Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Awarded by Type Department Details
2008 Matthew J. Friend '93 John Boynton Young Alumni Award for Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2016 Abigail Ismail Undergraduate
2018 Jordan Burklund, Hans Johnson, Travis Norris, Liam Shanahan Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Robotics Engineering

"SailBot 2017-18."
Advisors: Prof. Kenneth Stafford, William Michalson

2016 Lindsay Gurska
2019 Lambda Chi Alpha and Phi Sigma Sigma Edwin Coghlin ’23 Award for Community Service Worcester Polytechnic Institute Student Group

Friendly House

2016 Haize Galarraga Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Materials Science & Engineering

Outstanding Master's Thesis

2013 Steven C. Halstedt '68 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Read the citation: 2013 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award, Steven C. Halstedt

1990 David S. Adams Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Biology & Biotechnology
1992 George D. J. Phillies Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Physics
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

2015 Heather Cirka i3: Investing in Ideas with Impact Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Biomedical Engineering

Best Concept

2003 Nikolaos Kazantzis National Science Foundation CAREER Award National Science Foundation Faculty Chemical Engineering
2008 Helen G. Vassallo '82 William R. Grogan Award for Support of the Mission of WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2018 Margarite Vaccaro Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2021 Robbie Starr CARE (Courageous, Aware, Responsible, Exceptional) Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2021 Connor Anderson, Achu Balasubramanian, Henry Poskanzer Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science

Studying and Visualizing Contagion on Graphs

2016 Rhonda Podell Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Staff Member Worcester Polytechnic Institute Staff Mathematical Sciences
2018 Faith Kurtz Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2016 Caroline Mazzola Emerging Leader of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Kaveh Pahlavan Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Faculty
2009 Robert H. Mason '94 Ichabod Washburn Young Alumni Award for Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2016 Celeste Marsan Undergraduate
2017 Joe Stabile Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty
2016 Niamh Fennessy Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2019 Peter DiPersio Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2016 Heather Cirka Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Fellowship Graduate Biomedical Engineering
2015 Michael J. Aghajanian '80 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Read the citation: 2015 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award, Michael J. Aghajanian

1975 Romeo L. Moruzzi Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Electrical & Computer Engineering
2017 Elizabeth Desjardins Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2013 Helen Vassallo Alumni
2008 Briana Morey, Ravi Vasudevan Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering

"100W Class D Audio Amplifier"

Advisors: John McNeil, Andrew Klein

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

1997 John McNeill National Science Foundation CAREER Award National Science Foundation Faculty Electrical & Computer Engineering
2020 Nicolas Amato, Zachary Huaman, Alicea Hyland, Jacob Koslow, Jordan Pickunka, Jack Procaccini, Saiyab Ranjit, William Roe, Jarod Romankiw, David Santamaria, Jake Scarponi, Braden St. Jacques, Jake Tappen Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering

Design, Analysis, and Test of a High-Powered Model Rocket

2020 Tiffiny A Butler Denise Nicoletti Trustees' Award for Service to Community Worcester Polytechnic Institute Staff Division of Talent & Inclusion

2020 Excellence in Teaching, Research, Advising, and Community Service Recognized at Honors Convocation

2021 Kyla Egenberger Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2017 John Kelly Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Read the citation: 2017 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award, John Kelly

2022 George Heineman Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Computer Science
2018 Patrick Bresnahan Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2017 Angelina Maria Nicolella Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2019 Rosa Reynoso Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2016 Dirk Albrecht Romeo L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Biomedical Engineering

Read the citation: 2016 Romeo L. Moruzzi Award

2016 Awards for Excellence in Teaching, Research, Advising, and Community Service Presented at Honors Convocation
2016 Jon Abraham Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Academic Advising Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Mathematical Sciences

 

 

 

2016 Awards for Excellence in Teaching, Research, Advising, and Community Service Presented at Honors Convocation
2015 Eric Lacroix Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2020 Colleges Against Cancer Organization of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Student Group
2015 Sarun Paisarnsrisomsuk Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2012 William A Krein '62 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Read the citation: 2012 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award, William A Krein

2008 Christopher Bartley Denise Nicoletti Trustees' Award for Service to Community Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Physical Education, Recreation & Athletics

Read the citation: 2008 Denise Nicoletti Trustees Award

2003 Richard Ballard, Andrew Fowler, Colin Joyce, Jason Myatt President's IQP Awards Undergraduate

"Sustainable Development Mini-Guides"

Advisor: Hossein Hakim

2016 Richard M. Hooker WPI Award for Distinguished Service WPI Alumni Association Alumni