Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2020 Adam Collins, William Kopellas, David Simpson Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Architectural Engineering

Analyzing the Built Environment and Human Behavior through the Creation of an Immersive Space

2020 Daniel Ruiz Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate

MS Thesis

2021 Zahra Noori Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2021 Phi Sigma Sigma Diversity Program of the Year Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Student Group

Phight Stigma Sigma

2021 Khadijah Ibrahim Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2021 Connor Bruneau, Hunter Caouette, Rimsha Kayastha, Veronica Melican, Miranda Hernandez-Reisch Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Data Science

Machine Learning for Mental Health Screening

2021 Joshua Rohde Romeo L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Humanities & Arts

Read the Citation:  2021 Romeo L. Mortuzzi Award

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2021 Emily Perlow Denise Nicoletti Trustees' Award for Service to Community Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Dean of Students

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2021 Brooke E. Dawson Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2021 Coulter Q. Ralston Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2022 Camila Carvalho Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2022 Brandon Persons Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2022 Society of Women Engineers Organization of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2015 Michael Delph Teaching Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2022 Alden Johnson Advisor: Rebecca Moody Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Gender in Wrestling: A Breakdown Beyond the Takedown" 

2017 Alexander Taglieri Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Computer Science

Peer Learning Assistant, Robotics Engineering

2013 Jennifer Mann Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical & Materials Engineering

Tutor, Academic Resources Center

2023 Tyler Guertin Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering
2023 Julia Sheats Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2023 Jeanine Skorinko Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Social Science & Policy Studies
2022 Silvana Reid Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

β€œAssessment of Nucleotide Labeling to Determine Organization of DNA Replication”

Advisor: Destin Heilman

2022 Anna Catlett, Dominick Gravante, Casey Willis Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

β€œRepurposing PLA into 3D Printing Filament”   

Advisor: John Sullivan

2023 Claire Behning, Amanda Holbrook Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Social Science & Policy Studies, Psychological Science

"Exploring the Effect of CBD on C. elegans with 6-OHDA-induced Parkinson's Disease to Determine Potential Therapeutic Effects "
Advisors: Michael Buckholt, James Doyle, Jill Rulfs, Suzanne Scarlata, Jagan Srinivasan

2024 Trevor Bush Two Towers Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2024 John Edward Carrotta Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Interactive Media & Game Development
2016 Ingrid Marko Strage Innovation Award First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute

"Brace Yourself: Redesigning the Charleston Back Brace"

2015 Fabeinne Miller Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty
2016 Kelsey Ouellette CEE Advisory Board MQP Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2016 Amanda Adkins Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
2016 Elizabeth Thompson Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Humanities & Arts

"What's Bugging Me About Literary Translation: Translating German to English"

Advisor: Ulrike Brisson

Alyssa Fidanza, MS Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2015 Daniele Mucaro Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
2015 Kevin Ackerman Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2015 Melissa Dery Tau Beta Pi Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2013 Robert L. Diamond '56 Innovator of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Alumni
Tiatiana Egorova, PhD Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2016 Carl Soderhjelm, PhD Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Materials Science & Engineering
2014 Sharon Wulf Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty

Read the citation: 2014 Outstanding Teaching Award

2014 Awards for Excellence in Teaching, Research, Advising, and Community Service Presented at Honors Convocation
1998 Leonard D. Albano Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering

Read the citation: 1998 Outstanding Teaching Award

1983 Hartley T. Grandin, Jr Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2014 Chrysanthe Demetry Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Academic Advising Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Mechanical & Materials Engineering

Read the citation: 2014 Academic Advising Award

2014 Awards for Excellence in Teaching, Research, Advising, and Community Service Presented at Honors Convocation
2014 Diane Strong Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty

Read the citation: 2014 Outstanding Research Award

2014 Awards for Excellence in Teaching, Research, Advising, and Community Service Presented at Honors Convocation
1998 Kent P. Ljungquist Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Humanities & Arts

Read the citation: 1998 Outstanding Research Award

1986 Alexander E. Emanuel Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Electrical & Computer Engineering
2002 Ross D. Shonat Romeo L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Biomedical Engineering

Read the citation: 2002 Romeo Award

2016 Nicholas Cyganski Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2016 Hailey Cambra Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

"Transcriptional Evidence of the Role of the ROotstock in Different Artemisia annua Chemotypes"

Advisor: Pamela Weathers

2015 Dusty Cyr, Radu Morar, Joseph Sperry Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering

"Helicopter Sling Load Stabilization with Active Control"

Advisor: Raghvendra Cowlagi, David Olinger

2011 Peter Osswald Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"America's War in Afghanistan", Advisor Bland Addison

2009 Michael Szkutak Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Presidential Electioneering in the Television Age," advisor: J. Hanlan