Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2009 Jessie A. Brasefield, Douglas K. Tischer Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

"Exploring Apoptin's Anti-Cancer Ability:  Uncoupling Nucleocytoplasmic Shuttling and Multimerization"
2009 Matthew Dailey, Ilan Shomorony Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences

"Physically Unclonable Functions"

Advisors: William Martin, Berk Sunar
2008 Jorge Alejandro, Muzhtaba Islam, Thomas Niemczycki Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering

"Automation of a Telescope Imaging System"

Advisor: John Orr
2007 Brian Foley, Sean Hallinan, Hans Jensen Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering

"Non—Invasive Metal Detection"

Advisors: Stephen Bitar, Reinhold Ludwig, Sergey Makarov
2017 Catherine Sherman Charles O. Thompson Scholar Outstanding Member of the Class Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2017 Rachel M Connolly Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2017 Michael Sabbagh Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2017 Stephen J. Kmiotek Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Chemical Engineering

2017 Awards for Excellence in Teaching, Research, Advising, and Community Service Presented at Honors Convocation
2017 Tiantian Zhang Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Materials Process Engineering

Outstanding Post-Doctoral Fellow
2017 Cheng Deng Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Data Science
2017 Caitlin Kuhlman Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Second Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Computer Science
2017 Shadi Tasdighi Kalat Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2015 Will Bass, Michelle Kerns, Alex Kim, Aylin Padir Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Modern Vector Control: Genetically Modifying Anopheles gambiae
2014 Carol Garofoli Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Staff Member Worcester Polytechnic Institute Staff Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2017 Erin Morissette Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“Acoustics of the Clarinet and Spaulding Recital Hall,” advisor:  Douglas Weeks
2018 Hans Johnson Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2018 Thomas Leonard Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences
2018 Susmitha Wunnava Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Data Science
2018 Natalie Farny Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Biology & Biotechnology

2018 Awards for Excellence in Teaching, Research, Advising, and Community Service Presented at Honors Convocation
2017 Rishi Gupta, Amelia Papi, Derek Byrne, Nicky Kring Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Improved Irrigation for Jordan's Farms
2018 Lydia Shi Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate

Outstanding Post-Doctoral Fellow
2019 Toni J. Joy Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Industrial Engineering
2019 Steven Vandal Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards Second Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Physics
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