Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2015 Sina Youssefian Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2015 Yan Zhang Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Architectural Engineering
2015 Diana Lados Sigma Xi Outstanding Senior Faculty Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2015 Kyle J. Hudgins Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
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
2015 Hannah Brown Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2015 Christina Mary Bailey National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Chemical Engineering at WPI
2015 Kathi Fisler Chair's Exemplary Faculty Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty
2015 Umberto Mosco Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Mathematical Sciences

2015 Awards for Excellence in Teaching, Research, Advising, and Community Service Presented at Honors Convocation
2015 Connor Gillespie, Brien Hard, Casey Rota, Saloni Sachar President's IQP Awards First Runner Up Undergraduate

Lighting the Way to Fire Safety: Reducing Fire Risk in Namibia's Informal Sector Housing

Advisors: Professors Holly Ault and Tom Robertson

 
2015 Evelyn Grainger
2015 Kelsey McGlashan Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2015 Steven Como Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2015 Sonia Chernova Sigma Xi Outstanding Junior Faculty Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Computer Science
2015 Robert R. Martin '75 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Read the citation: 2015 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award, Robert R. Martin
2015 Julia Whitney Darcy National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Chemistry - Chemical Catalysis Yale University
2015 Nidhi M. Diwakar Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2015 Alexis Simpson Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2015 Conor Fahey Athletic Hall of Fame Worcester Polytechnic Institute Alumni
2015 Fabienne Furt Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Biology & Biotechnology

Outstanding Post-Doctoral Research
2015 Kelsey Stergiou Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2015 Peter Chambers Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2015 Swang Lee-Aphon Athletic Hall of Fame Worcester Polytechnic Institute Alumni
2015 Joseph D. Adams Jr. ’75 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
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
2015 Lydia Wermer National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Mechanical Engineering at WPI
2015 Jinghan Wu Two Towers Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering, Professional Writing
2015 Ali Akhtar IEEE Power & Energy Society Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2015 Daniel Gendin Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences

"Mathematical Model of Laminate Materials"

Advisor: Burt Tilley
2015 Gabriela Romero Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2015 Kemal Arsava Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering, Fire Protection Engineering

Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation
2015 Meghan Dawe Marietta E. Anderson Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2015 Rachel Blakely Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
2015 Taylor Flaxington Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2015 Michael Aghajanian ’80 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2015 A. Laurence Jones III '75 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Read the citation: 2015 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award, A. Laurence Jones III
2015 Sheila Patricia Werth National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Electrical and Electronic Engineering at University of Massachusetts Amherst
2015 Kimberly Marrion Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“Ethics, Dementia and Family: An Investigation into the Familial Issues that Arise with Dementia Patients,” major: Architectural Engineering, advisor: Bethel Eddy
2015 Paulo Carvalho Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“Developing and Composing for a Robotic Organ,” major: Biomedical Engineering and Robotics Engineering, minor: Electrical and Computer Engineering, advisor: Scott Barton
2015 Sonia Chernova Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Academic Advising Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Computer Science
2015 Katherine Picchione Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“Pokomchi Pictorial Literacy,” major: Mechanical Engineering and Society, Technology, and Policy, advisor: Ryan Madan
2015 Daniela Ruiz Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2015 Guy Scuderi Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2015 Rachel Wigell Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2015 Thomas Washburn Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2015 Jason Anderson ’95 Ichabod Washburn Young Alumni Award for Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2015 Joseph D. Adams, Jr. '75 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Read the citation: 2015 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award, Joseph D. Adams, Jr.
2015 Michael Delph Teaching Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2015 Fabeinne Miller Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty
2015 Allen Hoffman American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Ben Sparks Award Faculty