Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2018 Nima Rahbar Sigma Xi Outstanding Junior Faculty Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering

Outstanding Junior Faculty Researcher

2019 Olivia M. Leavitt Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2019 Anand Ramakrishnan Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Computer Science
2019 Mukund Khandelwal Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Data Science
2017 Kyle Morrison Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

"The CRISPR Enzyme Cpf1 as a Tool for Gene Regulation."

Advisor:  Destin Heilman

2018 Virginia Nunez Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Bioinformatics & Computational Biology

"Examination pf a Putative Cu+ Importer in Pseudomonas aeruginosa."

Advisor:  Jose Arguello

2017 Weijia Tao Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2019 Kristen Antunes Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“Local Knowledge and Climate Adaptation,” advisor: William San Martin

2019 Ayushka Shrestha CARE (Courageous, Aware, Responsible, Exceptional) Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2020 Emily Wilson Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2018 Kayleah Griffin Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2019 Alex Teixeira Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty
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 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

2021 Alp Sahin Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Second Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2021 Ardavasd Ardhaldjia Emerging Leader of the Year Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

IFC

2021 Zahra Noori Sustainability Project Competition Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Office of Sustainability

Experimental Study of Drying of Paper with Ultrasound Mechanism

2021 Olivia Lattanzi Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Humanities & Arts

Putting the “Other” Center Stage: Examining Modern Language and Nuances of Representation within Theatre

2021 Rose Noggle Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2021 Katherine Hudek Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2021 Hannah K. Schulz Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2022 Maya Flores Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2022 Adraesteia Wong Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science, Humanities & Arts
2022 Lindsay Ambrosino Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2022 Jack Grubbs Teaching Assistant of the Year Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Materials Science & Engineering
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2014 Douglas MacFarland Teaching Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Computer Science
2019 Alana Lue Chee Lip Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology

Peer Learning Assistant, Biology and Biotechnology

2016 Jessica Orr Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering

Peer Learning Assistant, Chemical Engineering

2017 Carolyn Detora Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering

Peer Learning Assistant, Great Problems Seminar

2023 Santiago Rivero Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2023 Brendyn Sang Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2023 Rodrigo Marcenaro Palacios Charles O. Thompson Scholar Outstanding Member of the Class Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2022 Michael Berwanger Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

“Photoredox Catalyzed C-H Acetoxylation Through Formal Hydride Abstraction”

Advisors: Stephen Kmiotek, Patricia Musacchio

2022 Benjamin Draper Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“Stair Capable Robotic Vacuum”

Advisors: Siavash Farzan, Jing Xiao

2023 Brianna Ankstitus, Martin Carrau, Malyssa Deranian, Heather McGlauflin, Cherylle Eliza Sabilla Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Industrial Engineering

"Manufacturing Process Standardization at Affordable Interior Systems"
Advisor: Walter Towner

 

2024 Cassidy Williams Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics

Peer Learning Assistant, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

2024 Stephanie Reis Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2024 Samantha Curtis Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Psychological Science
2015 Pamela Weathers Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty
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

2015 Ben Pulver Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2016 Elia Perez Luna Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2016 Jessica Orr Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2015 Kyle LeBorgne Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2016 Natalie Diltz Marietta E. Anderson Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2015 Ryan Mitchell Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering

Outstanding Master's Thesis

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