Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2020 Faith Kurtz Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2020 Stephanie Salerno and Jacquelyn Valsamis Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Environmental Engineering

An Environmental Analysis of Recreational Cannabis Cultivation and Processing
2020 Sarah Boermeester, Marissa Gonzales, Katy Jessop, Griffin St. Onge President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

Assessing Opportunities to Reduce the Environmental Impacts of Brewery Waste in Albania

WPI Advisors: Robert Hersh and Robert Kinicki
2020 Danielle Snider Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate

MS Thesis
2020 Nazanin Beigi Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2020 Katherine Gomes Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2020 Marissa Bennett Teaching Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Computer Science
2020 James Andon, Katherine Vasconcelos Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

BaNCE: A Simplified Model for in vivo Non-Continuous Evolution
2020 Amanda Lowther Two Towers Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2020 Olivia Hunker Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2020 Adam Collins, William Kopellas, David Simpson Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Architectural Engineering

Analyzing the Built Environment and Human Behavior through the Creation of an Immersive Space
2020 Alejandra Garza, Dante Knight, Nancy Nguyen, James Witt President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

Improving Emergency Preparedness in Monte Verde Costa Rica

WPI Advisors: R.Creighton Peet and William San Martin
2020 Daniel Ruiz Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate

MS Thesis
2020 Michael Timko Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty Chemical Engineering

France

WPI Professor Receives Fulbright Scholar Award to Conduct Research on Biofuels in France
2020 Kyra Bresnahan Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2020 Katherine Handy Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2020 Kaoutar Diouri Teaching Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2020 Rosa R. Reynoso, Van W. Harting, Isabel M. Azevedo, Madison E. Cunniff, Rediet Merra Tegegne Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering, Social Science & Policy Studies

Co-Designing for Gold Mining Safety
2020 Christopher Rene Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2020 Jessica Hatt Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2020 Mikel Matticoli, Lucas Varella President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

Jazz History Database Global Contributor Project

WPI Advisors: Keith Zizza
2020 Jeannie Colburn Sigma Xi Outstanding Junior Faculty Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Biomedical Engineering

Outstanding Junior Faculty Researcher
2020 Cindy Trac
2020 Faria Kader Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2020 Olivia Hunker Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

Fabrication and Characterization of Asymmetric Phosphoinositide-containing Vesicles
2020 Brooke Honzel Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2020 Fang Han Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2020 Michael Clements, Leo Gross, Elizabeth Kirschner, Zetta Rajaniemi President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

Memorialization of the Spaç Labor Camp: An Investigation into Digital Methods

WPI Advisors: Robert Kinicki and Robert Hersh
2020 Scarlet Shell Sigma Xi Outstanding Junior Faculty Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Biology & Biotechnology

Outstanding Junior Faculty Researcher
2020 Andrew Clark National Science Foundation CAREER Award National Science Foundation Faculty Electrical & Computer Engineering
2020 Janet Begin Richardson Goat's Head Award for Lifetime Commitment to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2020 Marissa Periera Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2020 Zachary Emil, Andrew Robbertz, Richard Valente, Cole Winsor Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science

Enhanced Alternative Communications Using AI and NLP
2020 Andrew Ressler Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2020 Faye Gauthier Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Architectural Engineering
2020 Ryan Johnson, Paul Bonarrigo, Matthew Iaconis, Brendan McCann President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

Using Behavior-Change Strategies to Reduce Littering in Lambeth

WPI Advisors: John Orr and Paul Marrone
2020 Dung Ngoc Pham Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Outstanding Major Qualifying Project
2020 Emily Wilson Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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 Payton Bielawski, Nathan Kaplan, Brian Preiss, Alyssa Sousa, Rebekah Vernon President's IQP Awards Honorable Mention Undergraduate

Developing a Sustainability Plan for Hammams in Morocco

WPI Advisors: Mohammed El Hamzaoui and Laura Roberts
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
2020 Christine Kobza Advisor of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Council
2020 Jordan Wynn
2020 Rediet Tegegne, Isabel Azevedo, Madison Cunniff, Van Harting, Rosa Reynoso Rhodes Scholar Rhodes Trust Undergraduate Environmental Engineering

Mitigating Mercury Pollution from Artisanal Mining
2020 Dung Pham Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
2020 Olivia Foster Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2020 Jagan Srinivasan Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Biology & Biotechnology

2020 Excellence in Teaching, Research, Advising, and Community Service Recognized at Honors Convocation
2020 Minh Anh Kieu Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“Insiders, Outsiders, and In-Between: Asian Nonimmigrant Experience in the American Context of Intersectional Racism" advisor: Jennifer McWeeny