Award Recipients
| Year | Recipient | Name | Title | Awarded by | Type | Department | Details |
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| 2023 | Frederick Bianchi | Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Humanities & Arts | |||
| 2023 | Sirut Buasai, Jason Dykstra, Dillon McCarthy, Cindy Trac | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Data Science | Advancing Diffusion Models for Human Activity Recognition" |
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| 2023 | Tara Desrochers, Erin Murphey, Bailey Norris, Justin Weintraub | President's IQP Awards | Finalist | Undergraduate | Melbourne Project Center: Telling our Story through Engaging Media Stephen M. McCauley, Lorraine D. Higgins |
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| 2023 | Tyler Guertin | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Aerospace Engineering | |
| 2023 | Julia Sheats | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mechanical & Materials Engineering | |
| 2023 | Jeanine Skorinko | Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Faculty | Social Science & Policy Studies | ||
| 2023 | Claire Behning, Amanda Holbrook | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Social Science & Policy Studies, Psychological Science | "Exploring the Effect of CBD on C. elegans with 6-OHDA-induced Parkinson's Disease to Determine Potential Therapeutic Effects " |
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| 2023 | Abigail Boafo, Randy Huang, Alexander Sun | President's IQP Awards | Finalist | Undergraduate | The Taiwanese Backpacker: In Search of Purpose Jefferson Alex Sphar, Wen-Hua Du, Grant A. Burrier |
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| 2023 | Michael Beskid | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Aerospace Engineering | |
| 2023 | Ashton Lyon | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mechanical & Materials Engineering | |
| 2023 | Jon Abraham | Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Mathematical Sciences | |||
| 2023 | Caylee Butler, Slater Campbell, Trevor Parks, Charles Snow | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Electrical & Computer Engineering | "Ropeless Lobster System: Resurfacing Oceanic Locator" |
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| 2023 | Isabelle Benson-Clarke, Ben Breslov, Amitai Erfanian, Zoe Goodman, Theo Winter | President's IQP Awards | Finalist | Undergraduate |
Svetlana Nikitina, Ivan P. Mardilovich |
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| 2023 | Frederick "Forrest" Miller | Peer Learning Assistant of the Year | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mathematical Sciences | Peer Learning Assistant, Mathematical Sciences |
| 2023 | Catherine Reynolds | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemistry & Biochemistry | |
| 2023 | Spencer Francis | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Physics | |
| 2023 | Elizabeth Ryder | Chair's Exemplary Faculty Prize | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Biology & Biotechnology | |||
| 2023 | Adele Brochu, Evan Rios, Kali Sander, Caitlin Strzegowski | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Environmental Engineering | "Stormwater Management and Design in Framingham, Massachusetts" |
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| 2023 | Andrew Cunningham | Peer Learning Assistant of the Year | Honorable Mention | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mechanical & Materials Engineering | Peer Learning Assistant, Great Problem Seminar |
| 2023 | Samantha Havel | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Biomedical Engineering | |
| 2023 | Anastasia Mina | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Professional Writing | |
| 2023 | Markis Nemitz | National Science Foundation CAREER Award | National Science Foundation | Faculty | Robotics Engineering | ||
| 2023 | Sophia Togneri | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Humanities & Arts | "Integrating Herbal Medicine into Modern Healthcare Systems: A Case Study on Artemisia annua in China, the US, and Kenya" |
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| 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 | ||
| 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" |
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| 2023 | Tian Guo | National Science Foundation CAREER Award | National Science Foundation | Faculty | Computer Science | ||
| 2023 | Kyra Tripp | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemistry & Biochemistry | |
| 2023 | Kalina Bonofiglio | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | ||
| 2023 | Samantha DeFrancesco | Charles O. Thompson Scholar Outstanding Member of the Class | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | ||
| 2023 | Michael Beskid, Ryan Brunelle, Calista Carrignan, Robert Devlin, Toshak Patel, Kofi Sarfo | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Aerospace Engineering | "Design and Testing of an Amphibious AUV" |
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| 2023 | Lena Dias, Harmoni Larrabee, Mitchel Tanguay | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Interactive Media & Game Development | Neurotype Café" |
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| 2023 | Jillian Crandall. Advisor: Despoina Giapoudzi | Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Biology & Biotechnology | Performing Arts: “Directing is Like a FishBowl: A Project Portfolio.”
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| 2022 | Meenakshi Kodali | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Aerospace Engineering | |
| 2022 | Catherine F. Whittington | Romeo L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Faculty | Biomedical Engineering | ||
| 2022 | Tyreese James | Crimson and Gray Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | |||
| 2022 | Hao Chen, Alexander Demirs, Kelsey Leach, Samuel Mather, John Winship | President's IQP Awards | Winner | Undergraduate | Indoor Navigation for Blind Individuals Using Computer Vision & Machine Learning Advisors: Ivan Mardilovich and Svetlana Nikitina |
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| 2022 | Cooper Bennet | Peer Learning Assistant of the Year | Honorable Mention | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Computer Science | Peer Learning Assistant, Robotics Engineering |
| 2022 | William Cross, Adrian Curless, Alexander Simoneau | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Computer Science | “Ultrafork and Focused KSM: Tools for Memory Optimization in Duplicate Containers” Advisor: Craig Shue |
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| 2022 | Martin Milanzi | Kalenian Award | Second Place | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | ||
| 2022 | Kaamil Lokhandwala | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Computer Science, Interactive Media & Game Development | |
| 2022 | Justin Moy | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Bioinformatics & Computational Biology | |
| 2022 | Zoe Januszewski | Crimson and Gray Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Graduate | |||
| 2022 | Abigael Kihu, Heather McGlauflin, Julia Toplyn, Kyra Tripp | President's IQP Awards | Finalist | Undergraduate | Digital Preservation of Artisanal Culture in the Fez Medina Advisors: Joseph Doiron and Mohammed El Hamzaoui |
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| 2022 | Isabelle Cordova | Peer Learning Assistant of the Year | Honorable Mention | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | International & Global Studies | Peer Learning Assistant, Psychology |
| 2022 | Collin Broderick, Adrianna Staszewska | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Data Science | “Defect Detection Automation for Metal Additive Manufacturing with Deep Learning” Advisors: Diana Lados, Rodica Neamtu |
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| 2022 | Yihao Zheng, Yuxiang Liu | Kalenian Award | First Place | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Faculty | ||
| 2022 | Darius Luo | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Architectural Engineering | |
| 2022 | Adrian Orszulak | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Biology & Biotechnology |