Howard Vollum Award

The Howard Vollum Award is an annual award that was created by Reed College and endowed in 1975 by a grant from the Millicent Foundation, now a part of the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust. The winner receives $5,000 and a silver medal encased in a walnut triptych.

The award was created in 1975 as a tribute to the late Howard Vollum, a 1936 Reed graduate and lifelong friend of the college. Winners of the award are selected for the perseverance, fresh approach to problems and solutions, and creative imagination that characterized Vollum's career. Past recipients include Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Leroy Hood.^[1]

Recipients

• 2013 - Kip S. Thorne
• 2012 - Ed Lazowska
• 2011 - Lynn M. Riddiford
• 2010 - Brian Druker
• 2009 - Carl E. Wieman
• 2008 - B. Kenneth Koe
• 2007 - Stanley Fields
• 2006 - Daniel Bump
• 2005 - Linus Torvalds
• 2004 - Warren M. Washington

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