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Year	Recipient	Name	Title	Awarded by	Type	Department	Details
2020	Olivia Foster	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Biomedical Engineering
2019	John Perkoski	Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate		Outstanding Major Qualifying Project
2022	Braden Foley	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Humanities & Arts, Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2001	Jennifer Persico	Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate		"The Jump From Resentment to Revolution," advisor: Deborah Gray
2012	Nathan Olivarez	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Electrical & Computer Engineering
2011	Elliot Neil Borenstein	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Interactive Media & Game Development
1979	Elaine C. O'Neill	Two Towers Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate
1997	Seychelle A. Ricard	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Biology & Biotechnology
2013	Amy E Loomis	National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships	Winner	National Science Foundation	Undergraduate		For Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University
2000	Brian A. Greenlaw	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Electrical & Computer Engineering
2017	Muping Chen	Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Graduate	Physics	Outstanding Master's Thesis
2003	Jacob M. Collins	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Chemistry & Biochemistry
2016	Nicolas Riart, Veronica Soto-Belloso, Valentina Zapata	Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate		Innovative Sanitation Solution for Informal Settlements In Quibdo, Colombia
2019	Zayla D. Schaeffer	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Chemical Engineering
2019	Kyle Foley, Walker Christie, Michael Kola and Natasha Honcharik	President's IQP Awards	Winner		Undergraduate		A Mobile Application for Locating Treatment and Support WPI Advisors: Thomas Balistrieri
2008	Daniel J. Smaltz	The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation	Winner	The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation	Undergraduate	Chemistry & Biochemistry
2022	Megan Cyr, Tovah Lockwood, Alyssa Magaha, Anne McNamara	President's IQP Awards	Winner		Undergraduate		Restoring Mrigadayavan Palace Advisors: Holly Ault and Stephan Sturm
2023	Kyra Tripp	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Chemistry & Biochemistry
1996	Mickey Lacroix	Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate		"A Critique of Husserlian Phenomenology," advisor: Bettina Bergo
2023	Eli Swai	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Chemical Engineering
1995	John D. Kedziora	Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate		"The Failure of Command," advisor: James E. Watters
2006	Kathleen M. Ferguson	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate
2013	Jacquelyn Eireann Tupper	Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Environmental Engineering
2008	Hilal Tetik	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	International & Global Studies
2014	Rosero Jose L. Ortiz	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate
1973	Leonard J. Brzozowski	Two Towers Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate
1998	Gregory Snow	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Physics
2001	Justin Lee Sierpinski	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Humanities & Arts, Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2006	Sanjayan Manivannan	Two Towers Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate
2018	Lindsay Lozeau	Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Graduate		Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation
2024	Regina Valencia	Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Aerospace Engineering
2006	Sanjayan Manivannan	The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation	Winner	The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation	Undergraduate	Mathematical Sciences, Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2021	Lauren A. Kaija	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Environmental Engineering
2023	Catherine Salvaggio	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	The Business School
1990	Bernard L. Dion	Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate		"The Risk of Slavery: Warning Through Structure in 'Benito Cereno'"
2007	Megan Rose Slonski	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate
1994	Philip M. Muller	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2008	Russell R. Kernan	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Electrical & Computer Engineering
1996	Tung L. Ng	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Electrical & Computer Engineering
2017	Alicia Kimberly Aquino	National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships	Winner	National Science Foundation	Undergraduate		For Chemical Engineering at WPI
2010	Olufunmilayo Olatokunbo Adebayo	Two Towers Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate
2004	Heather C Maisey	National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships	Winner	National Science Foundation	Undergraduate		For Biology at UC San Diego
2001	Marco Fontecchio	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2024	Kristin Lavoie	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Data Science
2020	Allison Ross	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Biology & Biotechnology
2020	Cosette Domkofski	Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate		“Those Who Endure,” advisor: Joseph Aguilar
2019	Kamryn Spinelli	Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate		“The Jewish Exodus from Morocco: Gauging the Social Trauma,” advisor: Mohamed Brahimi
2021	Kamryn P. Spinelli	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Mathematical Sciences
2006	Amanda J. Tarbet	Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate		"Multimodal Tensions in the Graphic Novel," advisor: Ruth Smith
1985	Charles Champagne	Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate		"Konrad Adenauer Erster Kanzler der Bundesrepublik," and "Ahnlichkeiten zwichen der Franzozischen Revolution und der Deutschen Revolution von 1848"