Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2011 Ashik Gowdar Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Muted Musing", Advisor: Joseph Farbook
2011 James F. Fee '65 William R. Grogan Award for Support of the Mission of WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni

Posthumously
2011 Courtney Gilbert Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2011 Peter Osswald Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"America's War in Afghanistan", Advisor Bland Addison
2011 James P. Baum '71 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2011 Nathan Horvath Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering
2011 Dan Bjorge Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
2011 James P. Baum '86 Innovator of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Alumni
2011 Warner Fletcher WPI Award for Distinguished Service WPI Alumni Association
2011 Joseph E. Laptewicz, Jr. '71 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2011 Evald Muraj Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2011 Felipe Polido Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2011 Jeffrey C. Marrion Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2011 Shawn P Carey National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University
2011 Melissa Besse John Boynton Young Alumni Award for Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2011 Claude P. Mancel '71 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2011 Evald Muraj Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Humanities & Arts
2011 Andrew D Marchese National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Artificial Intelligence at MIT
2011 William San Martin Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty Humanities & Arts

USA/Chile
2011 William W. Farr Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Mathematical Sciences

Read the citation: 2011 Outstanding Teaching Award

2011 Awards for Excellence in Teaching, Research, Advising, and Community Service Presented at Honors Convocation
2011 David Adams Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Academic Advising Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Biology & Biotechnology

Read the citation: 2011 Academic Advising Award
2011 Kaveh Pahlavan Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Read the citation: 2011 Outstanding Research Award

2011 Awards for Excellence in Teaching, Research, Advising, and Community Service Presented at Honors Convocation
2011 Michael P. Zarrilli '71 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2011 Karen Anundson Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2011 Douglas K Tischer National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Cell Biology at UC-San Francisco
2011 Rev. Peter J. Scanlon Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2011 Richard K. Allen '76 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2011 Lillian M Clark Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Environmental Engineering
2011 Linnea Palmer Paton Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Environmental Engineering
2011 Jonathan M Charest National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University
2011 Melissa M. Besse (Lichwan) '91 John Boynton Young Alumni Award for Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2011 Celena Dopart Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2011 Sarah Mattessich Two Towers Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2011 Aaron P. Champagne Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2011 Mark Tyler Hawthorne Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2011 Daniel W Carney National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Chemistry at Brown University
2010 John FitzPatrick '75 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2010 William Trask Alumni
2010 Rui Dai Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2010 Tanvir Madan Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2010 Manasi Vartak Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science, Mathematical Sciences
2010 William "Tuna" Trask Goat's Head Award for Lifetime Commitment to WPI WPI Alumni Association
2010 Constance Clark Romeo L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Humanities & Arts

Read the citation: 2010 Romeo Award
2010 Elke Rudensteiner Chair's Exemplary Faculty Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Computer Science

Computer Science Professor Elke Rundensteiner Receives WPI's 2010 Chairman's Exemplary Faculty Prize
2010 Virginia Giordano FitzPatrick '75 Alumni
2010 Olufunmilayo Olatokunbo Adebayo Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2010 Alyssa Vincent Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2010 Lynn Anne Worobey National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Biomedical Engineering at University of Pittsburgh
2010 Kenneth Stafford Denise Nicoletti Trustees' Award for Service to Community Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty

Read the citation: 2010 Denise Nicoletti Trustees Award

2010 Awards for Excellence in Teaching, Research, Advising, and Community Service Presented at Honors Convocation
2010 Judith Nitsch '75 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni