Mark Richman

Secretary of the Faculty Mark Richman speaks at WPI's 2023 Faculty Honors Convocation.

2023 Annual Awards Honor WPI Faculty and Staff

May 2, 2023
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Matt Burgos

Members of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute faculty and staff were honored for their achievements and service to the university at the April 28 annual Faculty Honors Convocation at the Rubin Campus Center.

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Elizabeth Ryder

Elizabeth Ryder

 

Elizabeth Ryder, professor in the Department of Biology and Biotechnology, received the Chair's Exemplary Faculty Prize, which recognizes faculty members who excel at teaching, research, scholarship, and student advising. Read the award citation here.

 

 

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Jon Abraham

Jon Abraham

 

Jon Abraham, professor of practice in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, received the Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Teaching. The award recognizes faculty members who have demonstrated excellence in teaching coupled with outstanding professional contributions. Read the award citation here.

 

 

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Stephen Kmiotek

Stephen Kmiotek

 

Stephen Kmiotek, professor of practice in the Department of Chemical Engineering, received the Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Academic Advising. The award honors faculty members for the role they play in guiding and mentoring students. Read the award citation here.

 

 

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Kate Beverage

Kate Beverage

Kate Beverage, director of Technology for Teaching and Learning in the Academic Technology Center, 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. Read the award citation here.

 

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Jeanine Skorinko

Jeanine Skorinko

Jeanine Skorinko
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Frederick Bianchi

Frederick Bianchi

Frederick Bianchi

Jeanine Skorinko and Frederick Bianchi received the Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Scholarship. Skorinko is a professor in the Department of Social Science and Policy Studies. Read her award citation here. Bianchi is a professor in the Department of Humanities and Arts. The award honors outstanding teaching, research and creative scholarship, academic advising, and service to the community. Read his award citation here.

 

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Angela Rodriguez

Angela Rodriguez

Angela Rodriguez
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Rebecca Moody

Rebecca Moody

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Lindsay Greer Davis

Lindsay Greer Davis

Angela Rodriguez, Rebecca Moody and Lindsay Greer Davis received Romeo L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Awards for Innovation in Undergraduate Education. The award is named for Romeo L. Moruzzi, who was a professor of electrical engineering and a founder of the WPI Plan. Honorees are early-career faculty members who are recognized for specific innovations or improvements to undergraduate education at WPI. Rodriguez is an assistant professor in the Department of Social Science and Policy Studies. Read her award citation here. In the Department of Humanities and Arts, Moody is an assistant teaching professor and Davis is an assistant professor of teaching. Read their award citation here.

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Elizabeth Ryder
Elizabeth Ryder

I have a long-standing interest in applying computer science and mathematics to solve biological problems. I am currently the Associate Director of WPI’s Program in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, and I am always looking for students with interests in this exciting interdisciplinary area. One of my goals in teaching biology is to help students to think more quantitatively about biological questions. A few years ago, my colleague Dr. Brian White of UMass Boston and I were awarded a grant from the NSF to develop a course, “Simulation in Biology”.

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Jon Abraham
Jon Abraham
Professor of Practice, Mathematical Sciences

Teaching has evolved into a second career for me. After working for over 25 years as an actuary, I came to WPI a few years back, and have loved every minute of it! I provide insight to my students about working as an actuary, as well as convey a real world sense of urgency and connection to what we are doing in the classroom. I particularly enjoy the academic cycle – getting a fresh start every fall term, and seeing a new batch of enthusiastic first year students arriving on campus.

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Stephen Kmiotek
Stephen Kmiotek
Professor of Practice, Chemical Engineering

As a Professor of Practice, my focus is to bring my 30 years of experience in the chemical and environmental industries to the undergraduate classes.  My focus through most of my career has been on Chemical Process Safety, Environmental, Health and Safety, and, Air Pollution Engineering.  These fields draw on virtually every part of chemical engineering, including transport phenomena, thermodynamics, and reaction kinetics.  They also draw very heavily on legal documents, particularly governmental regulations and technical design standards, so I have often worked in multidisci

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Jeanine Skorinko
Jeanine Skorinko

Jeanine Skorinko is a professor of psychology at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the Department of Social Science and Policy Studies. She also is the director of the Psychological & Cognitive Science program. She received her PhD in social psychology at the University of Virginia.

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Frederick Bianchi
Frederick Bianchi

Professor Frederick Bianchi works in the area of music technology. As the director of music technology research, Bianchi works with students from all disciplines. His particular focus is Virtual Orchestra technology, multichannel sound design, and neuroscience research. In addition to overseeing the Media Arts Group Innovation Center (MAGIC), Professor Bianchi is also the director of the Bar Harbor, Maine Project Center and the Glacier National Park Project Center.

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Angela Incollingo Rodriguez
Angela Incollingo Rodriguez
Assistant Professor, Social Science & Policy Studies

Angela Incollingo Rodriguez is an assistant professor of Psychological & Cognitive Sciences and Neuroscience. She directs the Stigma Eating & Endocrinology Dynamics (SEED) Lab and collaborates on interdisciplinary research initiatives throughout WPI and around the globe.

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Rebecca Moody
Rebecca Moody
Assistant Professor of Teaching, Humanities & Arts

My research centers around religion in North Africa and the Middle East with a focus on Islam; I approach the study of Islam through its representation in visual culture. My first book project, an outgrowth of my dissertation, focuses on recent fiction film by Moroccan women filmmakers as oblique forms of resistance to dominant narratives about Muslim women. My research tends to be very interdisciplinary: I draw on religion, cultural studies, feminist theory, film theory and affect theory.

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Lindsay Davis
Lindsay Davis
Assistant Professor of Teaching, Humanities & Arts

Dr. Lindsay Davis is a broadly trained interdisciplinary historian whose research interrogates the gendered, racial, and cultural foundations of the American prison state. Her current book project, "Lessons in Captivity: A Cultural History of Gender and Criminality During the Transitional Carceral Era, 1930-1973," examines the cultural coverage of women prisoners - in "real life" and in film - in an era preceding mass incarceration. In the classroom, Dr.

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