Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Awarded by Type Department Details
2023 Colby Frechette, Iris Morin Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Social Science & Policy Studies

Monitoring Ocean Microplastics Through Citizen Science"
Advisors: Laureen Elgert, George Heineman

 
2008 Helen G. Vassallo '82 William R. Grogan Award for Support of the Mission of WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2016 Rhonda Podell Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Staff Member Worcester Polytechnic Institute Staff Mathematical Sciences
2018 Faith Kurtz Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2009 Samantha G. McGill Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Manufacturing Engineering

"Market and Business Analysis of Microthreads"

Advisors: Helen Vassallo, George Pins
2017 Joe Stabile Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty
2003 Nikolaos Kazantzis National Science Foundation CAREER Award National Science Foundation Faculty Chemical Engineering
2019 Peter DiPersio Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2019 Rosie McCarthy Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2016 Caroline Mazzola Emerging Leader of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Kaveh Pahlavan Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Faculty
2008 Matthew J. Friend '93 John Boynton Young Alumni Award for Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2016 Celeste Marsan Undergraduate
2021 Luigi Apollon, Kathryn Nippert, Emily Stead Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Psychological Science

Selegiline: The Effects of Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors on the Behavior and Physiology of Caenorhabditis Elegans
2016 Niamh Fennessy Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2016 Heather Cirka Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Fellowship Graduate Biomedical Engineering
2013 Steven C. Halstedt '68 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Read the citation: 2013 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award, Steven C. Halstedt
2021 Jacob Whitehill National Science Foundation CAREER Award National Science Foundation Faculty Computer Science
1975 Romeo L. Moruzzi Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Electrical & Computer Engineering
2013 Helen Vassallo Alumni
2023 Devon Poisson Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2016 Robert Antoine, Michael Bowen, Grace Howard Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Environmental Engineering

"Reducing Phosphorous Contamination in Stormwater Runoff"

Advisors: Fred Hart, Suzanne LePage
2017 James Mayer Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Read the citation: 2017 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award, James Mayer
2018 Elizabeth Towle Student Employee of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Information Technology Services
2017 Abigail Elizabeth King Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2019 Erika Miyajima Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2019 Sarah Wodin-Schwartz Romeo L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Mechanical & Materials Engineering

Excellence in Teaching, Research, Advising, and Community Service Recognized at Honors Convocation

Read the citation: 2019 Romeo L. Moruzzi Award

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2017 Elizabeth Desjardins Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2005 Joseph A. Doiron Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty Integrative & Global Studies

Albania
2008 Briana Morey, Ravi Vasudevan Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering

"100W Class D Audio Amplifier"

Advisors: John McNeil, Andrew Klein
2019 Hate Has No Place Here Diversity Program of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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1997 John McNeill National Science Foundation CAREER Award National Science Foundation Faculty Electrical & Computer Engineering
2018 Margarite Vaccaro Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Balgobin Nandram American Statistical Association Fellow American Statistical Association Faculty
2009 Robert H. Mason '94 Ichabod Washburn Young Alumni Award for Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2021 Robbie Starr CARE (Courageous, Aware, Responsible, Exceptional) Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2016 Emma Healey Student Employee of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Career Development Center
2021 Connor Anderson, Achu Balasubramanian, Henry Poskanzer Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science

Studying and Visualizing Contagion on Graphs
Samantha Sequeira, MS Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2010 Kenneth Stafford Denise Nicoletti Trustees' Award for Service to Community Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty

Read the citation: 2010 Denise Nicoletti Trustees Award

2010 Awards for Excellence in Teaching, Research, Advising, and Community Service Presented at Honors Convocation
2015 Michael J. Aghajanian '80 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Read the citation: 2015 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award, Michael J. Aghajanian
2006 Carolann Koleci Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Academic Advising Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Physics

Read the citation: 2006 Academic Advising Award
2009 Scott Jiusto Romeo L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Integrative & Global Studies

Read the citation: 2009 Romeo Award
2022 Clarissa Casilla Luzardo, Hannah Gelman, Alejandro Gerov Armas, Abigail Perlee Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Industrial Engineering

“WPI Dining Services Delivery Plan”

Advisor: Sara Saberi
2015 Andrew Beaupre, Tyle Collins, Aras Nehir Keskin, Cody Woodard-Wallace Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering

"Design and Production of a 3-D Printed Wireless Hexapod"

Advisor: David Planchard
2022 Charles Baldwin, Jasmine Duerk, Kaamil Lokhandwala, Dylan Valev Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Interactive Media & Game Development

“Moonsighted”

Advisors: Farley Chery, Gillian Smith
2015 Brian Eccles, Brendan McLeod, Timothy Murcko, Thomas Watson, Mitchell Wills Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"WALRUS Rover" 

Advisors: Sonia Chernova, Taskin Padir, Ken Stafford
2009 Diran S. Apelian Chair's Exemplary Faculty Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2018 Tyler McNeill Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2003 Richard Ballard, Andrew Fowler, Colin Joyce, Jason Myatt President's IQP Awards Undergraduate

"Sustainable Development Mini-Guides"

Advisor: Hossein Hakim