Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2004 Stephanie C. Thomas Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering, Chemistry & Biochemistry
2007 Diana M. Otalvaro-Gutierrez Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
2020 Natalie Bloniarz Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Interactive Media & Game Development
2016 Kelly Beisswanger Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2008 Charles A.Gammal III Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2021 Bhanuj Jain Student Employee of the Year Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate International House
2015 John Cotter, Victor Hu, Alejandro Miranda, Hannah Reinertsen President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

Evaluation of the Feasibility of Establishing a Waste Collection Facility to Serve the Community of Cantera

Advisors: Lauren Mathews and Tina-Marie Ranalli

2017 Ben Pulver National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Biomedical Engineering at WPI

2003 Jeffrey M Savard National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon

2022 Natalie Mohn Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate The Business School
2010 Patrick DeSantis, James Montgomery, Sean Levesque President's IQP Awards Second Place Undergraduate

"An Electronic Interface to Aid in Learning How to Play a Musical Instrument"

Advisors: F. Bianchi and A. Wyglinski

2009 Daniel Tennant, Julia Berg, Joseph Strong Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Interactive Media & Game Development

"Petrified"

Advisor: Robert W. Lindeman

2023 Robert Oleynick Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2022 Benjamin Beliveau, Lillian Taylor, and Delaney Tedtsen Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Environmental Engineering

β€œLead and Copper Corrosion in Drinking Water Systems 

Advisor: Jeanine Dudley

2017 Daniel Shrives, Grayson Baum Strage Innovation Award First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

β€œRowing Telemetry System (RTS)” RTS is a modified oarlock capable of collecting performance metrics allowing coaches to make the changes in rowers’ forms that win races. 

2015 Nolan Bell, Dylan Felty, Chenggu Wang, Katherine Williamson Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Rooftop Rainwater Collection System on the Innovation Studio

2010 Aakrit Bhakhri Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

β€œMuslim Separatism and Identity in India: Aftermath of the Partition of 1947,” advisor: Ruth Smith

2018 Ankur Gupta Charles O. Thompson Scholar Outstanding Member of the Class Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
1994 Shaun P. Heaney Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"The Construction of New Union Station: A Product of Worcester's Grade Crossing Problem," advisor: James P. Watters

2011 Lydia George Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2013 Chuqiao Yang Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2018 Abigail Hanson, Joshua Mace, Frederick Metters, Nicole Sherlock Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering

"Design of a Topical Antimicrobial Peptide Delivery Vehicle for the Treatment of Acne Vulgaris."

Advisor: Marsha Rolle

1998 Eric F. Pauly Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2001 Jonathan Moussa Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences, Physics
2012 Sarah Mattessich Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2012 Andrei Ilyanshenko Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
1989 Kim E. Cloutier Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2016 Katherine R. Picchoine Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2009 Ilan Shomorony Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mathematical Sciences
2021 Robert Starr Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2014 Jennifer Lynn Moutinho National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Environmental Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology

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"

2016 Charles Frick Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Outstanding Major Qualifying Project

2016 Reynaldo Duran Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Painting a Bridge Between Past and Future," advisor: W.A. Bland Addison and Kristin Boudreau

2008 Chelsea Bierkan, Courtney Rheault, Katharine Woodman Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering

"Adaptive Reuse Plan for the Worcester County Courthouse"

Advisor: Leonard ALbano

2023 Matthew Dzwil Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Data Science
2023 Madison Gass, Grace Jolin, Isabel Nearing, Kathryn Woodland Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering

"Detecting Ice Nucleation in Supercooled Red Blood Cell Samples"
Advisors: Sakthikumar Ambady, Ahmet Can Sabuncu

 

1989 Sharon A. Savage Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"How the Organic and Mechanistic Conceptions of Life Apply to the Body and to Medicine," advisor: Iris Young

2018 Cielo Sharkus Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2015 Kyle J. Hudgins Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2014 Weifan Liu Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2004 David J. LeRay 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
1994 Matthew W. Martin Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2003 Ann C. Skulas The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Winner The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
1996 Elena Florintsev Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
1999 Isaac B. Rutel Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
2002 Rocco William Moretti Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2006 James Michael McHugh Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2020 Chester Barber, Timothy Esworthy, Sydney Palmer Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering

Tree Seedling Planter

2007 Colin J. DeGraf Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics