Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Awarded by Type Department Details
2005 Robert Norton Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Mechanical & Materials Engineering

Read the citation: 2005 Outstanding Teaching Award

2005 Homer Walker Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Mathematical Sciences

Read the citation: 2005 Outstanding Research Award

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 Yi Hua (Ed) Ma Chair's Exemplary Faculty Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Chemical Engineering

Yi Hua (Ed) Ma Receives WPI's 2012 Chairman's Exemplary Faculty Prize at Commencement

2019 Michael Cooke, Thomas Kouttron Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering

"Recreating Steam Power at WPI."

Advisor: Robert Daniello

2007 Joseph L. Ferrantino '67 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2019 Panhellenic Council Edwin Coghlin ’23 Award for Community Service Worcester Polytechnic Institute Student Group

Elm Park Community School

2019 Chisom Okafor Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2021 Mia Buccowich, Andrew Strauss Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Partial Hand Prosthetic

2021 Kun-Ta Wu National Science Foundation CAREER Award National Science Foundation Faculty Physics
2009 Warren D. Smale '94 John Boynton Young Alumni Award for Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2017 Lisa Wall Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Staff Member Worcester Polytechnic Institute Staff Biomedical Engineering
2015 Luke Habib Emerging Leader of the Year 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

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

Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation

2018 Irene Wong Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2015 A. Laurence Jones III '75 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Read the citation: 2015 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award, A. Laurence Jones III

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
2009 Matthew Dailey, Ilan Shomorony Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences

"Physically Unclonable Functions"

Advisors: William Martin, Berk Sunar

2015 Morteza Khaleghi i3: Investing in Ideas with Impact Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering

Overall People's Choice

2017 Daniel Shrives Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2009 Marc Balboa, Ivo Dobrev, Ryan Fosset Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering

"MEMS for Real Time Imaging Applications"

Advisor: Cosme Furlong-Vazquez

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"

Best Overall

1997 Fabio Ribeiro National Science Foundation CAREER Award National Science Foundation Faculty
2008 James M. Welch '83 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2019 Toni Joy Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2018 Adrienne Weishaar Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2020 Samantha Lor, Megan Olson, Hannah Goddard, and Laura Boccio Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering

Wildlife Crossing Development for Highway 1 in Batipa, Panama

2021 Jeannine Coburn Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Academic Advising Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Biomedical Engineering

2021 Annual Trustees' Awards Hhonor Faculty and Staff for Excellence in Teaching, Advising, and Research

2017 Douglas Klauber William R. Grogan Award for Support of the Mission of WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Read the citation: 2017 William R. Grogan Award

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
2015 Christopher Hango Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Humanities & Arts

"The Five Stages of Grief: A Composition and Performance for Brass Ensemble"

Advisor: Douglas Weeks

2018 Jordan Burklund Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2015 Nidhi Diwakar
2018 Amanda Toledo Barrios Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2022 Christopher Guerrette, Natalie Mohn Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate The Business School

“Development of a Cloud-Based Enterprise Resource Planning System for Gompei’s Goat Cheese”

Advisors: Jim Ryan

2012 David P Norton '62 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Read the citation: 2012 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award, David P Norton

2016 Stephen E. Rubin '74 Goat's Head Award for Lifetime Commitment to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
1973 James Hensel Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Humanities & Arts
2017 Luke Habib Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2014 Joseph S. Klimek John Boynton Young Alumni Award for Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2008 Sanouri (Fernando) Ursprung Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Humanities & Arts

"Battling Malaria: A History of International Health Aid"

Advisors: William A.B. Addison, Peter Hansen

2016 Laura Antul Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences

"Calibration of an Optimal Bidding Model for the Mobile Advertisement Markets"

Advisor: Marcel Blais, Stephan Sturm 

2019 Colleges Against Cancer Organization of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Student Group
2005 Donald Brown National Science Foundation CAREER Award National Science Foundation Faculty Electrical & Computer Engineering
2020 Urmila Mallick Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology

Social Integration: Feasibility of Free-Ranging Dogs for Animal: Welfare, Public Health, and Conservation Benefits.

2020 Elisabeth Ann Stoddard Romeo L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Office of the Provost, Social Science & Policy Studies

Read the citation: 2020 Romeo L. Moruzzi Award

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2021 Elizabeth van Zyl Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2016 Gaetano J. Scuderi Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering