Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Awarded by Type Department Details
2003 Steven C. Bullock Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Humanities & Arts

Read the citation: 2003 Outstanding Research Award

2008 David S. Adams Chair's Exemplary Faculty Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Biology & Biotechnology

Two Outstanding WPI Faculty Members Receive Chairman's Exemplary Faculty Prizes at Commencement

2007 William D. Cunningham '77 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2018 Virginia Nunez Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
2008 Seth A. Popinchalk '98 John Boynton Young Alumni Award for Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2020 Stephanie Salerno and Jacquelyn Valsamis Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Environmental Engineering

An Environmental Analysis of Recreational Cannabis Cultivation and Processing

2021 David Ortendahl Advisor of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Phi Gamma Delta and Vox

2017 Nicholas Cyganski, Benjamin Gillette, Killian Henson, Keshuai Xu Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"The Autonomous Cargo Aircraft Project (ACAP)."

Advisors: Profs. Michael Ciaraldi, Fred Looft

2021 Gregory Fischer Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty

https://www.wpi.edu/library/archives-special-collections/history/awards/board-trustees-award-outstanding-research-creative-scholarship

2019 Mbolle Akume
2014 Gary Goshgarian '64 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Read the citation: 2014 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award, Gary Goshgarian

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 Alex Hyman Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2009 Elizabeth Gould Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics

"Proofs of the Kochen-Specker Theorem in 3 Dimensions"

Advisor: P.K. Aravind

2014 Mark O'Neil '80 Innovator of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Alumni
2012 Thomas Eisenbarth National Science Foundation CAREER Award National Science Foundation Faculty Electrical & Computer Engineering
2022 Ben Gobler Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences

“The Calkin-Wilf Tree; Extensions and Applications”

Advisors: Brigitte Servatius, Herman Servatius

2015 Diana Lados Sigma Xi Outstanding Senior Faculty Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Mechanical & Materials Engineering
1988 Patrick P. Dunn Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Humanities & Arts
1990 L. Ramdas Ram-Mohan Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Physics
2016 Lindsay Lozeau i3: Investing in Ideas with Impact Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Chemical Engineering

Advisor: Terri A. Camesano;  "AMProtection: Tomorrow’s Antimicrobials Fighting Today’s Infections"

People's Choice Award

2008 Chrysanthe Demetry '88 Ichabod Washburn Young Alumni Award for Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2006 Richard C. Liebich ‘66 Edwin “Ted” Coghlin Jr. ’56 Humanitarian Leadership Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Alumni
2020 James Andon, Katherine Vasconcelos Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

BaNCE: A Simplified Model for in vivo Non-Continuous Evolution

2010 Sang Ki Lee '60 Alumni
2021 Khadijah Ibrahim Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2019 Erica Davis Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

"Autoimmune Antibodies in Multiple Sclerosis."

Advisor: Destin Heilman

 

2011 Joseph E. Laptewicz, Jr. '71 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2020 Mbolle Akume Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2015 CDR Joseph E. Santos '95 Ichabod Washburn Young Alumni Award for Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Read the citation: 2015 Ichabod Washburn Young Alumni Award, CDR Joseph E. Santos

2022 Society of Women Engineers Organization of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Lance E. Schachterle Institution of Electrical Engineering (UK), Fellow/Companion Institution of Electrical Engineering (UK) Faculty
2017 Brandon King Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2008 Daniel Capozzo, Robert Groezinger, Keet-Fung (Frankie) Ng, Marisa Siegel Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Manufacturing Engineering

"Generation Y, Baby Boomers and Web Design: Usability Through Eye Tracking"

Advisor: Soussan Djamasbi

Ozge Yasar, PhD Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2003 Terri Camesano National Science Foundation CAREER Award National Science Foundation Faculty Chemical Engineering
2023 Claire Behning, Amanda Holbrook Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Social Science & Policy Studies, Psychological Science

"Exploring the Effect of CBD on C. elegans with 6-OHDA-induced Parkinson's Disease to Determine Potential Therapeutic Effects "
Advisors: Michael Buckholt, James Doyle, Jill Rulfs, Suzanne Scarlata, Jagan Srinivasan

2016 Ermal Toto, PhD Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Computer Science
1971 Kenneth E. Scott Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2012 Ellen Madigan Newman John Boynton Young Alumni Award for Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2016 Hongii Yu Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics

"Dynamics of Atomtronic Battery"

Advisors: Burt Tilley, Alex Zozulya

2018 Terri Camesano Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty Chemical Engineering

France

WPI Professors Receive Fulbright Scholarships

2010 Mark O'Neil '80 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2019 Sharon Johnson Chair's Exemplary Faculty Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty

Excellence in Teaching, Research, Advising, and Community Service Recognized at Honors Convocation

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2021 Connor Bruneau, Hunter Caouette, Rimsha Kayastha, Veronica Melican, Miranda Hernandez-Reisch Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Data Science

Machine Learning for Mental Health Screening

2012 James P Dunn '67 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Read the citation: 2012 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award, James P Dunn

2019 Jessica Locke Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2016 Kevin S Ackerman Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2022 Alexse LaGuerre ‘25
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