association, Inc. held its Annual Meeting & Awards Dinner on the evening of April 11, 2008 on the Yale University campus. Attended by some 50 alumni members and guests, this event marked the 94th year of YSEA efforts aimed at encouraging and recognizing excellence and accomplishment in members of the Yale engineering and science community.
At this dinner meeting, YSEA presented major awards to three distinguished Yale-degree holders for their professional and civic contributions. Yale Arthur T Kemp professor of chemistry Mark Albert Johnson, 93 M.A.H., received the YSEA Award for the Advancement of Basic and Applied Science for his outstanding research, scholarship, and leadership in the fields of the chemistry of water and molecular spectroscopy. Yale Eugene Higgins professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry Donald M. Engelman, ’67 Ph.D., accepted the YSEA Award for Meritorious Service to Yale University for his leadership, loyalty, and effective contributions to science policy and research at Yale. Yale professor of Electrical Engineering Peter J. Kindlmann,’66 Ph.D., was granted the YSEA Award for Distinguished Service to Industry, Commerce or Education for his distinguished career as entrepreneur, as engineering consultant to industry, and as teacher and mentor to many Yale students.
YSEA Annual Meeting Special Award Recipients History
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Our Award recipients are featured by the School of Engineering and Applied Science in the YSEA Hall of Achievement
AWARD FOR MERITORIOUS SERVICE TO YALE UNIVERSITY
This award is conferred upon a distinguished scientist or engineer who has given outstanding service to Yale University, or a member of the business community who has given outstanding service to science or engineering at Yale University.
2009 Recipient: Paul A. Fleury '01 M.A.H; Frederick W. Beinecke professor of Engineering & Applied Physics and former dean, Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science.
"For leading Yale Engineering as dean to new frontiers and instituting initiatives to restore Yale’s engineering program to national prominence."
Past Recipients of this Award
Phillip S. Babb
Richard C. Barker
Perry R. Bass
Clifford R. Beardsley
Henry Prentiss Becton
Hugo H. Beit
Robert Harding Bliss
Charles Bockelman
D. Allan Bromley
W. Jack Cunningham
Edward A. Dennis
Barnett F. Dodge
Samuel W. Dudley
Donald M. Engelman
Smith Ferguson
Richard F. Flint
A. Bartlett Giamatti
Thomas K. Glennan
Thomas E. Golden, Jr.
William D. Glover
Gary L. Haller |
Milton Harris
John M. Henske
J. William Hinckley
Pierre C. Hohenberg
Richard A. Huettner
George Evelyn Hutchinson
Peter J. Kindlmann
John Joseph Lee
Oliver Lyford
J. Robert Mann, Jr.
Champion H. Mathewson
James M. McBride
John Perry Miller
George S. Moore
Thomas E. Murray
William W. Nichols
William H. Oler
Frederick Phineas Rose
Arthur Ross
Ely M.T. Ryder
Edward L. Ryerson |
Frank H. Ruddle
Charles F. Scott
Marvin Lloyd Sears
Ivan Selin
Phillip H. Sellew
Herbert L. Seward
Milton Steinbach
Ray Sterns
Evalena Bassett Strong
Frank B. Stubbs
Roscoe Suttie
Horace Taft
Hugh R. Taylor
Edwin Thorne
John C. Tracy
Juan H. Trippe
Charles A. Walker
Arthur E. Weberer
Robert G. Wheeler
Frank O. H. Williams
Werner P. Wolf |
AWARD FOR ADVANCEMENT OF BASIC AND APPLIED SCIENCE
This award is conferred upon an individual who has received an undergraduate or graduate degree from Yale University or is a member of the Yale Faculty. While it has generally been awarded for a record of professional competence in a particular field of science or engineering, the choice of the recipient is not explicitly limited. The candidate may have made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of a scientific discipline in general, not necessarily through frontier research.
2009 Recipient: Paul McEuen '91 Ph.D.; professor, Cornell University.
"For distinguished contributions in carbon nanotubes, quantum dots, and becoming a world authority on quantum systems."
Past Recipients of this Award
Joseph P. Allen IV
Sidney Altman
William Arnett
George R. Arthur
R.C. Barker
Robert J. Birgeneau
Ray E. Bolz
D. Allan Bromley
Harold Brown
Robert W. Bucheim
John Baecher Butt
James J. Carberry
Seymour B. Cohn
Robert W. Cornell
Donald M. Crothers
Edward L. Cussler
Peter B. Dervan
James J. Duderstadt
Alvan R. Feinstein
John Bennett Fenn |
J. D. Fennebresque
Gerald R. Fink
George W. Flynn
Christopher S. Foote
Charlotte Freund
Robert L. Fullman
David H. Gelernter
Murray Gell-Mann
F. S. Godsey
Lawrence Grossman
Walter R. Hibbard, Jr.
Joseph F. Hoffman
John Imbrie
Downing B. Jenks
Mark A. Johnson
Richard D. Klausner
Andrew C. Kummel
Vincent T. Marchesi
Ira Seth Melman
James L. Meriam |
Peter Bartlett Moore
Philip Ordung
Lisa D. Pfefferle
Richard Porter
Mark A. Reed
George S. Reichenbach
Daniel E. Resasco
Warren M. Rohsenow
Albert L. Ruiz
Peter M. Schultheiss
Maxine Frank Singer
Mitchell D. Smooke
Joseph E. Stepanek
Julius T. Tou
James W. Truran
John C. Tully
Robert W. Walker
Ralph T. Yang
Felix Zweig |
AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE TO INDUSTRY, COMMERCE OR EDUCATION
This award is conferred upon an individual, outside of the Yale University community, who has received a degree from Yale, who is recognized for a career reflecting creditably upon the University, and who, through preeminence in science or engineering, has achieved distinction in industry, commerce or education.
2009 Recipient: George W. Mead II '50 B.S.; chairman of the board, The Dean Witter Foundation.
" For your many contributions as a scientist, engineer, and philanthropist.”
Past Recipients of this Award
David Walter Barry
Tze-Chiang Chen
William J. Dixon
Richard N. Foster
Gordon H. Geiger |
Michael H. Jordan
George A. Keyworth, II
C. Judson King
Peter J. Kindlmann
Richard L. Kline |
George M. Milne, Jr.
Joseph F. Paquette, Jr.
Henry B. Schacht
John S. Toll |
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