Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Awarded by Type Department Details
2011 Ramdas Ram-Mohan Chair's Exemplary Faculty Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Physics

Ramdas Ram-Mohan Receives WPI's 2011 Chairman's Exemplary Faculty Prize at Commencement

2007 Curtis R. Carlson '67 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2013 Steven C. Halstedt '68 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni

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2019 Rosie McCarthy Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2016 Rhonda Podell Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Staff Member Worcester Polytechnic Institute Staff Mathematical Sciences
2021 Luigi Apollon, Kathryn Nippert, Emily Stead Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Psychological Science

Selegiline: The Effects of Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors on the Behavior and Physiology of Caenorhabditis Elegans

2018 Faith Kurtz Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
1984 Elke Rudensteiner Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty Computer Science

USA/Germany

2021 Jacob Whitehill National Science Foundation CAREER Award National Science Foundation Faculty Computer Science
2016 Abigail Ismail Undergraduate
2009 Daniel W. Carney Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

"Singlet Oxygen Trapping Porphyrins"

Advisor: Robert E. Connors

2017 Joe Stabile Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty
2016 Lindsay Gurska
2023 Devon Poisson Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2019 Peter DiPersio Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2016 Haize Galarraga Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Materials Science & Engineering

Outstanding Master's Thesis

1990 David S. Adams Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Biology & Biotechnology
2009 Robert H. Mason '94 Ichabod Washburn Young Alumni Award for Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
1992 George D. J. Phillies Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Physics
2015 Heather Cirka i3: Investing in Ideas with Impact Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Biomedical Engineering

Best Concept

2008 Helen G. Vassallo '82 William R. Grogan Award for Support of the Mission of WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2015 Michael J. Aghajanian '80 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni

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2017 James Mayer Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Read the citation: 2017 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award, James Mayer

2018 Margarite Vaccaro Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2018 Elizabeth Towle Student Employee of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Information Technology Services
2021 Robbie Starr CARE (Courageous, Aware, Responsible, Exceptional) Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2017 Abigail Elizabeth King Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2021 Connor Anderson, Achu Balasubramanian, Henry Poskanzer Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science

Studying and Visualizing Contagion on Graphs

2019 Erika Miyajima Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2016 Caroline Mazzola Emerging Leader of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2019 Sarah Wodin-Schwartz Romeo L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Mechanical & Materials Engineering

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

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Kaveh Pahlavan Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Faculty
2005 Joseph A. Doiron Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty Integrative & Global Studies

Albania

2016 Celeste Marsan Undergraduate
2009 Samantha G. McGill Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Manufacturing Engineering

"Market and Business Analysis of Microthreads"

Advisors: Helen Vassallo, George Pins

2019 Hate Has No Place Here Diversity Program of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Hillel

2016 Niamh Fennessy Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2003 Nikolaos Kazantzis National Science Foundation CAREER Award National Science Foundation Faculty Chemical Engineering
2022 Clarissa Casilla Luzardo, Hannah Gelman, Alejandro Gerov Armas, Abigail Perlee Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Industrial Engineering

“WPI Dining Services Delivery Plan”

Advisor: Sara Saberi

2016 Heather Cirka Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Fellowship Graduate Biomedical Engineering
1975 Romeo L. Moruzzi Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Electrical & Computer Engineering
2013 Helen Vassallo Alumni
2016 Robert Antoine, Michael Bowen, Grace Howard Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Environmental Engineering

"Reducing Phosphorous Contamination in Stormwater Runoff"

Advisors: Fred Hart, Suzanne LePage

2011 Father Peter Scanlon Goat's Head Award for Lifetime Commitment to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2016 Stuart C. Kazin '61 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2009 Diran S. Apelian Chair's Exemplary Faculty Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2020 Catherine Sherman Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Bioinformatics & Computational Biology

Moss Fungal Interactions

2020 Carlo Pinciroli Romeo L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty

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2018 Tyler McNeill Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2021 Samantha Grillo Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate