Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Awarded by Type Department Details
2018 Charles Lovering Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
2015 Veronica Rivero Gorrin Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2015 Philip B. Ryan '65 William R. Grogan Award for Support of the Mission of WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Read the citation: 2015 William R. Grogan Award

2008 Peter Christopher Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Mathematical Sciences

Read the citation: 2008 Outstanding Teaching Award

2017 Whitney Davis Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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

2008 Chelsea Bierkan, Courtney Rheault, Katharine Woodman Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering

"Adaptive Reuse Plan for the Worcester County Courthouse"

Advisor: Leonard ALbano

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

2000 Marcus Sarkis National Science Foundation CAREER Award National Science Foundation Faculty Mathematical Sciences
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
2022 Benjamin Beliveau, Lillian Taylor, and Delaney Tedtsen Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Environmental Engineering

β€œLead 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
2015 Lena Pafumi Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2011 Laura M. Amodeo '06 John Boynton Young Alumni Award for Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
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

2016 Erica A. Mason '96 John Boynton Young Alumni Award for Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
1992 Andreas N. Alexandrou Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2017 Toni Joy
1994 Yi H. Ma Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Chemical Engineering
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

2018 Abigail Hanson, Joshua Mace, Frederick Metters, Nicole Sherlock Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering

"Design of a Topical Antimicrobial Peptide Delivery Vehicle for the Treatment of Acne Vulgaris."

Advisor: Marsha Rolle

2016 Mike Ciaraldi Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty
2017 Rebecca L Burns Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Psychological Science
2018 Reid Billings CARE (Courageous, Aware, Responsible, Exceptional) Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2008 Robert A. Brown III '78 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2019 Killian Henson Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Alumni
2019 Peggy Isaacson Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Staff Member Worcester Polytechnic Institute Staff Marketing Communications
2021 Robert Starr Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2022 Dmitry Korkin Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Computer Science
2023 Jeannine Coburn National Science Foundation CAREER Award National Science Foundation Faculty Biomedical Engineering
2023 Madison Gass, Grace Jolin, Isabel Nearing, Kathryn Woodland Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering

"Detecting Ice Nucleation in Supercooled Red Blood Cell Samples"
Advisors: Sakthikumar Ambady, Ahmet Can Sabuncu

 

John Orr Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Faculty
2015 Jennifer Cluett Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Staff Member Worcester Polytechnic Institute Staff Undergraduate Admissions
2015 Brian Glatz Athletic Hall of Fame Worcester Polytechnic Institute Alumni
2016 Nayantara Chaisson
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

2018 Cielo Sharkus Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2015 Suzanne Weekes Denise Nicoletti Trustees' Award for Service to Community Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Mathematical Sciences

Read the citation: 2015 Denise Nicoletti Trustees Award

Awards for Excellence in Teaching, Research, Advising, and Community Service Presented at Honors Convocation
1977 Frank D. Defalco Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Civil, Environmental, & Architectural 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

1981 Kevin A. Clements Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Electrical & Computer Engineering
2017 Lifelong Learning Chambers Program of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Phi Sigma Sigma

2017 Ming Luo Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2016 Zachary Harmony, Erin Murphy, Jillian Proulx, Jeremy Soderholm Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering

"Gateway Student Center"

Advisors: Leonard Albano, Leffi Cewe-Molloy, Kenneth Elovitz

2017 Natalie S Wellen Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences