Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2009 Nicholas B. LeCompte Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences, Physics
2010 John William Meklenburg Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering
2010 Yuk-Kwan Brian Yuen Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2017 Ashley White Student Employee of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Facilities Office
2017 Connor Tower Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2009 Shreelekha Mandal Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology

"Functional Specificity of Lipid Elongases in Development"

Advisor: Joseph Duffy
2009 Christopher M. Drouin Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science

"The Mindful Reader: Learning- Augmented News Aggregation"

Advisor: David C. Brown
2008 Christina Ernst Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology

"Structure/Function Studies of kekkon5, a Putative Novel Component of the Cellular Adhesion Machinery"

Advisor: Joseph Duffy
2008 Belin Beyoglu, Martin Ivanonv Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Social Science & Policy Studies

"Technical Analysis of CAN SLIM Stocks"

Advisor: Michael Radzicki
2007 Colin DeGraf, Keeley Stevens Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics

"Lateral Force Calibration for Probe Microscopy"

Advisor: Nancy Burnham
2012 Nicholas Mondor Student Employee of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Office of the Provost
2017 Alison Paquin Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2015 Jordan Jones (BME), Rebecca Lee (BME), Mikayla Pasciuto (ME), and Shreyas Renganathan (BME) Strage Innovation Award First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

MilkSafe Storage Device - The MilkSafe team is prototyping an affordable lean-in-concept cooling container to store mother’s milk at appropriate temperatures for up to 16 hours. In low-income nations, such as Haiti, where electricity, refrigeration, and ice are not readily or reliably available, the team intends to use this product to facilitate storing mother’s milk while she is away from her infant at work and help reduce the number of infant deaths there due to malnutrition.
Habibeh Ashouri Choshali Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2017 Naveen Pothayath Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Data Science
2017 Diego Vargas Blanco Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Biology & Biotechnology
2016 Alexa Itsines, Katie Long, Trinity Tedsten, Carly Whittle, Kristen Southan Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Increasing Accessible HIV Screening in Zimbabwe
2015 Joseph Berger, Jamie Stephen, Taylor Stephen, Barrett Wolfson Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Algae Biofuel Enhancement Project
2018 Stephanie Cappelli Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Environmental Engineering
2018 Virginia Nunez Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
2018 Toni Delorey Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Biology & Biotechnology
2018 Michael Moukarzel Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Second Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2017 Maeghan Desmarais, Kayla Krom, Patrick Macaulay, Lara Padir, Charlotte White Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners People’s Choice Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

The Protection Page Plan
2018 Ali Hussain Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Outstanding Major Qualifying Project
2019 Joshua Driscoll Two Towers Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2019 Haylea T. Northcott Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Biology & Biotechnology
2019 Binod Giri Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Second Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2019 Umesh U. Nair Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Second Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Data Science
2019 Ally Salvino Charles O. Thompson Scholar Outstanding Member of the Class Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2019 Jessica Walsh Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Outstanding Major Qualifying Project
2017 Nicholas Cyganski, Benjamin Gillette, Killian Henson, Keshuai Xu Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"The Autonomous Cargo Aircraft Project (ACAP)."

Advisors: Profs. Michael Ciaraldi, Fred Looft
2019 Shaun McCoy and Erika Stark Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

"Evaluating Sunscreen Actives and Their Derivatives as Potential Sensitizers in DSSC."

Advisor: Drew Brodeur
2018 Brandon Sanders Strage Innovation Award Second Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Alicorn is a novel cyber-physical framework that lets users control individual devices using a single language, coordinate large groups of devices using a common data format, and easily add support for new devices using extensible firmware.
2020 Mbolle Akume Emerging Leader of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2018 Panhellenic Council Edwin Coghlin ’23 Award for Community Service Worcester Polytechnic Institute Student Group

Elm Park Community School
2019 Maggie Kuck Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2018 Christine Schondek Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2019 Killian Henson Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Alumni
2020 Chester Barber, Timothy Esworthy, Sydney Palmer Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering

Tree Seedling Planter
2020 Kyle Wood Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2020 Ramona Bago Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2019 Laura Rosen Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Staff Member Worcester Polytechnic Institute Staff Student Development & Counseling Center
2020 Tom Partington Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Staff Member Worcester Polytechnic Institute Staff Chemical Engineering
2021 Walter Gerych Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Data Science
2021 Food Recovery Network Edwin Coghlin ’23 Award for Community Service Worcester Polytechnic Institute Student Group
2021 Jillian Forauer Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2021 Manon C. Miller Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology

Characterizing the Importance of the CO1 SLiM in Regulating Kek5's Activity
2021 Nasim Mansuri Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Professional Writing

Best Practices for Adapting Manufacturing Documentation
2021 Alexander Wyglinski Sigma Xi Outstanding Senior Faculty Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Electrical & Computer Engineering
2022 Nick Tomasetti, Nico Alvarado, Ben Mason, Anonymous Sustainability Project Competition Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Office of Sustainability

Using Media to Influence Agricultural Perceptions on Climate Change