The Kalenian Award

The Kalenian Award, established in 2004 through the generosity of Alba Kalenian in memory of her late husband Aram (Class of 1933), provides seed funds to support and advance the ideas and inventiveness of WPI students, faculty and alumni(ae). Aram Kalenian was an inventor who had numerous useful ideas and reduced many of them to practice. The purpose of the Kalenian Award is to encourage similar innovation and entrepreneurship at any stage of development from the WPI academic community. This award’s focus is to fuel the entrepreneurial spirit through annual funding of a single viable invention.

Aram Kalenian’s inventions and hard work have provided the perpetual funds for this award, and in this same spirit we hope that award recipients will succeed so well in life, as to provide WPI with future award funds to encourage invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship in their own names.

Past Winners:

2015:

• Elizabeth van Zyl (Undergraduate)

2008:

• Dalin Tang (Faculty)