Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2013 Jesse Lehman Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"A Discussion of 20th Century Musical Techniques and Their Presence in Karlheinz Stockhausen's Gruppen“ , advisor: Douglas Weeks
2019 Scarlet Shell Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Academic Advising Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Biology & Biotechnology

Excellence in Teaching, Research, Advising, and Community Service Recognized at Honors Convocation

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2019 Pratap Rao Sigma Xi Outstanding Junior Faculty Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Mechanical & Materials Engineering

Outstanding Junior Faculty Researcher
2018 Colby Johnson Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

"Design and Synthesis of Zika Virus Protease Inhibitors."

Advisor:  Drew Brodeur
2019 Hammad Sadiq Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology

"Transcriptional Regulation of Non-coding RNAs by Retinoblastoma Tumor Suppressor Protein."

Advisor:  Amity Manning
2019 Noah C. Budris, Daniel P. Pelaez Strage Innovation Award Second Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute

“Roadar” is a program working in conjunction with a laser scanner to offer municipalities a more efficient and cost-effective solution to road maintenance issues.
2019 Merit Badge Program of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Alpha Phi Omega
2018 Faria Kader Marietta E. Anderson Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2020 Meredith Forcier Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2019 Daly Place Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2018 Adrienne Weishaar Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2020 Urmila Mallick Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology

Social Integration: Feasibility of Free-Ranging Dogs for Animal: Welfare, Public Health, and Conservation Benefits.
2020 Mark Bray Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2020 Faith Kurtz Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2020 Stephanie Salerno and Jacquelyn Valsamis Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Environmental Engineering

An Environmental Analysis of Recreational Cannabis Cultivation and Processing
2020 Danielle Snider Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate

MS Thesis
2021 Lyric Liu Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2021 David Ortendahl Advisor of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Phi Gamma Delta and Vox
2021 Salvatore Lombardo Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2021 Sarah E. Kwatinetz , Maggie A. Ostwald, Lily C. Spicer Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering

Northern Strand Community Trail On-Road Extension
2021 Andrew Teixeira Romeo L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Chemical Engineering

Read the citation:  2021 Romeo L. Moruzzi Award

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2021 Gregory Fischer Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty

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2021 Jacob Ciolfi Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2021 Kalani M. Picho Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2022 Sean Burns Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2022 Trevor Paley Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
2022 IFC and Panhellinic Council Diversity Program of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Recognizing Bias for Inclusive Greek Organizations
2022 Marina Spenciner ‘22 CARE (Courageous, Aware, Responsible, Exceptional) Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2016 Jake Hughes Teaching Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2022 Kseniia Romanova Advisor: Adryen Gonzales Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"2D Design to 3D Sculpture" 
2017 Charles Lovering Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science

Student Assistant, Computer Science
2013 Shane Fagan Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Tutor and MASH leader, Academic Resources Center
2023 Sol Giesso Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Environmental Engineering
2023 Ben Gobler Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences
2023 Frederick Bianchi Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute Humanities & Arts
2022 Darius Luo, Erin Venard, and Hannah Whitney Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Architectural Engineering

“WPI Campus Center Feasibility Study for LEED O+M Certification”

Advisors: Leonard Albano, Soroush Farzin, and Shichao Liu.
2022 Ben Gobler Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences

“The Calkin-Wilf Tree; Extensions and Applications”

Advisors: Brigitte Servatius, Herman Servatius
2023 Sirut Buasai, Jason Dykstra, Dillon McCarthy, Cindy Trac Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Data Science

Advancing Diffusion Models for Human Activity Recognition"
Advisor: Elke Rundensteiner


 
2024 Benjamin Antupit Two Towers Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Robotics Engineering
2024 Joshua Kleiman Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Industrial Engineering
2015 Kimberly Marrion Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“Ethics, Dementia and Family: An Investigation into the Familial Issues that Arise with Dementia Patients,” major: Architectural Engineering, advisor: Bethel Eddy
2015 Paulo Carvalho Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“Developing and Composing for a Robotic Organ,” major: Biomedical Engineering and Robotics Engineering, minor: Electrical and Computer Engineering, advisor: Scott Barton
2016 Jessica R. Caccioppoli Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2015 Sonia Chernova Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Academic Advising Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Computer Science
2015 Katherine Picchione Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“Pokomchi Pictorial Literacy,” major: Mechanical Engineering and Society, Technology, and Policy, advisor: Ryan Madan
2016 Alpha Xi Delta (The Mustard Seed) Edwin Coghlin ’23 Award for Community Service Worcester Polytechnic Institute Student Group
2015 Guy Scuderi Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2016 Ken McPherson CARE (Courageous, Aware, Responsible, Exceptional) Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2016 Meghan Dawe Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2015 Rachel Wigell Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute