Award Recipients
Year | Recipient | Name | Title | Awarded by | Type | Department | Details |
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2024 | Nora Smith. Advisor: Joseph Aguilar | Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mechanical & Materials Engineering | Creative Arts: "Burnout." |
2024 | Ben Kresge. Advisor: John Sanbonmatsu | Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Computer Science | Scholarship: "Having it Both Ways: Can I be a Moral Omnivore?" |
2024 | Patrick J. Healey. Advisor: Kevin Lewis | Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities | Honorable Mention | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mechanical & Materials Engineering | Creative Arts: "P.J. Haus." |
2024 | Olivia Spielberger. Advisor: Roshanak Bigonah | Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities | Honorable Mention | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Biology & Biotechnology | Creative Arts: "Visual Persuasion, Ocean Empathy." |
2024 | Xavier Morales. Advisor: Joseph Cullon | Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities | Honorable Mention | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Physics | Scholarship: Systemic Racisn as an Environmetnal Detriment: The Warren County Protests and Legacy of PCBs in America." |
2024 | Lauren Abraham | Peer Learning Assistant of the Year | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Biology & Biotechnology | Peer Learning Assistant, Biology and Biotechnology |
2024 | Cassidy Williams | Peer Learning Assistant of the Year | Honorable Mention | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Physics | Peer Learning Assistant, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering |
2024 | Jillian Crandall. Advisor: Despoina Giapoudzi | Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Biology & Biotechnology | Performing Arts: “Directing is Like a FishBowl: A Project Portfolio.”
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2023 | Eli Swai | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemical Engineering | |
2023 | Catherine Salvaggio | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | The Business School | |
2023 | Caitlin Veltrup | Charles O. Thompson Scholar Outstanding Member of the Class | Honorable Mention | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | ||
2023 | Stefanie Beaudry, Vanessa Bussiere, Sarah Johnson, Athina Theofilou | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering | "Net Zero and Resilient Housing for Heat Waves" |
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2023 | Dante Coccagnia, Domenic DiCenso, Mary Suckow | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | The Business School | "Evaluating Quality, Environmental Impact, and Economic Sustainability in Support of Benchmarking Efforts at Twelve Guns Brewing" |
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2023 | Angela Rodriguez | Romeo L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Faculty | Psychological Science | ||
2023 | Patrick J. Nieman | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering | |
2023 | Josephine Kim | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | The Business School | |
2023 | Paula Gibbons | Charles O. Thompson Scholar Outstanding Member of the Class | Honorable Mention | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | ||
2023 | Jeffrey Marsh | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemistry & Biochemistry | "Copper Homeostasis in Salmonella enterica: cloning, expression, and purification of CopA transporter and CueO cuproprotein" Advisor: José Argüello |
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2023 | Jessica Wang | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mathematical Sciences | "Tiling of Prime and Composite Kirchhoff Graphs " |
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2023 | Lindsay Davis and Rebecca Moody | Romeo L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Faculty | Humanities & Arts | ||
2023 | Stephen Price | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Computer Science | |
2023 | Olivia Atkins | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Biology & Biotechnology | |
2023 | Ronak Wani | Charles O. Thompson Scholar Outstanding Member of the Class | Honorable Mention | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | ||
2023 | David Datta | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Bioinformatics & Computational Biology | "Simulating Intestinal Microbiotic Interactions with Agent Based Modeling" |
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2023 | Rachel Chan, Mackenzie Damon, Giulia Herszage Rocha, Kelly McDonald, Madelyn Thrasher | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mechanical & Materials Engineering | : "Device to Aid in Mechanical Ventilation of Obese Patients" |
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2023 | Jack Adiletta | The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation | Winner | The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation | Undergraduate | Electrical & Computer Engineering, Data Science | |
2023 | Alex Friedman | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Computer Science | |
2023 | Ally Breen | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Biology & Biotechnology | |
2023 | Songbai Ji | Sigma Xi Outstanding Senior Faculty Award | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Faculty | Biomedical Engineering | ||
2023 | Alex Boucher Jr | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Biology & Biotechnology | Structural Analysis of Kek1's Interaction with the EGFR" |
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2023 | Nicole Dombrowski | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Physics | "Feasibility of Using a PIPs Detector for Neutron Detection" |
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2023 | Jeannine Coburn | National Science Foundation CAREER Award | National Science Foundation | Faculty | Biomedical Engineering | ||
2023 | Robert Oleynick | Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Electrical & Computer Engineering | |
2023 | Matthew Dzwil | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Data Science | |
2023 | Loris Fichera | National Science Foundation CAREER Award | National Science Foundation | Faculty | |||
2023 | Amity Manning | Sigma Xi Outstanding Junior Faculty Award | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Faculty | Biology & Biotechnology | ||
2023 | Madison Gass, Grace Jolin, Isabel Nearing, Kathryn Woodland | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Biomedical Engineering | "Detecting Ice Nucleation in Supercooled Red Blood Cell Samples" |
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2023 | Alex Friedman | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Professional Writing | "A Rhetorical Framework for Programming Language Design" |
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2023 | Adam Bartlett | Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize | Honorable Mention | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering | |
2023 | Abigail Leonardi | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Electrical & Computer Engineering | |
2023 | Christopher Micek | Teaching Assistant of the Year | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Graduate | Computer Science | |
2023 | May Flores | Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | |||
2023 | Alana Miska | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemical Engineering | "Development of Module for Fire Dynamics" |
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2023 | Samantha Brown, Alyssa Magaha | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | "Creating a Multi-Robot, Multi-Human, Multi-Platform System" |
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2023 | Amanda Holbrook | Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize | Honorable Mention | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemistry & Biochemistry | |
2023 | Dayna Tang | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Environmental Engineering | |
2023 | Paul Pacheco | Teaching Assistant of the Year | Honorable Mention | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Graduate | Learning Sciences & Technologies | |
2023 | Devon Poisson | Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | |||
2023 | Abigail Berube | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemistry & Biochemistry | “Silanes Form Strong Bond to UiO-66 Metal-Organic Framework Surfaces" Advisor: Ronald Grimm |
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2023 | Colby Frechette, Iris Morin | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Social Science & Policy Studies | Monitoring Ocean Microplastics Through Citizen Science" |