Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2007 Gabriel Baldwin, Benjamin Childs, Carolyn Hunter, Victoria Urrea President's IQP Awards Third Place Undergraduate

Developing a Strategy to Improve Solar Home System Sustainability in Rural Thailand
2020 Kyle Wood Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2016 Brandon Clark The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Honorable Mention The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Undergraduate Chemical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering
2009 Richard Pampuro Undergraduate Chemical Engineering

"Photoresist Derived Carbon as a Substratum for Nerve Cell Culture"

Advisor: Susan Zhou
2017 Natalie Wellen Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences

"Modeling Over the Counter Derivative Trading with and without Central Clearing Parties."

Advisor: Stephan Sturm
2017 Pedro de Vasoncellos Oporto Charles O. Thompson Scholar Outstanding Member of the Class Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2021 Nasim Mansuri Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Professional Writing

Best Practices for Adapting Manufacturing Documentation
2017 Zhehao Zhu Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2022 Caitlin Kuzma Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Industrial Engineering
2013 Zijian "Donnie" Xia Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

Peer Learning Assistant, Chemistry
2023 May Flores Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2024 Trevor Bush Two Towers Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2010 Mark Hayden Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Transmarginal Inhibition in Gravity’s Rainbow,” advisor: Lance Schachterle
1994 Scott J. Higgins Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Who Am I? The Problem of Identity," advisor: Bettina Bergo
2014 Damien J. Cabral Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2011 Evald Muraj Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2015 Arial Goldner, Travis Roth, Gunnar Tornberg, Alexandra Wheeler, Jackson Whitehouse Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

A Renewable Energy Program for Bishop Kodji, Nigeria
2013 Kun Peng Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2011 Jeffrey C. Marrion Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2018 Amanda Lowther Charles O. Thompson Scholar Outstanding Member of the Class Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2015 Lina Tran Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
1998 Emma Palmacci Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2017 Sarah Kaptur National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Cell Biology at Brown University
2001 Paul Laplume Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2003 Matthew J Streeter National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Computer Science at Stanford
2004 Robert J. Degon Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2012 Adam Cadwallader, Victoria Hewey, Evren Simsek, Santiago Isaza President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

"Supporting Urban Beekeeping Livelihood Strategies in Cape Town"

Advisors: Scott Jiusto and Steve Taylor 
2020 Ramona Bago Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2009 Elisabeth Beinke, Keilin Bickar, Joshua Doyle, Alexander Schwartz Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Interactive Media & Game Development

"Memory Dash - a Multiplayer iPhone Game"

Advisor: David Finkel
2018 Katharine Dunphy, Sophia Gomarlo, Katherine Moore Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Analyzing Fast-Track Effectiveness at ReadyMED Plus Worcester."

Advisor:  Renata Konrad

Sponsor:  Reliant Medical Group

 
2007 Nate Piper Student Employee of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Undergraduate Admissions
2022 Alyssa Moore Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2023 Adam Bartlett Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2022 Adraesteia Wong Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Humanities & Arts

“Never Set in Stone: The Creative Process in Transformative Fiction”   

Advisor: Kate McIntyre
2024 John Edward Carrotta Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Interactive Media & Game Development
1989 Paul F. Wojiak Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Obstinacy and Naïveté: The Organized Labor Movement in Worcester, Massachusetts, During the 1930's," advisor: Robert L. Kolesar
2005 Brian L. Ellis Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
2002 Nina K. Simon Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
1994 Trevor J. Lewis Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2011 Evald Muraj Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Humanities & Arts
2016 Celeste Marsan Undergraduate
1999 Anna Matzal Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2010 Genevieve Vittori Boman Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
2013 Erika DiLorenzo Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2014 Joseph James Szafarowicz National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Civil Engineering at WPI
2018 Faith Kurtz Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2002 Yakov Kronrod Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
2016 Benjamin Huchley Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Online Avatars: An Expression of the User's Self," advisor: Jennifer McWeeny
2020 Nicolas Amato, Zachary Huaman, Alicea Hyland, Jacob Koslow, Jordan Pickunka, Jack Procaccini, Saiyab Ranjit, William Roe, Jarod Romankiw, David Santamaria, Jake Scarponi, Braden St. Jacques, Jake Tappen Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering

Design, Analysis, and Test of a High-Powered Model Rocket
2003 Ravi Srinivasan The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Winner The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences