Carper Award Winners
The Dr. N. Gordon Carper Lifetime Achievement Award was established in 1999 to honor individuals "for meritorious services in sustaining and enriching collegiate academic competitions". It was the inspiration of former Georgia Institute of Technology luminary Al Whited, who modeled it on the Fermi Award.
The award is presented annually to a member of the quiz bowl community who exhibits the kind of dedication to and long-term support of academic competitions as exemplified by career of Dr. Carper.
The Carper Award, while sponsored by ACF, is not limited to individuals with ACF affiliations.
- 1999 Dr. N. Gordon Carper of Berry College.
- 2000 Dr. Carol Guthrie of the University of Tennessee.
- 2001 Dr. Robert Meredith of the Georgia Institute of Technology.
- 2002 not presented
- 2003 Eric Hillemann of Carleton College.
- 2004 Don Windham of the University of Tennessee and Gaius Stern of the University of California, Berkeley
- 2005 Charlie Steinhice of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
- 2006 R. Robert Hentzel, formerly of Iowa State University, now of NAQT
- 2007 Andrew Yaphe, formerly of University of Virginia and the University of Chicago, currently with Stanford University.
- 2008 Chris Sewell, formerly of Texas A&M University and Stanford University.
- 2009 Ezequiel Berdichevsky, formerly of the University of Maryland, College Park and the University of Michigan
- 2010 Subash Maddipoti, formerly of the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois
- 2011 Seth Teitler, formerly of the University of Chicago and the University of California, Berkeley
- 2012 Jeff Hoppes, formerly of Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley
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