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Year	Recipient	Name	Title	Awarded by	Type	Department	Details
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
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
2017	Arthur Heinricher	Advisor of the Year		Worcester Polytechnic Institute			Phi Kappa Theta
2010	Jairo Argueta	Student Employee of the Year		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Rubin Campus Center
2017	Gareth Solbeck	Salisbury Prize		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Interactive Media & Game Development
2017	Lucy Garvey	Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Mechanical & Materials Engineering	Outstanding Major Qualifying Project
2017	Akshata Kamat	Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards	Third Place	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Graduate
2017	Weijie Pang	Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards	Second Place	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Graduate	Mathematical Sciences
2017	Benjamin Cooper	Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards	First Place	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Graduate	Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2016	Kristen Chan, Jessica Hatt, Maricella Ramirez	Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate		Too Much Brown in the Puget Sound
2008	Edwin B. Coghlin, Jr. ‘56	Edwin “Ted” Coghlin Jr. ’56 Humanitarian Leadership Award		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Alumni
2018	Ryan Cooney	Salisbury Prize		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Electrical & Computer Engineering
2018	Rachel Santarsiero	Salisbury Prize		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Professional Writing
2018	Taylyn Hulse	Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards	First Place	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Graduate	Learning Sciences & Technologies
2018	Naveen Pothayath	Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards	Second Place	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Graduate	Data Science
2018	Victoria Loehle	Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate		Outstanding Major Qualifying Project
2019	Ryan E. Darnley	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2019	Thomas V. Ralph	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Electrical & Computer Engineering, International & Global Studies
2019	Robert Orr	Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards	Second Place	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Graduate	Biology & Biotechnology
2018	Neel Dhanaraj	Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate		“An Analysis of the Potential Endangerment of Immigrants Due to Merit-Based Immigration,” advisor: Jennifer McWeeny
2013	Damien Cabral	Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate		"The Origins of Muslim Extremism" , advisor: W.A. Bland Addison
2019	Yan Wang	Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Faculty	Mechanical & Materials Engineering	Excellence in Teaching, Research, Advising, and Community Service Recognized at Honors Convocation View Profile
2019	Behnam Partopour	Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Graduate		Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation
2018	Matias Campos Abad, Robert Crockett, Matthew Escalante-Hurtado, Alexander Kant, Marcus Knodler, Lucas Mancinelli, Jacob Nichols	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Aerospace Engineering	"Design and Analysis of CubeSats in Low Earth Orbit." Advisor: John Blandino
2019	Sean Fraser	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Mathematical Sciences	"Nanoionic Particle Composite Homogenization." Advisor: Joseph D Fehribach
2020	Bids for Kids	Program of the Year		Worcester Polytechnic Institute			Phi Sigma Sigma
2019	Rosa Reynoso	Marietta E. Anderson Award		Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2020	Amber Foote	Crimson and Gray Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2019	Chisom Okafor	Crimson and Gray Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2018	Kyle Young	Crimson and Gray Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2020	Catherine Sherman	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Bioinformatics & Computational Biology	Moss Fungal Interactions
2020	Katherine Vaz Gomes	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Professional Writing	Segurança e Pesquisa: A Case Study of Translation & Localization of Standard Operating Procedures in the BIOTAR Laboratory
2020	Alissa Ostapenko	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Computer Science
2015	Jinghan Wu	Two Towers Prize	Honorable Mention	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Mechanical & Materials Engineering, Professional Writing
2020	Carlo Pinciroli	Romeo L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Faculty		Read the citation: 2020 Romeo L. Moruzzi Award View Profile
2020	Douglas Reilly	Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Graduate		Doctoral Dissertation
2021	Edward Jarvis	Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards	First Place	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Graduate	Physics
2021	Zoe Januszewski	Peer Learning Assistant of the Year	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2021	Samantha Grillo	Crimson and Gray Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate
2021	Kweku Sam Colecraft	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Chemical Engineering	MOF-5 Cap and Guest Interplay
2021	Mia Buccowich, Andrew Strauss	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate		Partial Hand Prosthetic
2021	Esther Boucher-Yip	Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Faculty	Humanities & Arts	https://www.wpi.edu/library/archives-special-collections/history/awards/board-trustees-award-outstanding-teaching
2022	Munevver Elif Asar Sarikaya	Sustainability Project Competition	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Graduate	Office of Sustainability	Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Energy_intensive Industrial Drying by Novel Drying Methods
2021	Jocelyn L. Mendes	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Chemistry & Biochemistry
2022	Sydney Borrello	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2022	Rose Noggle	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2022	George Heineman	Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Faculty	Computer Science
2022	Adam Murrison '23	Student Employee of the Year		Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2016	Christina Aiello	Teaching Assistant of the Year	Honorable Mention	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Graduate	Computer Science
2022	Juliette Spitael Advisor: Adryen Gonzales	Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate		“Prac in HUA: Advanced Contemporary Work,”