Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2008 Maryann Bagdis Goebel '73 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2008 Sanouri (Fernando) Ursprung Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Humanities & Arts

"Battling Malaria: A History of International Health Aid"

Advisors: William A.B. Addison, Peter Hansen
2008 Roger E. Lavallee '73 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2008 Lynn A. Worobey Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2008 James P. Chryssanthacopoulos Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
2008 Dana R. Asplund, Kalun Fu, Yilmaz Kiymaz, Timothy Loughlin Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Interactive Media & Game Development

"The Alligator: A Video Game History of a Civil War Submarine"

Advisor: Robert Lindeman
2008 Virginia Ward Fulbright U.S. Student Award Fulbright U.S. Student Program Graduate International & Global Studies

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2007 William W. Rawstron '57 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2007 Erika S. Hall Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2007 Brandon Germain, Robert Shaw Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Interactive Media & Game Development

"From FPS into Strategy CTF in UT2k4"

Advisor: David Finkel
2007 John Goulet Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Mathematical Sciences

Read the citation: 2007 Outstanding Teaching Award
2007 Jon P. Abraham Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Academic Advising Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Mathematical Sciences

Read the citation: 2007 Academic Advising Award
2007 Elke Rundensteiner Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Computer Science

Read the citation: 2007 Outstanding Research Award
2007 Michael J. Stephens '57 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2007 Andrew Port, Jeremy Ristau Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences

"One—Dimensional Viscoelastic Cell Motility Model"

Advisor: Roger Lui
2007 Curtis R. Carlson '67 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2007 Amanda N. McCullough Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2007 Jessica Clark, Sean Mulready Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences

"Optimal Portfolio Analysis with Turnover Constraints"

Advisor: Arthur Heinricher
2007 Joseph L. Ferrantino '67 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2007 Samuel Feller, Nathan Malatesta, Nicholas McMahon Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering

Advisor: Kenneth Stafford
2007 Elizabeth Tomaszewski Denise Nicoletti Trustees' Award for Service to Community Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Facilities Office

Read the citation: 2007 Denise Nicoletti Trustees Award
2007 David Cyganski '75 William R. Grogan Award for Support of the Mission of WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2007 Krista J. Smith Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2007 Kerri L. George Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2007 Colin DeGraf, Keeley Stevens Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics

"Lateral Force Calibration for Probe Microscopy"

Advisor: Nancy Burnham
2007 William D. Cunningham '77 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2007 Danielle N. Sorenson Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2007 Brian T. Marsland Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2007 Rachel Berg, Matthew Clark Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering

"Analysis of an Onboard Infrared Camera Assembly"

Advisor: Nikos Gatsonis
2007 Stephanie LeGare Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Professional Writing

"Drawing Back the Curtains: Finding New Ways to Assess and Improve Tutoring Services in the Writing Center at WPI"

Advisor: Lorraine Higgins
2007 Domenico Grasso '77 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2007 Megan Rose Slonski Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2007 Sanjayan Manivannan Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences, Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2007 Donna Davidson Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology

"Inhibition of HIV—1 Tat—Induced Inflammation by the NF—kB Subunit RelB"

Advisor: David Adams
2007 J. Robert Krueger Romeo L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Integrative & Global Studies

Read the citation: 2007 Romeo Award
2007 David C. Cortese '92 Ichabod Washburn Young Alumni Award for Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2007 Pratap M. Rao Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2007 Yang (Russell) Gao Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2007 Charles Gammal (ME/ECE), Erika Hall, Rachelle Horwitz, Stephanie LeGare Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering

"A Device for Monitoring the Severity of Peripheral Edema"

Advisors: Kristen Billiar, Yitzhak Mendelson, John McNeill, Raymond Dunn
2007 Jami B. Walsh '97, '99 John Boynton Young Alumni Award for Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2007 William A. Pfeil Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering
2007 Priya Jayachandran Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering

"Kinetics of Nanoparticle—Based DNA Hybridization"

Advisor: Susan Zhou
2007 Genevieve A. Desaulniers Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2007 Neil D. Lettenberger Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2007 Eugene F. Douglass Jr. Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2007 Eugene Douglass (Chemistry) Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

"Synthesis and Quantitative Testing of Electrochemical and Optical Sensors in Surface Formats"

Advisor: Grant McGimpsey
2007 Lynn A. Worobey The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Winner The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2007 Krystal L. Parker Two Towers Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2007 Diana M. Otalvaro-Gutierrez Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
2007 Kerri George (Biochemistry) Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

"The Effects of Ajulemic Acid on Osteoclast Differentiation"

Advisor: Jill Rulfs