Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2016 Megan O'Brien, PhD Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Biomedical Engineering
2016 Erik Nadel Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2016 Veroniki Nikolaki, Florentia Ong, Veronica Coyle Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology

"The Effects of Punicalagin and Tannic Acid on Caenorhabditis elegans Models of Alzheimer's Disease"

Advisor: Jagan Srinivasan

2016 Daniel Driggs, William Frick, Jacob Hawes, Derek Johnson Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Interactive Media & Game Development

β€œThe Piper”

2016 Benjamin Huchley Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Online Avatars: An Expression of the User's Self," advisor: Jennifer McWeeny

2016 Kevin Ackerman Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering

MASH leader, Tutor and Tutor team leader, Academic Resources Center

2016 Ysabel Espinal Frank D. DeFalco Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2016 Richard Vaz Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation In Engineering & Technology Education National Academy of Engineering Faculty
2016 Matthew Beardsley Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2016 Morgan Garbett
2016 Tommy Larkin Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2016 Amanda A. Adkins Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science

Outstanding Major Qualifying Project

2016 Dalia Shendi, PhD Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Biomedical Engineering
2016 Tyler Nickerson Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2016 Dennis Giaya, Rebecca Stolarczyk Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering

"System for Continuous Postoperative Monitoring in Microvascular Free Tissue Transfer"

Advisors: Yitzhak Mendelson, Raymond Dunn (UMMS), Samandar Dowlatshahi (UMMS)

2016 Kelsey Brofford, John DeVries, Luis Pernia-Rovayo, Sebastian Vergara Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Process Improvement of Roller Housing Assembly at Siemens"

Advisor: Walter Towner

2016 Matthew A. Beaton '01 Ichabod Washburn Young Alumni Award for Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2016 Damien Joseph Cabral National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Life Sciences - Microbial Biology at Brown University

2016 Alex Markoski Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Greatest Influences for Being a Well-Rounded Musician," advisor: Douglas Weeks

2016 Victor Hu Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering

Tutor, Academic Resources Center

2016 Yun Jae Sohn Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2016 Kent P. Ljungquist Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Humanities & Arts

2016 Awards for Excellence in Teaching, Research, Advising, and Community Service Presented at Honors Convocation​

2016 Sarah Chamberlain, Richard Eberheim Strage Innovation Award Second Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute

"Adaptable System for Construction Using Additive Manufacturing"

2016 Ryan Herrmann Undergraduate
2016 William Barnard Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Outstanding Major Qualifying Project

2016 Diran Apelian Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty
2016 George Kuegler, Gianna Terravecchia Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering

"Electrode Development of a Lactate Biosensor"

Advisor: Susan Zhou

2016 Ahmed S. AL-Baiti '96 Ichabod Washburn Young Alumni Award for Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2016 Jessica L Faust National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Mechanical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute

2016 Eric Stolz Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"One- and Two-State Peace Solutions in Israel," advisor: W.A. Bland Addison

2016 Courtney Jean Lewis Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2016 Jessica Orr Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering

Peer Learning Assistant, Chemical Engineering

2016 Wesley T. Mott Chair's Exemplary Faculty Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Humanities & Arts

Literature Scholar Wesley Mott Receives WPI's 2016 Chairman's Exemplary Faculty Prize

2016 Elia Perez Luna Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2016 Jessica Orr Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2016 Natalie Diltz Marietta E. Anderson Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2016 Veronica Rivera Student Employee of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Office of Accessibility Services
2016 Matthew Beardsley Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Outstanding Major Qualifying Project

2016 Allysa Grant Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2016 Fred Looft Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty
2016 Mario Alvarado Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

"Developing Fluorescent Aminoazobenzene Metal-Organic Frameworks"

Advisor: Shawn Burdette

2016 Donald D. Dossa '97 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2016 Megan Elizabeth Mancuso National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Biomedical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute

2016 Marissa Bennett Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2015 Brian Glatz Athletic Hall of Fame Worcester Polytechnic Institute Alumni
2015 Elizabeth van Zyl Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2015 John Cotter, Victor Hu, Alejandro Miranda, Hannah Reinertsen President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

Evaluation of the Feasibility of Establishing a Waste Collection Facility to Serve the Community of Cantera

Advisors: Lauren Mathews and Tina-Marie Ranalli

2015 Lena Pafumi Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2015 Sakshi Khurana Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2015 Veronica Rivero Gorrin Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute