Annual Excellence Awards
FPS Annual Award Past Recipients
The Forest Products Society (FPS) honors outstanding leaders, researchers and emerging professionals in the forest products industry during its Annual Excellence Awards.
The annual awards recognize exceptional service to the Society, achievements in wood engineering, influential research and the next generation of professionals advancing wood science and technology.
Fred W. Gottschalk Memorial Award
| Paul Cooper 2012 |
Robert Ross 2013 |
Mark Gibson 2014 |
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David Patterson 2015 |
Eini Lowell 2016 |
Kevin Cheung 2017 |
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Lin Hu 2018 |
Richard Vlosky 2019 |
Maureen Puettmann 2020 |
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Daniel Hindman 2021 |
Timothy Young 2022 |
Nicole Stark 2023 |
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Joseph E. Jakes 2024 |
Gloria Oporto |
Wood Engineering Achievement Award
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Equilibrium Consulting 2012 |
Erol Karacebeyli 2013 |
Samuel L. Zelinka 2014 |
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Accsys Technologies ACCOYA 2015 |
Rakesh Gupta 2016 |
Joseph Jakes 2017 |
| Lin Hu 2018 |
Taysuya Shibusawa 2019 |
Arijit Sinha 2020 |
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Brian K. Via 2021 |
Richard F. Baldwin 2022 |
Emily Williamson 2023 |
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Mostafa Mohammadabadi 2024 |
Rado Gazo |
Wood Award
First Place |
Second Place |
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Yucheng Peng 2012 |
Brad Gething 2012 |
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Jinquan Han 2013 |
Qi Li 2013 |
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Jesse Loren Paris 2014 |
Ling Lu 2014 |
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Jianhui Zhou 2015 |
Kunlin Song 2015 |
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Changlei Xia 2016 |
Yalan Liu 2016 |
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Patrick Pan 2017 |
Paige McKinley 2017 |
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Nayomi Plaza 2018 |
Chad C. Hammerquist 2018 |
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Ju Dong 2019 |
Oluwatosin Oginni 2019 |
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Osei Asafu-Adjaye 2020 |
Saied Nikafshar 2020 |
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Munkaila Musah 2021 |
David Milsted 2021 |
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Marcel Kropat 2022 |
Nasim Alikhani 2022 |
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Yunyi Liang 2023 |
Cong Chen 2023 |
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Rakibul Hassain 2024 |
Suman Pradhan 2024 |
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Aadarsha Lamichhane |
Xuan Wang |
L.J. Markwardt Award
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Rastislav Lagana William G. Davids Lech Muszynski |
B. Kristoffer Segerholm Stefan Vellekoop Magnus E.P. Walinder 2013 |
Shan Gao Xiping Wang Lihai Wang R. Bruce Allison 2014 |
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Jan Oscarsson Anders Olsson Bertil Enquist 2015 |
Fred Kamke John Nairn Lech Muszynski Jesse Paris Matthew Schwarzkopf Xianghui Xiao 2016 |
Simon Aicher Zachary Christian Gordian Stapf 2017 |
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Clevan Lamason 2018 |
Birgit Anna-Lisa Joachim Schmid Michael Klippel Alar Just Norman Werther Daniel Brandon 2019 |
Huiyuan Guan Wengang Hu 2020 |
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Sigong Zhang 2021 |
Hongmei Gu Shaobo Liang Richard Bergman 2022 |
Tu X. Ho Detlef C. Laughery Arijit Sinha 2023 |
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Rafael da Rosa Azambuja David B. DeVallance Joseph McNeel Gregory A. Dahle 2024 |
K. Neupane J.D. Tang H. Lim J.T. Street K. Yim E. Gasparri |
Distinguished Service Award
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Bruce R. Learmonth 2012 |
David DeVallance 2018 |
Hui Wan 2019 |
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Paige Edelstien 2020 |
Nicole Stark 2021 |
Fred Kamke 2022 |
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Justin Price 2023 |
Christopher Hunt 2024 |
Terry Liles |