Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2019 Kyle Foley, Walker Christie, Michael Kola and Natasha Honcharik President's IQP Awards Winner Undergraduate

A Mobile Application for Locating Treatment and Support

WPI Advisors: Thomas Balistrieri

2021 Elaine Chen (CS), Ruchita Y. Choksey (ME), Danielle D. Upton (CME), Casey J. Willis (ME) President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

Akyem Dwenase Sanitation

Advisor:  Robert Krueger

2022 Megan Cyr, Tovah Lockwood, Alyssa Magaha, Anne McNamara President's IQP Awards Winner Undergraduate

Restoring Mrigadayavan Palace

Advisors: Holly Ault and Stephan Sturm

2016 Allysa Grant Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2014 Sawin Areepipatkul, Marc Gelin, Nathan Longnecker, Phornphit Manageracharath, Laura Pumphrey, Corre Steele, Nontach Thanawatyanyong President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

"Development and Initiation of Sustainable Wastewater Management in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand"

Advisors: Creighton Peet, Gary Pollice, Patchanita Thamyongkit (Chulalongkorn University Advisor)

2004 Krista Backiel, Andrew Day, Jaime Grouf, and Dimitri Stancioff President's IQP Awards Third Place Undergraduate

"Noise Monitoring in San Juan, Puerto Rico"

Advisors: Bland Addison and Tahar El-Korchi

2007 Jason P. Frey, Ryan S. Kendrick, Jodi M. Lowell, John M. Rothermel President's IQP Awards First Place Undergraduate

"Energy Profiling for Off-Grid Energization Solutions in Namibia"

Advisors: Robert Krueger & Fred Looft

2010 Chelsea C. Sheehan, Heidi P. Robertson President's IQP Awards First Place Undergraduate

"Evaluating ‘Business Opportunities with Solar Energy in Un-Electrified Areas’ in Namibia"

Advisors:  R. Ludwig and S. Nikitina

2015 Alexander Emanuel Academy of Technical Sciences of Romania Honorary Member Academy of Technical Sciences of Romania Faculty
2009 David Adams American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science Faculty Biology & Biotechnology
Yi Hua (Ed) Ma American Institute of Chemical Engineers Fellow American Institute of Chemical Engineers Faculty
L. R. Ram-Mohan American Physical Society Fellow American Physical Society Faculty
Diran Apelian APMI International (Powder Metallurgy) Fellow American Powder Metallurgy Institute International Faculty
David DiBiasio American Society for Engineering Education Fellow American Society for Engineering Education Faculty
John Orr American Society for Engineering Education Fellow American Society for Engineering Education Faculty
Richard J. Sisson American Society for Metals Fellow American Society for Metals Faculty
Diran Apelian American Society for Metals Fellow American Society for Metals Faculty
Robert L. Norton American Society of Mechanical Engineers Fellow American Society of Mechanical Engineers Faculty
Yiming (Kevin) Rong American Society of Mechanical Engineers Fellow American Society of Mechanical Engineers Faculty
Allen H. Hoffman American Society of Mechanical Engineers Fellow American Society of Mechanical Engineers Faculty
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

2005 Joseph A. Doiron Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty Integrative & Global Studies

Albania

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
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

2018 Sarah Olson Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty Mathematical Sciences

Hungary

WPI Professors Receive Fulbright Scholarships

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 Terri Camesano Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty Chemical Engineering

France

WPI Professors Receive Fulbright Scholarships

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

Sri Lanka

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

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

2013 Michael Elmes Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty

Netherlands

WPI Business Professor Michael Elmes Receives a Second Fulbright Scholar Award
2017 Crystal H. Brown Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty Social Science & Policy Studies

Denmark and Sweden

Exploring Diversity in Scandinavia

2004 Michael Elmes Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty

New Zealand

2012 Carrick Eggleston Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering

India

2013 Steven Taylor Fulbright Specialist Fulbright Program Faculty