Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Awarded by Type Department Details
2021 Jessica M. Kelly Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Bioinformatics & Computational Biology

Investigating the relationship between mRNA degradation rates and secondary structure in mycobacteria

2011 Laura M. Amodeo '06 John Boynton Young Alumni Award for Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2016 Erica A. Mason '96 John Boynton Young Alumni Award for Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2022 Kwesi Sakyi Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2023 Loris Fichera National Science Foundation CAREER Award National Science Foundation Faculty
2023 Alex Friedman Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Professional Writing

"A Rhetorical Framework for Programming Language Design"
Advisor: Yunus Telliel

 

Pamela J. Weathers Society for in Vitro Biology Fellow Society for in Vitro Biology Faculty
2016 Samantha Ervin Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate International & Global Studies
2017 Toni Joy
2015 Elizabeth van Zyl Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2007 Kerri George (Biochemistry) Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

"The Effects of Ajulemic Acid on Osteoclast Differentiation"

Advisor: Jill Rulfs

2016 Marissa Bennett Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2015 Sakshi Khurana Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2017 Rebecca L Burns Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Psychological Science
2019 Katherine Handy Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2012 Christine Drew Denise Nicoletti Trustees' Award for Service to Community Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty

Read the citation: 2012 Denise Nicoletti Trustees Award

2012 Awards for Excellence in Teaching, Research, Advising, and Community Service Presented at Honors Convocation
2008 Virginia Ward Fulbright U.S. Student Award Fulbright U.S. Student Program Graduate International & Global Studies

Taiwan

2008 Kristen L. Billiar Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Academic Advising Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Biomedical Engineering

Read the citation: 2008 Academic Advising Award

2012 Carrick Eggleston Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering

India

2011 Taskin Padir Romeo L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Electrical & Computer Engineering

Read the citation: 2011 Romeo Award

2020 Christine Kobza Advisor of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Council

2015 Michael Derryberry, Jermiah McCarthy Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering

"FPGA Real-Time Stoplight Detection"

Advisor: Xinming Huang

2021 Catherine M. Hogan Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics

Computational Characterization of a Millimeter-Wave Heat Exchanger with AlN:Mo Cylindrical Susceptors

2012 Brian W Chu '92 Ichabod Washburn Young Alumni Award for Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Read the citation: 2012 Ichabod Washburn Young Alumni Award, Brian W Chu

2020 Yanhua Li National Science Foundation CAREER Award National Science Foundation Faculty Computer Science
2023 Amity Manning Sigma Xi Outstanding Junior Faculty Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Biology & Biotechnology
2017 John M. Sullivan Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Academic Advising Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Mechanical & Materials Engineering

2017 Awards for Excellence in Teaching, Research, Advising, and Community Service Presented at Honors Convocation

2016 Kelly Beisswanger Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2009 David Munger Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering

"The Use of Photoresist Derived Carbon as Microelectrodes for Genetic Assays"

Advisor: Susan Zhou

2018 Charles Lovering Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
2017 Lifelong Learning Chambers Program of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Phi Sigma Sigma

2015 Veronica Rivero Gorrin Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2017 Natalie S Wellen Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences
2008 Peter Christopher Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Mathematical Sciences

Read the citation: 2008 Outstanding Teaching Award

2008 Joel J. Brattin Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Humanities & Arts

Read the citation: 2008 Outstanding Research Award

2017 Christopher Pierce Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics

"Removal of Accidental Degeneracy in Cubic Quantum Dots."

Advisor: L. Ramdas Ram-Mohan

2013 David Cyganski Chair's Exemplary Faculty Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Electrical & Computer Engineering

David Cyganski Receives WPI's 2013 Chairman's Exemplary Faculty Prize at Commencement

2020 Jordan Wynn
2007 William W. Rawstron '57 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2018 Christine Schondek Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2011 Stuart C. Kazin '61 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2015 Kyle J. Hudgins Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2022 Benjamin Beliveau, Lillian Taylor, and Delaney Tedtsen Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Environmental Engineering

“Lead and Copper Corrosion in Drinking Water Systems 

Advisor: Jeanine Dudley

1991 Tahar El-Korchi National Science Foundation CAREER Award National Science Foundation Faculty
2016 Katherine R. Picchoine Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2009 Daniel Tennant, Julia Berg, Joseph Strong Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Interactive Media & Game Development

"Petrified"

Advisor: Robert W. Lindeman

2015 Lena Pafumi Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2007 Kristin Collette Student Employee of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Undergraduate Admissions
2018 Jeevan Ramapriya '98 Ichabod Washburn Young Alumni Award for Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Read the Citation: 2018 Ichabod Washburn Young Alumni Award, Jeevan Ramapriya

2016 Charles Frick Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Outstanding Major Qualifying Project