Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2017 Naveen Selvadurai Ichabod Washburn Young Alumni Award for Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Read the citation: 2017 Ichabod Washburn Young Alumni Award, Naveen Selvadurai
2017 Lubna Hassan Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering

Outstanding Major Qualifying Project
2017 Mitchell Muller Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2017 Seth Adjer Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Computer Science
2017 Mark Lawrence Strauss Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Second Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Materials Science & Engineering
2017 Nick Bograd, Brett Carbonneau, Alexander Krasa, Benjamin Preston President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

"Northborough Composting: A Peri-Urban Land Conflict"

Advisors: Corey Denenberg Dehner and Derren Rosbach
2017 Huilin Yang National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Chemical Engineering at WPI
2017 Shanel Chisholm Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2017 Alexander Taglieri Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Peer Learning Assistant, Robotics Engineering
2017 Society of Women Engineers Organization of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Student Group
2017 Casey Broslawski Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2017 Yuchen Wang Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
2017 Zhiqiang Tan Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Read the citation: 2017 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award, Zhiqiang Tan
2017 Kyla Nichols Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering

Outstanding Major Qualifying Project
2017 Shaowei Gong Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Data Science
2017 Ahmedul Kabir Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Computer Science
2017 Maksim V. Tyufekchiev Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Second Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Chemical Engineering
2017 Alex Legere, Anthony Perullo, Amy Toscano, Justin Waters President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

"Stormwater Management Educational Materials for Central Massachusetts Municipalities"

Advisors: Corey Denenberg Dehner and Purvi Shah
2017 Griffin Bishop Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science

Peer Tutor, Academic Resources Center
2017 Corey Allan Richards National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Photonic Materials at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2017 Elizabeth Coffey Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2017 Sara Fitzpatrick
2017 Haunted Higgins House Program of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Student Alumni Society
2017 Caitlin Sara Burner Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2017 Jessica Wedell Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2017 Myles Walton Ichabod Washburn Young Alumni Award for Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Read the citation: 2017 Ichabod Washburn Young Alumni Award, Myles Walton
2017 Allison Paquin Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical & Materials Engineering

Outstanding Major Qualifying Project
2017 Neehar Mukra Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Data Science
2017 Christopher Chagnon Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2017 Payam Razavi Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Third Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Manufacturing Engineering
2017 Hope Shevchuk Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
2017 Kyumin Lee National Science Foundation CAREER Award National Science Foundation Faculty Computer Science
2017 Charles Lovering Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science

Student Assistant, Computer Science
2017 Ben Pulver National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Biomedical Engineering at WPI
2017 Whitney Davis Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2017 Toni Joy
2017 Lifelong Learning Chambers Program of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Phi Sigma Sigma
2017 Rebecca L Burns Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Psychological Science
2017 Natalie S Wellen Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences
2017 Diane Strong Chair's Exemplary Faculty Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty

Diane Strong Receives WPI's 2017 Chairman's Exemplary Faculty Prize
2017 Muping Chen Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Physics

Outstanding Master's Thesis
2017 Zheng Nie Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Data Science
2017 Shari Worthington Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2017 Joel K. Kearns Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Third Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Materials Science & Engineering
2017 Ivon Arroyo National Science Foundation CAREER Award National Science Foundation Faculty Social Science & Policy Studies
2017 Alexander Taglieri Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Computer Science

Peer Learning Assistant, Robotics Engineering
2017 Sarah Kaptur National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Cell Biology at Brown University
2017 Drew DeRubeis Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2017 Jessica Grabinsky
2017 Pedro de Vasoncellos Oporto Charles O. Thompson Scholar Outstanding Member of the Class Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate