Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2017 Ana Giacoman Favela Charles O. Thompson Scholar Outstanding Member of the Class Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2015 Andrew Beaupre, Tyle Collins, Aras Nehir Keskin, Cody Woodard-Wallace Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering

"Design and Production of a 3-D Printed Wireless Hexapod"

Advisor: David Planchard
2017 Nicholas Shannon Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2023 Colby Frechette, Iris Morin Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Social Science & Policy Studies

Monitoring Ocean Microplastics Through Citizen Science"
Advisors: Laureen Elgert, George Heineman

 
2024 Alex Ballentine Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering
2010 Xiaoyun Wang & Chang Liu Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“The Saint Archer” (animated short film), advisor: Joshua Rosenstock
2018 Elizabeth Towle Student Employee of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Information Technology Services
1993 Ahmed S. Al-Baiti Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Decorative Art of Door Carving on Zanzibar and Pemba Islands," advisor: David Samson
2017 Abigail Elizabeth King Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2019 Erika Miyajima Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
1994 Derek W. Sykes Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
2005 Katrina Hildebrand Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Professional Writing
2013 Alexandra Clemente Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2008 Daniel J. Smaltz Two Towers Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2005 Martin D. Driggs Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2016 Victor W. Hu Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
2004 Brooke Buchholz Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2007 Fernando M. Olloqui Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2020 Karitta Zellerbach Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
2016 Montana Paige Myatt Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2008 Christina L. Ernst Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2015 Joseph Hill, Hailey Cambra, David Knutson, Sunny Sang Nguyen President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

A Case Study in Costa Rica: The Impacts of Refrigerants

Advisors: Professors Aarti Madan and Ryan Madan
2017 Christine Elizabeth Carbone National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Biochemistry at WPI
2021 Luigi Apollon, Kathryn Nippert, Emily Stead Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Psychological Science

Selegiline: The Effects of Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors on the Behavior and Physiology of Caenorhabditis Elegans
2002 Win D Cheung National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Biochemistry at Johns Hopkins
2022 Agathe Lasnier Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences
2010 Elizabeth L. Casey, Michael A. Ciampa, Cailah S. DeRoo President's IQP Awards Second Place Undergraduate

"Designing Safe Playgrounds for the Klong Toey Community"

Advisors:  T. Robertson and B. Servatius
2009 Samantha G. McGill Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Manufacturing Engineering

"Market and Business Analysis of Microthreads"

Advisors: Helen Vassallo, George Pins
2013 Aaron Benjamin Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

Tutor and MASH leader, Academic Resources Center
2023 Devon Poisson Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2016 Austin Hartshorn, Nicoli Liedtke, Joseph Petitti, Julian Pinzer Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Group Effort: Study Group Matching Service
2008 Andrew Marchese Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Origins of Emergent Order: The Inadequacy of Reductionism and the Complexity of Light Phenomena," advisor: David Spanagel
2018 Swarnadeep Majumder Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
1988 Christopher J. Buntil Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Give and Take: Anencephalic Babies as Organ Donors," advisor: Thomas A. Shannon
2017 Camryn Berry, Shanna Bonanno, Michelle Fleming, Deborah Fontanez, Talia Vaughn Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Are You the One? Familial Hypercholesterolemia in Worcester, MA
2019 Vincent C. Miller Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Interactive Media & Game Development
1994 Trevor J. Lewis Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2016 Jeffrey Letourneau The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Honorable Mention The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
1999 Anna Matzal Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2017 Siro Fritzmann, Elizabeth Hansen, Amber Munderville, Michael Sullivan, Tyler Turchiarelli Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences

"Projecting the Ultimate Loss of Catastrophic Events."

Advisors: Jon Abraham, Barry Posterro
2013 Erika DiLorenzo Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2002 Yakov Kronrod Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
2002 Nina K. Simon Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2011 Evald Muraj Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Humanities & Arts
2015 Nidhi M. Diwakar Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2016 Abigail Ismail Undergraduate
2010 Genevieve Vittori Boman Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
2021 Robbie Starr CARE (Courageous, Aware, Responsible, Exceptional) Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2014 Joseph James Szafarowicz National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Civil Engineering at WPI
2021 Connor Anderson, Achu Balasubramanian, Henry Poskanzer Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science

Studying and Visualizing Contagion on Graphs