Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2015 Mark Mantell Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2015 Nidhi Diwakar
2015 Xinxin Ding Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology

Outstanding Major Qualifying Project

2015 Angelica Zawada, Tyler Alexander, Nysa Casha Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Social Science & Policy Studies

"Determinants of Success in WPI Student-Led Organizations"

Advisors: Jim Doyle, Sharon Wulf

2015 William Louis Herbert '05 John Boynton Young Alumni Award for Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Read the citation: 2015 John Boynton Young Alumni Award, William Louis Herbert

2015 Sarah Olson National Science Foundation CAREER Award National Science Foundation Faculty Mathematical Sciences
2015 Jordan Jones (BME), Rebecca Lee (BME), Mikayla Pasciuto (ME), and Shreyas Renganathan (BME) Strage Innovation Award First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

MilkSafe Storage Device - The MilkSafe team is prototyping an affordable lean-in-concept cooling container to store mother’s milk at appropriate temperatures for up to 16 hours. In low-income nations, such as Haiti, where electricity, refrigeration, and ice are not readily or reliably available, the team intends to use this product to facilitate storing mother’s milk while she is away from her infant at work and help reduce the number of infant deaths there due to malnutrition.

2015 Joseph Berger, Jamie Stephen, Taylor Stephen, Barrett Wolfson Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Algae Biofuel Enhancement Project

2015 Glenn Gaudette KEEN Outstanding Faculty Award Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN) Faculty
2015 Gary Pollice Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Computer Science

2015 Awards for Excellence in Teaching, Research, Advising, and Community Service Presented at Honors Convocation

2015 Jim Cocola Romeo L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Humanities & Arts

Read the citation: 2015 Romeo Award

2015 Awards for Excellence in Teaching, Research, Advising, and Community Service Presented at Honors Convocation
2015 Suzanne Weekes Faculty
2015 Alex Hyman Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2015 Evan White Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
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