Award Recipients

For Civil Engineering at WPI

Read the citation: 2014 Romeo Award

For Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University

Read the citation: 2014 John Boynton Young Alumni Award, Joseph S. Klimek

For Social Psychology at Tufts University

For Environmental Engineering at University of Massachusetts Amherst

David Cyganski Receives WPI's 2013 Chairman's Exemplary Faculty Prize at Commencement

Read the citation: 2013 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award, Raymond M. Dunn

Growing up in Cairo, in the midst of the overwhelming inequalities in the healthcare system, I wanted nothing more than to become a practicing physician focused on improving healthcare quality for all. As I became integrated in the science behind the medical field, I was hooked. During my undergraduate studies at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, I have become fascinated by the field of cancer biology and its vast molecular processes. For my senior thesis at Harvard Medical School, I chose to focus on stem cell biology and cancer using the genetically-tractable zebrafish model of T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Since then, my passion is to understand the molecular underpinnings governing the genesis of tumors and be able to relate my studies in human patients. I am very honored to become part of the Gates community and I hope to one day contribute to the growth of translational research and become a leader in the Oncology field.

Read the citation: 2013 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award, William A. Fitzgerald III

Read the citation: 2013 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award, Timothy F. Horan

For Life Sciences – Ecology at Tufts University

Read the citation: 2013 John Boynton Young Alumni Award, David A. Wheeler

For Genomics at Pennsylvania State University