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Year	Recipient	Name	Title	Awarded by	Type	Department	Details
2024	Elizabeth Healy	Crimson and Gray Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate
2024	Michael Vasconcellos, Keana Bruce, and Annalise Russo. advisor: David Ibbett	Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate		Creative Arts: “Dark Energy."
2024	Jake McDonough	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Chemistry & Biochemistry
2024	Gabriel Espinosa	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2024	Elijah Kennedy	Crimson and Gray Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Graduate
2024	Sarah Roberge. advisor: Joe Aguilar	Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities	First Runner Up	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate		Creative Arts: “Bystander of Time"
2024	Lauren Abraham	Peer Learning Assistant of the Year	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Biology & Biotechnology	Peer Learning Assistant, Biology and Biotechnology
2024	Olivia Deckers	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
2024	Stephanie Steriti	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2024	Jamal Yagoobi	Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Faculty	Mechanical & Materials Engineering	2024 Annual Awards Honor Faculty and Teaching Assistants Award Citation
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
2024	Gabirella Rios	Crimson and Gray Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate
2024	Karen Troy	Chair's Exemplary Faculty Prize		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Faculty	Biomedical Engineering	Read award citation here. 2024 Annual Awards Honor Faculty and Teaching Assistants
2024	Mikaela Enax	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Biomedical Engineering
2024	Calvin Page	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Robotics Engineering
2024	Megan Tupaj	Crimson and Gray Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate
2024	Greg Lewin	Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Faculty	Robotics Engineering	Read Award citation here. 2024 Annual Awards Honor Faculty and Teaching Assistants
2023	Eli Swai	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Chemical Engineering
2023	Catherine Salvaggio	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	The Business School
2023	Caitlin Veltrup	Charles O. Thompson Scholar Outstanding Member of the Class	Honorable Mention	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate
2023	Stefanie Beaudry, Vanessa Bussiere, Sarah Johnson, Athina Theofilou	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering	"Net Zero and Resilient Housing for Heat Waves" Advisors: Soroush Farzin, Shichao Liu
2023	Dante Coccagnia, Domenic DiCenso, Mary Suckow	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	The Business School	"Evaluating Quality, Environmental Impact, and Economic Sustainability in Support of Benchmarking Efforts at Twelve Guns Brewing" Advisors: Edward Gonsalves, Aaron Sakulich
2023	Nora Smith. Advisor: Joseph Aguilar	Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Mechanical & Materials Engineering	Creative Arts: "Burnout."
2023	Angela Rodriguez	Romeo L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Faculty	Psychological Science	Document 2023 Moruzzi citation - Rodriguez.pdf (125.36 KB) Read the Citation
2023	Patrick J. Nieman	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2023	Josephine Kim	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	The Business School
2023	Paula Gibbons	Charles O. Thompson Scholar Outstanding Member of the Class	Honorable Mention	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate
2023	Jeffrey Marsh	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Chemistry & Biochemistry	"Copper Homeostasis in Salmonella enterica: cloning, expression, and purification of CopA transporter and CueO cuproprotein" Advisor: José Argüello
2023	Jessica Wang	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Mathematical Sciences	"Tiling of Prime and Composite Kirchhoff Graphs "
2023	Ben Kresge. Advisor: John Sanbonmatsu	Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Computer Science	Scholarship: "Having it Both Ways: Can I be a Moral Omnivore?"
2023	Lindsay Davis and Rebecca Moody	Romeo L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Faculty	Humanities & Arts	Document 2023 Moruzzi citation - Lindsay Davis and Rebecca Moody.pdf (287.3 KB) Read the Citation
2023	Stephen Price	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Computer Science
2023	Olivia Atkins	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Biology & Biotechnology
2023	Ronak Wani	Charles O. Thompson Scholar Outstanding Member of the Class	Honorable Mention	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate
2023	David Datta	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Bioinformatics & Computational Biology	"Simulating Intestinal Microbiotic Interactions with Agent Based Modeling" Advisors: Reeta Rao, Elizabeth Ryder
2023	Rachel Chan, Mackenzie Damon, Giulia Herszage Rocha, Kelly McDonald, Madelyn Thrasher	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Mechanical & Materials Engineering	: "Device to Aid in Mechanical Ventilation of Obese Patients" Advisor: Kristen Billiar, Joseph Fehribach
2023	Patrick J. Healey. Advisor: Kevin Lewis	Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities	Honorable Mention	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Mechanical & Materials Engineering	Creative Arts: "P.J. Haus."
2023	Jack Adiletta	The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation	Winner	The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation	Undergraduate	Electrical & Computer Engineering, Data Science
2023	Alex Friedman	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Computer Science
2023	Ally Breen	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Biology & Biotechnology
2023	Songbai Ji	Sigma Xi Outstanding Senior Faculty Award		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Faculty	Biomedical Engineering
2023	Alex Boucher Jr	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Biology & Biotechnology	Structural Analysis of Kek1's Interaction with the EGFR" Advisor: Joe Duffy
2023	Nicole Dombrowski	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Physics	"Feasibility of Using a PIPs Detector for Neutron Detection" Advisors: Marcel Blais, David Medich
2023	Olivia Spielberger. Advisor: Roshanak Bigonah	Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities	Honorable Mention	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Biology & Biotechnology	Creative Arts: "Visual Persuasion, Ocean Empathy."
2023	Cindy Trac	Crimson and Gray Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate
2023	Jeannine Coburn	National Science Foundation CAREER Award		National Science Foundation	Faculty	Biomedical Engineering
2023	Robert Oleynick	Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Electrical & Computer Engineering
2023	Matthew Dzwil	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Data Science