Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Awarded by Type Department Details
2015 Elizabeth van Zyl Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2018 Abigail Hanson, Joshua Mace, Frederick Metters, Nicole Sherlock Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering

"Design of a Topical Antimicrobial Peptide Delivery Vehicle for the Treatment of Acne Vulgaris."

Advisor: Marsha Rolle

2015 Sakshi Khurana Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2018 Reid Billings CARE (Courageous, Aware, Responsible, Exceptional) Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2012 Christine Drew Denise Nicoletti Trustees' Award for Service to Community Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty

Read the citation: 2012 Denise Nicoletti Trustees Award

2012 Awards for Excellence in Teaching, Research, Advising, and Community Service Presented at Honors Convocation
2008 Kristen L. Billiar Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Academic Advising Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Biomedical Engineering

Read the citation: 2008 Academic Advising Award

2017 Toni Joy
2011 Taskin Padir Romeo L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Electrical & Computer Engineering

Read the citation: 2011 Romeo Award

2007 Kerri George (Biochemistry) Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

"The Effects of Ajulemic Acid on Osteoclast Differentiation"

Advisor: Jill Rulfs

2015 Michael Derryberry, Jermiah McCarthy Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering

"FPGA Real-Time Stoplight Detection"

Advisor: Xinming Huang

2017 Rebecca L Burns Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Psychological Science
2021 Catherine M. Hogan Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics

Computational Characterization of a Millimeter-Wave Heat Exchanger with AlN:Mo Cylindrical Susceptors

2020 Yanhua Li National Science Foundation CAREER Award National Science Foundation Faculty Computer Science
2009 Michael G. Bruce '94 Ichabod Washburn Young Alumni Award for Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2015 Jennifer Cluett Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Staff Member Worcester Polytechnic Institute Staff Undergraduate Admissions
2023 Amity Manning Sigma Xi Outstanding Junior Faculty Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Biology & Biotechnology
2018 Cielo Sharkus 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

2016 Kelly Beisswanger Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2017 Ming Luo Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2015 Veronica Rivero Gorrin Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2019 Michael Brooks Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2008 Peter Christopher Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Mathematical Sciences

Read the citation: 2008 Outstanding Teaching Award

2008 Joel J. Brattin Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Humanities & Arts

Read the citation: 2008 Outstanding Research Award

2009 David Munger Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering

"The Use of Photoresist Derived Carbon as Microelectrodes for Genetic Assays"

Advisor: Susan Zhou

2013 David Cyganski Chair's Exemplary Faculty Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Electrical & Computer Engineering

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

2017 Lifelong Learning Chambers Program of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Phi Sigma Sigma

2007 William W. Rawstron '57 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2017 Natalie S Wellen Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences
2018 Christine Schondek Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2018 Takayoshi Tsutsu Student Employee of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2017 Zachary Ligham Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2022 Adraesteia Wong Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Humanities & Arts

“Never Set in Stone: The Creative Process in Transformative Fiction”   

Advisor: Kate McIntyre

2011 Warner S. Fletcher WPI Award for Distinguished Service WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2019 Samantha Lor Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2016 Michael E. Grilli '66 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2015 Hajar Jafferji Fulbright U.S. Student Award Fulbright U.S. Student Program Graduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering

Morocco

WPI Doctoral Student Receives Fulbright Scholarship to Help Restore Historic City of Fès in Morocco
2019 Raghvendra V. Cowlagi Romeo L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical & Materials Engineering

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

Read the citation: 2019 Romeo L. Moruzzi Award

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2015 A. Laurence Jones III Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2012 Sarah Strauss Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty Integrative & Global Studies

India

2015 Lina Tran Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2019 Stephanie Pasha Advisor of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Pep Band

2016 Samanatha Swartz Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Computer Science

Outstanding Major Qualifying Project

1991 Robert Long II Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Physics
1993 Wesley T. Mott Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Humanities & Arts
2009 Elisabeth Beinke, Keilin Bickar, Joshua Doyle, Alexander Schwartz Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Interactive Media & Game Development

"Memory Dash - a Multiplayer iPhone Game"

Advisor: David Finkel

2015 Mingrui Wei i3: Investing in Ideas with Impact Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Computer Science

Best Presentation

2007 Nate Piper Student Employee of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Undergraduate Admissions
2008 Stephan A. Mezak '78 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2020 Mbolle Akume Edwin Coghlin ’23 Award for Community Service Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

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