Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
Balgobin Nandram American Statistical Association Fellow American Statistical Association Faculty
Nancy Bunham AVS, the Science and Technology Society Fellow American Vacuum Society (Science and Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and Processing) Faculty
Charles Rich Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Fellow Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Faculty
2013 Nouran Abdelfattah Gates Cambridge Scholarship Winner Cambridge University Graduate Biology & Biotechnology, Chemistry & Biochemistry

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.

2015 Scott Jiusto Professor of the Year (Massachusetts) Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Faculty
2012 Sarah Strauss Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty Integrative & Global Studies

India

2000 Kaveh Pahlavan Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty Electrical & Computer Engineering

Finland

2003 Mikail Dimentberg Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty Mechanical & Materials Engineering

Germany

Two Worcester Polytechnic Institute Professors Awarded Fulbright Scholarships
2005 Joseph A. Doiron Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty Integrative & Global Studies

Albania

1984 Elke Rudensteiner Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty Computer Science

USA/Germany

2017 Peter H. Hansen Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty Humanities & Arts

France

Peter H. Hansen Receives Fulbright IEA Grant

2016 Brian Meacham Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty Fire Protection Engineering

Sweden, Spain, Japan 

Inaugural Fulbright Global Scholar

1998 Konstantin A. Lurie Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty Mathematical Sciences

Denmark

Fulbright Scholar Grant Awarded to WPI Professor
2016 Luis Vidali Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty Biology & Biotechnology

Spain

2018 Sarah Olson Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty Mathematical Sciences

Hungary

WPI Professors Receive Fulbright Scholarships

2014 Rajib Mallick Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering

Sri Lanka

2018 Terri Camesano Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty Chemical Engineering

France

WPI Professors Receive Fulbright Scholarships

2013 Steven Taylor Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty

New Zealand

2009 Kristen L. Billiar Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty Biomedical Engineering

Ireland

WPI Professor Receives Fulbright Scholarship to Conduct Research on Tissue Engineering in Ireland
2000 Steven C. Bullock Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty Humanities & Arts

Japan

WPI History Professor Will Teach in Japan as a Fulbright Scholar
2009 Thomas B. Robertson Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty Humanities & Arts

Nepal

New Fulbright Scholars from WPI Are Addressing Rural Development in Nepal and Risk Communication in Thailand
2020 Michael Timko Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty Chemical Engineering

France

WPI Professor Receives Fulbright Scholar Award to Conduct Research on Biofuels in France

2011 William San Martin Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty Humanities & Arts

USA/Chile

2013 Michael Elmes Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty

Netherlands

WPI Business Professor Michael Elmes Receives a Second Fulbright Scholar Award
2019 Jennifer McWeeny Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty Humanities & Arts

France

Worcester Polytechnic Institute Humanities & Arts Professor Awarded Fulbright Scholarship   

 

2006 Holger Droessler Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty Humanities & Arts

USA/Germany

2004 Michael Elmes Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty

New Zealand

2017 Crystal H. Brown Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty Social Science & Policy Studies

Denmark and Sweden



Exploring Diversity in Scandinavia

2013 Steven Taylor Fulbright Specialist Fulbright Program Faculty
2007 Aaron Sakulich Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering

Morocco

2009 Seth P. Tuler Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty Social Science & Policy Studies

Thailand

New Fulbright Scholars from WPI Are Addressing Rural Development in Nepal and Risk Communication in Thailand
2012 Carrick Eggleston Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering

India

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 Claire Dickson-Burke Fulbright U.S. Student Award Fulbright U.S. Student Program Graduate Biology & Biotechnology

Germany 

2008 Virginia Ward Fulbright U.S. Student Award Fulbright U.S. Student Program Graduate International & Global Studies

Taiwan

1983 Marion S. Keeler Truman Scholarship Winner Harry S. Truman Foundation Undergraduate
William J. Martin Institute for Combinatorics and its Applications Fellow Institute for Combinatorics and its Applications Faculty
John Orr Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Faculty
Kaveh Pahlavan Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Faculty
Alexander E. Emanuel Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Faculty
Lance E. Schachterle Institution of Electrical Engineering (UK), Fellow/Companion Institution of Electrical Engineering (UK) Faculty
P. K. Aravind Institute of Physics (UK) Fellow Institution of Electrical Engineering (UK) Faculty
2015 Glenn Gaudette KEEN Outstanding Faculty Award Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN) Faculty
2004 Ian C. Bonzani Marshall Scholarship Winner Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission Biomedical Engineering
2003 Nicholas T. Baker Marshall Scholarship Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission Computer Science, Humanities & Arts
Diran Apelian Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS) Fellow Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society Faculty
2016 Arthur Heinricher Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation In Engineering & Technology Education National Academy of Engineering Faculty
2016 Kristin Wobbe Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation In Engineering & Technology Education National Academy of Engineering Faculty
2016 Diran Apelian Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation In Engineering & Technology Education National Academy of Engineering Faculty
2016 Richard Vaz Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation In Engineering & Technology Education National Academy of Engineering Faculty