During the month of April, members of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute faculty and staff were honored for their achievements and service to the university. This year’s faculty awards were announced April 29 at the annual Faculty Honors Convocation; staff honors were announced April 12 at an employee town hall.
Michael Elmes, professor in The Business School, was awarded the Chair’s Exemplary Faculty Prize. The prize recognizes faculty members who excel at teaching, research, scholarship, and advising.
George Heineman, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science, received the Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Teaching. The award recognizes faculty members who have demonstrated excellence in teaching coupled with outstanding professional contributions.
Dmitry Korkin, professor in the Department of Computer Science, received the Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Scholarship. The award honors outstanding teaching, research and creative scholarship, academic advising, and service to the community.
Zoe Reidinger, associate teaching professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, received the Denise Nicoletti Trustees’ Award for Service to the Community. The award is named for the first tenure-track female faculty member in WPI’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, who also was co-founder of Camp Reach, a summer engineering and science program for girls.
Alexander Wyglinski, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, received the Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Academic Advising. The award honors faculty members for the role they play in guiding and mentoring students.
Catherine Whittington and Ahmet Can Sabuncu were named recipients of the Romeo L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Award. Whittington is an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Sabuncu is an assistant teaching professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering. The award recognizes innovation in undergraduate education by young faculty members.
Colleen Callahan-Panday, director of International Student Life, and Teresa Geddis, administrative assistant in the Academic Advising Office, were honored with Board of Trustees’ Awards for Outstanding Staff Member.
Offices and Departments
School of Arts & Sciences
Imagine. Innovate. Integrate. Impact.
The School of Arts & Sciences touches every aspect of work at WPI. Woven throughout our disciplines, the seamless interactions between and among the arts and sciences—as well as engineering and business—allows sparks of imagination to come to life through scientific, technological, artistic, and humanistic innovation.
School of Engineering
Theory. Practice. Impact.
At WPI, students are involved in engineering projects and research from the very beginning. Our pioneering project-based learning approach means our undergraduate and graduate students learn in the classroom and then can immediately apply their skills to solve real-world problems.
George Heineman
Associate Professor, Computer Science
Computer programming makes it possible to solve problems that otherwise could never be attempted. You can create worlds that could never be possible and help make this world a better place. Most of my professional and personal accomplishments were possible directly because of my
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Dmitry Korkin
Professor, Computer Science
My research is interdisciplinary and spans the fields of bioinformatics of complex diseases, computational genomics, systems biology, and biomedical data analytics. We bring expertise in machine learning, data mining, and massive data analytics to study molecular mechanisms under
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Zoe Reidinger
Associate Teaching Professor, Biomedical Engineering
My areas of interest and enthusiasm lie in biomaterial fabrication and tissue engineering. Bringing this enthusiasm to the classroom is easy with WPI’s focus on undergraduate education and project-based learning. My goal as an instructor is to lead students to higher levels of th
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Alexander Wyglinski
Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Dr. Alexander M. Wyglinski is the Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at WPI since 2021. In this role, Dr. Wyglinski’s activities primarily focus on devising sustainable, scalable, and innovative solutions for enabling individuals to pursue graduate degree programs in support of
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Catherine Whittington
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
My research focuses on combining bio-instructive biomaterials with cells to design 3D tissue-engineered platforms for regenerative medicine, disease modeling, improved predictability of therapeutic outcomes, and as translatable technologies for clinic and industry. Projects aim t
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Ahmet Sabuncu
Assistant Professor of Teaching, Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Dr. Sabuncu holds a Ph. D. in Aerospace Engineering from Old Dominion University. Dr. Sabuncu’s professional interests is thermo-fluids engineering including microfluidic applications. He is also interested in dielectric spectroscopy of cells and tissues since 2009. His research
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Colleen Callahan-Panday
Director, International Students and Scholars,
International House
Teresa Geddis
Executive Assistant, Academic Advising Office
Teresa D. Geddis
Executive Assistant
Email: tgeddis@wpi.edu
Phone
+1 (508) 8315000 x5923
Department :
Academic Advising Office
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