2024 Award Winners

 Bronze Beaver

Each year, the MIT Alumni Association presents volunteer leadership awards, which recognize, honor, and reward outstanding accomplishments and service to the Alumni Association and to MIT. 

Listed below are the 2024 award recipients. Photos and Biographies for this year's winners will be added in the coming months leading up to the Alumni Leadership Conference, where they will be honored!

  • Pictured: The Bronze Beaver Award, the highest honor the Alumni Association can bestow upon any of its members.

Bronze Beaver Award

The Bronze Beaver Award is given in recognition of distinguished service to the Institute and/or its Association of Alumni and Alumnae by alumni who have been active in most or all phases of alumni activity and who have been outstanding in at least one phase. This award is the highest honor the Alumni Association can bestow upon any of its members.

  • Lola Bryan ’91, SM ’92
  • Marilyn Taggi Cisar ’76 
  • David Fung ’85 
  • Nelson P. D. Lin SM ’87, PhD ’91 
  • Richard Lufkin ’68 

Henry B. Kane ’24 Award

The Henry B. Kane ’24 Award is given in recognition of exceptional service and accomplishments in fundraising for the Alumni Association and MIT. 

  • Richard Blanchard ’68, SM ’70 
  • Michael Dornbrook ’75 
  • Barry Newman ’79 
  • Reginald Van Lee ’79, SM ’80 
  • Sally Yu ’00 

Harold E. Lobdell ’17 Distinguished Service Award

The Harold E. Lobdell ’17 Distinguished Service Award is given in recognition of alumni relations service to the Alumni Association and MIT that is of special depth over a sustained period.

  • Anthony Davis SM ’85 
  • Paul Green ’73 
  • Elaine Harris ’78 
  • Lawrence Kelly ’70, SM ’72 
  • Samuel Nixon ’77 
  • Sawaka Romaine ’01 
  • Judy Stein ’78 
  • Stephanie Tan MBA ’98 
  • Raul Valdez ’94 

Margaret L. A. MacVicar ’65, ScD ’67 Award

The Margaret L. A. MacVicar ’65, ScD ’67 Award is given in recognition of innovation, dedication, and meaningful impact for the Alumni Association or the Institute in any area of volunteer activity, showing strong potential for future volunteer leadership for the Alumni Association.

  • Gayatri Aryan MBA ’18 
  • Mark Johnston ’84, SM ’93 
  • Cory Kidd SM ’03, PhD ’08 
  • Forrest Liau ’06, PhD ’13 
  • Adedoyin Olateru-Olagbegi ’20 
  • Yinghua Shen ’17 
  • Henry Tan MBA ’04 
  • Wendi Zhang ’09

George B. Morgan ’20 Award

The George B. Morgan ’20 Award is given in recognition of sustained excellence in all aspects of Educational Council activity, including dedication to MIT, an abiding concern for and sensitivity to the interests of prospective students, and exceptional standards of achievement and professionalism in meeting council responsibilities.

  • Susan Beiter '92, SM '93 
  • Jeffrey Folinus '71, SM '73 
  • Robert Heinze SM '68 
  • John Morefield SM '88 
  • Robert Schaffel '71 
  • Juan Eduardo Torres '82 
  • Joel Winett '60, EE '65 

Great Dome Award

The Great Dome Award is given in recognition of distinguished service to the Alumni Association and MIT by alumni organizations.

