4th Annual GRI Awards Ceremony Held

September 28, 2010

For the fourth straight year, GRI held an awards ceremony to recognize the outstanding research conducted by the personnel and affiliated faculty of GRI. The awards ceremony was a brainstorm of Dr. Lori Bruce, past GRI Associate Director of Research. As in previous years, the 2009-2010 academic year was a successful one. Those recognized at this years ceremony were:

Graduate Research Assistant of the Year- Anish Turlapaty
Research Associate of the Year- Louis Wasson
Research Professor of the Year- Vladimir Alarcon.

Past winners include:

2009 Awards

Academic Professor- Bethany Stich
Research Professor- Scott Samson
Research Associate- Wade Givens
Graduate Research Assistant- Shangshu Cai

2008 Awards

Research Faculty- Pat Fitzpatrick (Honorable mention Surya Durbha and Raja Reddy)
Academic Faculty- Tie between Bill McAnally and Bill Cooke
Research Associate- Ryan Wersal (Honorable mention John Cartwright)
Research Assistant- Wilfredo Robles (Honorable mention Amrit Takur and Terrance West)

2007 Awards

Graduate Research Assistant- Saurabh Prasad
Research Associate- Valentine Anantharaj
Research Professor- John Madsen
Academic Professor- Gary Ervin