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Year	Recipient	Name	Title	Awarded by	Type	Department	Details
2021	Andrew Wilzman	Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards	Second Place	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Graduate	Biomedical Engineering
2021	Ariana Cruz-Rivera	Crimson and Gray Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate
2021	Gelila D. Hailemariam, Tina Ly, Tam T. Tuong	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Architectural Engineering	Immersive Space: Using Kinetic Architecture Design to Regulate Human Emotional States
2021	Kevin Stern	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Mathematical Sciences	Equivalent Resistances of Polytope Networks
2021	Diego Vargas Blanco	Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Graduate	Biology & Biotechnology	Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation
2021	Alison Drapeau advisor: Lindsay Davis	Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate		"Proposing Universal Policy to De-Feminize Childcare"
2021	Kyle R. Lang	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate
2021	Samantha L. Wile	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Architectural Engineering
2021	Mairead E. O'Neill (CS), Ciara R. Young (CME), Matthew B. Adams (ME), Christopher R. Davenport (AREN)	President's IQP Awards	Winner		Undergraduate		Therapeutic Gardening Advisors: J. Scott Jiusto, Gbetonmasse Somasse
2021	Zoe Januszewski	Peer Learning Assistant of the Year	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Industrial Engineering	Peer Learning Assistant, Business Industrial Engineering
2021	Xin Zhang	Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards	Second Place	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Graduate	Data Science
2021	Noah Roberts	Crimson and Gray Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate
2021	Caroline Johnson	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Chemistry & Biochemistry	Structure/Function Studies of EGFR Family and Kek1
2021	Brooke Dawson, Hannah Gallagher, Amelia Harvey, Lilly Nardelli, Aram Soultanian	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Mechanical & Materials Engineering	Redesigned Shark Tagging
2021	Maria Martini	Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Graduate	Biology & Biotechnology	Outstanding Post-Doctoral
2021	Paul A. Pacheco Jr. & Vanessa Van DeMark advisor: Kristin Boudreau	Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities	Honorable Mention	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate		"Addressing the Gender Gap in STEM Education with Classroom Interventions"
2021	Olivia L. Lattanzi	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate
2021	Christian Faria	Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards	First Place	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Graduate	Materials Science & Engineering
2021	Bhanuj Jain	Student Employee of the Year	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	International House
2021	Robert Starr	Crimson and Gray Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate
2021	Jessica M. Kelly	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Bioinformatics & Computational Biology	Investigating the relationship between mRNA degradation rates and secondary structure in mycobacteria
2021	Catherine M. Hogan	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Physics	Computational Characterization of a Millimeter-Wave Heat Exchanger with AlN:Mo Cylindrical Susceptors
2021	Danielle Cote	Sigma Xi Outstanding Junior Faculty Award	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Faculty	Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2021	Sage Ortega-Shue advisor: Joseph Cullon	Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities	Honorable Mention	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate		"The Appropriation of Defensible Space"
2021	Sabrina T. Liu	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Robotics Engineering
2021	Walter Gerych	Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards	First Place	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Graduate	Data Science
2021	Food Recovery Network	Edwin Coghlin ’23 Award for Community Service		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Student Group
2021	Jillian Forauer	Crimson and Gray Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate
2021	Manon C. Miller	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Biology & Biotechnology	Characterizing the Importance of the CO1 SLiM in Regulating Kek5's Activity
2021	Nasim Mansuri	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Professional Writing	Best Practices for Adapting Manufacturing Documentation
2021	Alexander Wyglinski	Sigma Xi Outstanding Senior Faculty Award	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Faculty	Electrical & Computer Engineering
2021	Emma E. Lowry	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Interactive Media & Game Development
2021	Avery Harrison Closser	Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards	First Place	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Graduate	Learning Sciences & Technologies
2021	Robbie Starr	CARE (Courageous, Aware, Responsible, Exceptional) Award		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate
2021	Kyla Egenberger	Crimson and Gray Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate
2021	Elizabeth Butler	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Biomedical Engineering	The Research and Development of an Equine Endotracheal Y-Piece Positive End-Expiratory Pressure (EETYPEEP) Valve
2021	Luigi Apollon, Kathryn Nippert, Emily Stead	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Psychological Science	Selegiline: The Effects of Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors on the Behavior and Physiology of Caenorhabditis Elegans
2021	Connor Anderson, Achu Balasubramanian, Henry Poskanzer	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Computer Science	Studying and Visualizing Contagion on Graphs
2021	Jake A. Marko	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Biomedical Engineering
2021	Jacob Whitehill	National Science Foundation CAREER Award		National Science Foundation	Faculty	Computer Science
2021	Edward Jarvis	Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards	First Place	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Graduate	Physics
2021	Zoe Januszewski	Peer Learning Assistant of the Year	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2021	Samantha Grillo	Crimson and Gray Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate
2021	Kweku Sam Colecraft	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Chemical Engineering	MOF-5 Cap and Guest Interplay
2021	Mia Buccowich, Andrew Strauss	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Robotics Engineering	Partial Hand Prosthetic
2021	Esther Boucher-Yip	Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Faculty	Humanities & Arts	https://www.wpi.edu/library/archives-special-collections/history/awards/board-trustees-award-outstanding-teaching
2021	Jocelyn L. Mendes	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Chemistry & Biochemistry
2021	Kun-Ta Wu	National Science Foundation CAREER Award		National Science Foundation	Faculty	Physics
2021	Jakub Tomasz Kaminski	Graduate Research Innovation Exchange Awards	First Place	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Graduate	Robotics Engineering
2021	Kyle Gerlach	Teaching Assistant of the Year	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Graduate	Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering	- https://www.wpi.edu/news/announcements/kyle-gerlach-recognized-teaching-assistant-year-2021