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Year	Recipient	Name	Title	Awarded by	Type	Department	Details
2020	Samantha Lor, Megan Olson, Hannah Goddard, and Laura Boccio	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering	Wildlife Crossing Development for Highway 1 in Batipa, Panama
2020	Elisabeth Ann Stoddard	Romeo L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Faculty	Office of the Provost, Social Science & Policy Studies	Read the citation: 2020 Romeo L. Moruzzi Award View Profile
2020	Matt Desrosiers	Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Graduate		Doctoral Dissertation
2021	Jakub Tomasz Kaminski	Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards	First Place	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Graduate
2021	Kyle Gerlach	Teaching Assistant of the Year	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Graduate	Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering	- https://www.wpi.edu/news/announcements/kyle-gerlach-recognized-teaching-assistant-year-2021
2021	Elizabeth van Zyl	Crimson and Gray Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Graduate
2021	Jocelyn Mendes	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Chemistry & Biochemistry	Interfacial States, Energetics, and Passivation of Large-Grain and Thin-Film Antifluorite Cesium Titanium Bromide
2021	Yvonne Niebuhr	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Social Science & Policy Studies	Improving Oral Contraceptives: Encouraging Research into Oral Contraceptives and Their Side Effects
2021	Jeannine Coburn	Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Academic Advising		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Faculty	Biomedical Engineering	2021 Annual Trustees' Awards Hhonor Faculty and Staff for Excellence in Teaching, Advising, and Research
2021	Matthew J. Adiletta	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Electrical & Computer Engineering
2021	Sydney E. Messey	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Aerospace Engineering
2022	Kirsten Bowers	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Aerospace Engineering
2022	Patrick O'Mullan	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Computer Science, Physics
2022	Ann McCarron	Advisor of the Year		Worcester Polytechnic Institute			American Cancer Society on Campus
2022	Julia Bryant '22	Peer Learning Assistant of the Year		Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2016	Amirmahdi Ghasemi	Teaching Assistant of the Year	Honorable Mention	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Graduate	Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2022	Katelyn Quinn-Cyr Advisor: John Sanbonmatsu	Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate		“Understanding the True Relationship Between Women and Mental Illness”
2017	Griffin Bishop	Peer Learning Assistant of the Year	Honorable Mention	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Computer Science	Peer Tutor, Academic Resources Center
2013	Nick DeMarinis	Peer Learning Assistant of the Year	Honorable Mention	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering	Peer tutor, Writing Center
2023	Gabriel Espinosa	Two Towers Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Mechanical & Materials Engineering, Physics
2023	Yihong Xu	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Interactive Media & Game Development
2023	Stephen Kmiotek	Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Academic Advising		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Faculty	Chemistry & Biochemistry
2022	Tyler Lizotte and Harrison Smith	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Aerospace Engineering	“Design of a 6U Cubesat for an Ionospheric Mission” Advisor: Nikolaos A. Gatsonis
2022	Christopher Guerrette, Natalie Mohn	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	The Business School	“Development of a Cloud-Based Enterprise Resource Planning System for Gompei’s Goat Cheese” Advisors: Jim Ryan
2023	Arthur Ames, Charlotte Clark, Evelyn Dube, Declan Murphy	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Computer Science	"Creating the Pwnable Claw Machine" Advisors: Loris Fichera, Robert Walls
2024	Alden Johnson	Two Towers Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2024	Lauren Eppinger	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Humanities & Arts
2014	Jedediah Perron	Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate		“Going Out With A Bang: The American Supersonic Transport and the Environmental Movement” Major: Aerospace Engineering. Advisor: Thomas Robertson
2014	Xuan He	Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities	Honorable Mention	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate		“Faith Healing” Major: Biomedical Engineering. Advisor: Bethel Eddy
2016	Hannah Reinertsen	CEE Advisory Board MQP Award		Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2016	Nicholas P. McMahon	Salisbury Prize		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Computer Science
2016	Joshua Keller	Salisbury Prize		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Mathematical Sciences
2016	Gyneth Campbell	Two Towers Prize	Honorable Mention	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2015	Ali Akhtar	IEEE Power & Energy Society Scholarship		Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2015	Daniel Gendin	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Mathematical Sciences	"Mathematical Model of Laminate Materials" Advisor: Burt Tilley
2015	Gabriela Romero	Crimson and Gray Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2015	Kemal Arsava	Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Graduate	Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering, Fire Protection Engineering	Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation
2015	Meghan Dawe	Marietta E. Anderson Award		Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2015	Rachel Blakely	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
2015	Taylor Flaxington	Kalenian Award		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate
2016	Veronica Rojas, MS	Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Graduate	Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2003	James P. O'Rourke	Denise Nicoletti Trustees' Award for Service to Community		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Faculty	Electrical & Computer Engineering	Read the citation: 2003 Denise Nicoletti Trustees Award
2000	Stephen J. Weininger	Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Faculty	Chemistry & Biochemistry	Read the citation: 2000 Outstanding Teaching Award
1985	John F. Zeugner	Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Faculty	Humanities & Arts
1969	William R. Grogan	Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Faculty	Electrical & Computer Engineering
2001	Alexander E. Emanuel	Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Academic Advising		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Faculty	Electrical & Computer Engineering	Read the citation: 2001 Academic Advising Award
2000	Pamela J. Weathers	Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Faculty	Biology & Biotechnology	Read the citation: 2000 Outstanding Research Award
1988	Michael M. Sokal	Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Faculty	Humanities & Arts
2004	Kathryn Fisler	Romeo L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Faculty	Computer Science	Read the citation: 2004 Romeo Award
2016	Aaron Birt	Kalenian Award		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Graduate