Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2020 Faria Kader Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2020 Olivia Hunker Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

Fabrication and Characterization of Asymmetric Phosphoinositide-containing Vesicles
2020 Brooke Honzel Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2020 Fang Han Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2020 Michael Clements, Leo Gross, Elizabeth Kirschner, Zetta Rajaniemi President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

Memorialization of the Spaç Labor Camp: An Investigation into Digital Methods

WPI Advisors: Robert Kinicki and Robert Hersh
2020 Scarlet Shell Sigma Xi Outstanding Junior Faculty Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Biology & Biotechnology

Outstanding Junior Faculty Researcher
2020 Andrew Clark National Science Foundation CAREER Award National Science Foundation Faculty Electrical & Computer Engineering
2020 Janet Begin Richardson Goat's Head Award for Lifetime Commitment to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2020 Marissa Periera Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2020 Zachary Emil, Andrew Robbertz, Richard Valente, Cole Winsor Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science

Enhanced Alternative Communications Using AI and NLP
2020 Andrew Ressler Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2020 Faye Gauthier Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Architectural Engineering
2020 Ryan Johnson, Paul Bonarrigo, Matthew Iaconis, Brendan McCann President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

Using Behavior-Change Strategies to Reduce Littering in Lambeth

WPI Advisors: John Orr and Paul Marrone
2020 Dung Ngoc Pham Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Outstanding Major Qualifying Project
2020 Emily Wilson Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2020 Dominic Cascino, Paulo Chow Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering

 Enhancing Virtual Reality Interactions with Modular Peripherals
2020 Nicholas Pacheco Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2020 Brandon Fox Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Industrial Engineering
2020 Payton Bielawski, Nathan Kaplan, Brian Preiss, Alyssa Sousa, Rebekah Vernon President's IQP Awards Honorable Mention Undergraduate

Developing a Sustainability Plan for Hammams in Morocco

WPI Advisors: Mohammed El Hamzaoui and Laura Roberts
2020 Johanna Whitwell Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

'Evaluating the Influence of Italian Fascism on Brazilian Integralism and the Vargas Regime' advisor: John Galante
2020 Christine Kobza Advisor of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Council
2020 Jordan Wynn
2020 Rediet Tegegne, Isabel Azevedo, Madison Cunniff, Van Harting, Rosa Reynoso Rhodes Scholar Rhodes Trust Undergraduate Environmental Engineering

Mitigating Mercury Pollution from Artisanal Mining
2020 Dung Pham Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
2020 Olivia Foster Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2020 Jagan Srinivasan Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Biology & Biotechnology

2020 Excellence in Teaching, Research, Advising, and Community Service Recognized at Honors Convocation
2020 Minh Anh Kieu Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“Insiders, Outsiders, and In-Between: Asian Nonimmigrant Experience in the American Context of Intersectional Racism" advisor: Jennifer McWeeny
2019 Samantha Lor Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2019 Shion Matsumoto Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2019 Suhas Srinivasan Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Second Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Data Science
2019 Chenjie Jiang Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Data Science
2019 Raghvendra V. Cowlagi Romeo L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical & Materials Engineering

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

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2019 Stephanie Pasha Advisor of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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2019 Brooke Dawson
2019 Ashley Choi Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2019 Ahmet Can Sabuncu Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty
2019 Olivia Gibbs, Samantha Lor, Ariana Rozen, Gavin Sabol President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

Upper Primary Science Curriculum Development for Physically Active Youth

WPI Advisors: Joseph Doiron and Bethel Eddy
2019 Erika Miyajima Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2019 Vincent C. Miller Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Interactive Media & Game Development
2019 Brian Zylich Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Second Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Computer Science
2019 Krushika Tapedia Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Data Science
2019 Sarah Wodin-Schwartz Romeo L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Mechanical & Materials Engineering

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

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2019 Hate Has No Place Here Diversity Program of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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2019 Lambda Chi Alpha and Phi Sigma Sigma Edwin Coghlin ’23 Award for Community Service Worcester Polytechnic Institute Student Group

Friendly House
2019 Peter DiPersio Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2019 Geoffrey A. Tompsett Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty
2019 Ellen Clarrissimeaux, Sawnaz Shaidani, Emily Staknis, Jeremiah Valero Araujo President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

Creating Methods for SINGA Lyon to Determine and Demonstrate their Impact

WPI Advisors: Peter Hansen and Fabienne Miller
2019 Rosa Reynoso Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2019 Gabriela Morales Castillo Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2019 Avery Brown Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Chemical Engineering