Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Awarded by Type Department Details
2021 Samantha Grillo Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2018 Suzanne Sontgerath Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Staff Member Worcester Polytechnic Institute Staff Pre-Collegiate Outreach Programs
2022 George Heineman Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Computer Science
2019 Michael Cooke, Thomas Kouttron Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering

"Recreating Steam Power at WPI."

Advisor: Robert Daniello

2015 Luke Habib Emerging Leader of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2023 Melanie Castillo, Jacob Gassenheimer, Michael Maffeo, Kristen Stilin Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering

"A Structural Redesign of Terminal E at Logan Airport"
Advisor: Tahar El-Korchi


 

2019 Panhellenic Council Edwin Coghlin ’23 Award for Community Service Worcester Polytechnic Institute Student Group

Elm Park Community School

2016 Heather Cirka Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Biomedical Engineering

Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation

1989 Harold W. Hilsinger Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Physics
1991 Ryszard J. Pryputniewicz Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2015 Morteza Khaleghi i3: Investing in Ideas with Impact Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering

Overall People's Choice

2008 Walter T. Towner, Jr. '83 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2009 Jessie A. Brasefield, Douglas K. Tischer Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

"Exploring Apoptin's Anti-Cancer Ability:  Uncoupling Nucleocytoplasmic Shuttling and Multimerization"

2012 Kimberley B Sullivan, PE '92 Ichabod Washburn Young Alumni Award for Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Read the citation: 2012 Ichabod Washburn Young Alumni Award, Kimberley B Sullivan

2020 Katherine Vaz Gomes Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Professional Writing

Segurança e Pesquisa: A Case Study of Translation & Localization of Standard Operating Procedures in the BIOTAR Laboratory

2017 Lisa Wall Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Staff Member Worcester Polytechnic Institute Staff Biomedical Engineering
2021 Kweku Sam Colecraft Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering

MOF-5 Cap and Guest Interplay

2018 Irene Wong Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2022 Adam Murrison '23 Student Employee of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Kathy Notarianni Society of Fire Protection Engineering Fellow Society of Fire Protection Engineering Faculty
2015 Christina Aiello Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2023 Kate Beverage Denise Nicoletti Trustees' Award for Service to Community Worcester Polytechnic Institute Staff IT Services & Support
2017 Daniel Shrives Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2015 Nicole Maglione Athletic Hall of Fame Worcester Polytechnic Institute Alumni
2019 Sophia Gervasio Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2016 Sarah Hernandez Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Fellowship Graduate Biology & Biotechnology
1974 Raymond R. Hagglund Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2011 Rev. Peter Scanlon Alumni
2016 Reed Gontarek, Bryan Jung, Zachary Rahl, Emma Raymond, Lailah Thompson Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Manufacturing Capacity Stimulation at Primetals Technologies"

Advisors: Walter Towner, Helen Vassallo

2008 Samuel Pullara III '93 Ichabod Washburn Young Alumni Award for Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2009 Matthew Dailey, Ilan Shomorony Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences

"Physically Unclonable Functions"

Advisors: William Martin, Berk Sunar

2012 Diana Lados National Science Foundation CAREER Award National Science Foundation Faculty Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2019 Chisom Okafor Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2017 John Kelly Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Read the citation: 2017 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award, John Kelly

2014 Linwood E. Bradford, Jr. '89 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Read the citation: 2014 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award, Linwood E. Bradford, Jr.

2018 Patrick Bresnahan Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2021 Mia Buccowich, Andrew Strauss Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Partial Hand Prosthetic

2017 Angelina Maria Nicolella Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2019 Rosa Reynoso Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2016 Dirk Albrecht Romeo L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Biomedical Engineering

Read the citation: 2016 Romeo L. Moruzzi Award

2016 Awards for Excellence in Teaching, Research, Advising, and Community Service Presented at Honors Convocation
2021 Kun-Ta Wu National Science Foundation CAREER Award National Science Foundation Faculty Physics
2016 Jon Abraham Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Academic Advising Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Mathematical Sciences

 

 

 

2016 Awards for Excellence in Teaching, Research, Advising, and Community Service Presented at Honors Convocation
2015 Eric Lacroix Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2022 Lexi Ferrini, Allison Lambert, Donovan Robilard Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences

“Copula Modeling: “An Application to Workers' Compensation Claims”

Advisors: Jon Abraham, Barry Posterro

2020 Colleges Against Cancer Organization of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Student Group
2015 Sarun Paisarnsrisomsuk Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2008 Christopher Bartley Denise Nicoletti Trustees' Award for Service to Community Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Physical Education, Recreation & Athletics

Read the citation: 2008 Denise Nicoletti Trustees Award

2005 Jeanine D. Plummer Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Academic Advising Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering

Read the citation: 2005 Academic Advising Award

2006 H. J. Manzari Romeo L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Humanities & Arts

Read the citation: 2006 Romeo Award

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