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Year	Recipient	Name	Awarded by	Type	Department	Details
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
	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
2015	Elizabeth van Zyl	Kalenian Award	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate
2015	Sakshi Khurana	Crimson and Gray Awards	Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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
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
2009	Michael G. Bruce '94	Ichabod Washburn Young Alumni Award for Professional Achievement	WPI Alumni Association	Alumni
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
2018	Charles Lovering	Salisbury Prize	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Computer Science
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
2015	Michael Derryberry, Jermiah McCarthy	Provost's MQP Awards	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Electrical & Computer Engineering	"FPGA Real-Time Stoplight Detection" Advisor: Xinming Huang
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
2020	Petra Kumi	Provost's MQP Awards	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Mathematical Sciences	Anomaly Detection in Time Series Brain Data Generated by Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy
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
2020	William Battelle	Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Staff Member	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Staff	Events Office
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
2017	Lifelong Learning Chambers	Program of the Year	Worcester Polytechnic Institute			Phi Sigma Sigma
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
2020	Jordan Wynn
2017	Natalie S Wellen	Salisbury Prize	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Mathematical Sciences
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
2016	Kelly Beisswanger	Salisbury Prize	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2015	Veronica Rivero Gorrin	Crimson and Gray Awards	Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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
2007	Elke Rundensteiner	Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Faculty	Computer Science	Read the citation: 2007 Outstanding Research Award
2010	Elke Rudensteiner	Chair's Exemplary Faculty Prize	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Faculty	Computer Science	Computer Science Professor Elke Rundensteiner Receives WPI's 2010 Chairman's Exemplary Faculty Prize
2011	Warner S. Fletcher	WPI Award for Distinguished Service	WPI Alumni Association	Alumni
2018	Nina K. Simon '03	Ichabod Washburn Young Alumni Award for Professional Achievement	WPI Alumni Association	Alumni		Read the Citation: 2018 Ichabod Washburn Young Alumni Award, Nina K. Simon
2007	Michael J. Stephens '57	Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI	WPI Alumni Association	Alumni
2016	Michael E. Grilli '66	Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI	WPI Alumni Association	Alumni
1929	Richard K. Irons	Rhodes Scholar	Rhodes Trust	Alumni
2009	Elisabeth Beinke, Keilin Bickar, Joshua Doyle, Alexander Schwartz	Provost's MQP Awards	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Interactive Media & Game Development	"Memory Dash - a Multiplayer iPhone Game" Advisor: David Finkel
2018	Katharine Dunphy, Sophia Gomarlo, Katherine Moore	Provost's MQP Awards	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate		"Analyzing Fast-Track Effectiveness at ReadyMED Plus Worcester." Advisor: Renata Konrad Sponsor: Reliant Medical Group
2007	Nate Piper	Student Employee of the Year	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Undergraduate Admissions
2021	Nasim Mansuri	Provost's MQP Awards	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Professional Writing	Best Practices for Adapting Manufacturing Documentation
2018	Amy Toscano	CARE (Courageous, Aware, Responsible, Exceptional) Award	Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2020	Andrew Teixeira	National Science Foundation CAREER Award	National Science Foundation	Faculty	Chemical Engineering
2023	May Flores	Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate
2015	Hajar Jafferji	Fulbright U.S. Student Award	Fulbright U.S. Student Program	Graduate	Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering	Morocco WPI Doctoral Student Receives Fulbright Scholarship to Help Restore Historic City of Fès in Morocco
2015	A. Laurence Jones III	Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement	WPI Alumni Association	Alumni
2015	Lina Tran	Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship		Undergraduate
2016	Samanatha Swartz	Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award	Worcester Polytechnic Institute		Computer Science	Outstanding Major Qualifying Project
1991	Robert Long II	Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Faculty	Physics
2016	Michael Dorsey	Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Staff Member	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Staff	Marketing Communications