  • Lee Allen ’77, SM ’94
  • Willie Baldwin ’88
  • Celia Berry ’78
  • Sean Cadogan ’90
  • Angela Chaney ’76
  • Nicola Chin ’89
  • Crystal Dixon ’90
  • Michael Dixon ’88
  • Louis Fouche ’07
  • Michael Garrett ’90
  • Cheryl Gill ’92
  • Diane Hargrove ’78
  • Elaine Harris ’78
  • Renee Harton ’07
  • Austin Harton ’77, SM ’79, PhD ’88
  • Yolanda Hinton ’77, SM ’80
  • Michael Dornu Kitcher ’18, PD ’22
  • Valencia Koomson ’98, MEng ’99
  • Shannon Martin ’00
  • Samuel Nixon ’77
  • Jerryl Payne ’74
  • Darcy Prather ’91
  • Professor Kristala Prather ’94
  • Cordelia Price ’78, SM ’82
  • Karl Reid ’84, SM ’85
  • Jimmie Russell ’75
  • Zhelinrentice Scott ’01
  • Dana Swann ’77
  • Charles Taylor ’77
  • Karen Terrell ’94
  • Reginald Van Lee ’79, SM ’80
  • Leigh Watlington ’77
  • Mae Wesson ’75
  • Stefanie Wiggins-Baldwin ’88
  • Gary Wilkes ’74, CHE ’76, Eng ’76, SM ’76
  • Sylvia Zachary ’85
  • Doreleena Sammons Hackett ’75
     

  • Robert Howard ’67
  • Stanley Rose ’67, SM ’69
  • John Rudy ’67, SM ’68
  • George Sacerdote ’67
  • James Swanson ’67

  • Geoffrey Baskir ’78
  • James Bidigare ’78
  • Candace Clampitt ’78
  • Roy Haygood ’78
  • Vincent James ’78
  • Allan Mink ’78
  • Elizabeth Ng ’78
  • Teresa Nolet ’78, SM ’79
  • Richard Perlstein ’78
  • Robin Schlinger ’78
  • Adam Schneider ’78
  • Jeffrey Stein ’78
  • Steven Webster ’78, SM ’79
  • David Woodruff ’78

  • Mina Marefat PhD ’88
  • Anne Street ’69, SM ’72
  • Gilberto Villacorta PhD ’87
  • Robert Whinnery ’77
  • Stacy Yu ’98

  • Yu-Ying Chao MBA ’11
  • Shun-Min Lee PhD ’96
  • Hau Yee Ng-Lo ’84
  • Sawaka Romaine ’01
  • Xiao Shen MNG ’08
  • Phuree Smittinet MBA ’12
  • Lulu Tsao ’86
  • David Wu ’90

  • Erik Balsley ’96, MCP ’97
  • James Black, Jr ’69, SM ’71
  • Matthew Connelly ’15
  • John Cooley ’05, MEng ’07, Eng ’10, PhD ’11
  • John Everett ’76, PhD ’91
  • Bethany Grant ’93, SM ’97
  • Diane Medved Harper ’80, SM ’82
  • Raymond Hill ’05, SM ’07
  • Ahsan Iqbal ’84
  • Andrea Jensen ’95
  • Robert Dowling Lentz ’98, SM ’99
  • John Miller ’05
  • Stephen Morales ‘93
  • Linda Muri ’85
  • William Hugh Nelson ’66
  • Annika Rollock ’18
  • Jocelyn Seng ’84, SM ’85
  • Laura Venditti ’90 

  • Lawrence Bass ’75, EE ’78, SM ’78
  • Kevin Campbell ’76, SM ’77
  • Lincoln Chandler SM ’05, PhD ’08
  • Austin Harton ’77, SM ’79, PhD ’88
  • Renee Harton ’07
  • Michelle Harton SM ’83
  • Denise Lewin Loyd SM ’94
  • Bernard Loyd ’83, SM ’85, PhD ’89, SM ’90
  • Eric McKissack ’75
  • Claudia Perry ’81
  • Kathy Randolph SM ’87

Honorary Membership

The constitution of the Alumni Association, adopted at its annual meeting held on December 30, 1897, provided that “anyone who has rendered outstanding service to the Association or the Institute” might be elected to Honorary Membership. This includes any present or former member of the Corporation, or any present or former officer of administration or instruction on the staff of the Institute, as well as their spouses.

  • Whitney T. Espich 
  • Jerome Smith