Founder’s Medal

  • Vanderbilt University

    Dean Fauchet recognizes outstanding 2021 engineering graduates

    Philippe Fauchet, Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Dean of Engineering, has announced outstanding 2021 engineering graduates, school and department award recipients. A video is here. Samantha Speer Samantha Avery Speer of Westlake Village, California, is Founder’s Medalist for the School of Engineering. She is graduating with a bachelor of science degree as… Read More

    May. 12, 2021

  • Vanderbilt University

    Founder’s Medal recipient chooses MIT over Microsoft

    The number of graduating college seniors who get lucrative offers to work for Microsoft and turn them down has to be small, but Curtis Northcutt is part of that select group. Curtis Northcutt The Vanderbilt senior has decided to take his computer science degree to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology… Read More

    May. 10, 2013