Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2008 David S. Adams Chair's Exemplary Faculty Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Biology & Biotechnology

Two Outstanding WPI Faculty Members Receive Chairman's Exemplary Faculty Prizes at Commencement
2008 Chrysanthe Demetry '88 Ichabod Washburn Young Alumni Award for Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2008 Hilal Tetik Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate International & Global Studies
2008 Russell R. Kernan Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2008 Denise Gleason, Kristoffer Jensen, Garima Painuly Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering

"Proton Exchange Membranes and Membrane Electrode Assemblies for Enhanced Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Performance"

Advisor: Ravindra Datta
2008 Edwin B. Coghlin, Jr. ‘56 Edwin “Ted” Coghlin Jr. ’56 Humanitarian Leadership Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Alumni
2008 Joshua Rosenstock Romeo L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Humanities & Arts

Read the citation: 2008 Romeo Award
2008 Alexander E. Emanuel Electrical & Computer Engineering
2008 John J. West, Jr. '88 John Boynton Young Alumni Award for Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2008 Daniel J. Smaltz Two Towers Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2008 Eugeny Sosnovsky Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering, Physics
2008 Kristoffer G. Jensen Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
2008 Catherine Casey, Katie Hudon, Elizabeth Stewart Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering

"Design of a Multipollutant Sorbent for Coal Gasification"

Advisors: Jennifer Wilcox, Erdem Sasmaz
2008 Matthew J. Friend '93 John Boynton Young Alumni Award for Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2008 Andrew Marchese Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Origins of Emergent Order: The Inadequacy of Reductionism and the Complexity of Light Phenomena," advisor: David Spanagel
2008 Carolyn S. Hunter Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2008 Kevin Gagnon Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

"Synthesis of Multipyridyl Ligands for Multipoint Photodimerization"

Advisor: Venkat Thalladi
2008 Nicole Baugh Student Employee of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Marketing Communications
2008 Samuel Pullara III '93 Ichabod Washburn Young Alumni Award for Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2008 Richard Pampuro Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Right within Anarchism," advisor: John Sanbonmatsu
2008 Justine J. Roberts Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2008 Kataryzna Koscielska, Oliver Salmon Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

"Mapping of HTLV-1 Tax Functional Domain Conferring Cellular Senescence"

Advisor: Destin Heilman
2008 Yilmaz Kiymaz Student Employee of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Information Technology Services
2008 Edwin B. Coghlin Jr. '56 Alumni
2008 Rebecca Hoffman Bach '98 John Boynton Young Alumni Award for Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2008 Maggie Allard Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"The Butterfly (animated short)," advisor: Joshua Rosenstock
2008 Syed M. Ali Two Towers Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2008 Charles A.Gammal III Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2008 Chelsea Bierkan, Courtney Rheault, Katharine Woodman Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering

"Adaptive Reuse Plan for the Worcester County Courthouse"

Advisor: Leonard ALbano
2008 Daniel J. Smaltz The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Winner The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2008 Michael S. Gutman '58 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2008 Seth A. Popinchalk '98 John Boynton Young Alumni Award for Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2008 Rui Dai Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Red and the Rest (a memoir)," advisor: Lorraine Higgins
2008 Neal Orman Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science

"GPU Optimization of an Existing Free-Viewpoint Video System"

Advisor: Robert Lindeman
2008 Alexander E. Emanuel Chair's Exemplary Faculty Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Electrical & Computer Engineering

Two Outstanding WPI Faculty Members Receive Chairman's Exemplary Faculty Prizes at Commencement
2008 Balaji Panchapakesan National Science Foundation CAREER Award National Science Foundation Faculty Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2008 Douglas K. Tischer The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Winner The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2008 Joaquim S. Ribeiro '58 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2008 Kirk Lanciani Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Soaring on the Ground: The Flight Simulator," advisor: E. Malcom Parkinson
2008 Alexandra M. Sanseverino Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology, Humanities & Arts
2008 Russell Morin Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2008 Christina L. Ernst Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
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
2008 Shawn P. Carey The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Honorable Mention The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2008 Alfred A. Molinari Jr. '63 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2008 Ryan Whetstone Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Jazz Saxophone Performance; From Swing to Fusion," advisor: Richad Falco
2008 Paul A. Moran Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2008 Diana Damyanova Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2008 Jorge Alejandro, Muzhtaba Islam, Thomas Niemczycki Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering

"Automation of a Telescope Imaging System"

Advisor: John Orr
2008 Scott W. Ramsay '68 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni