Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2018 Allyson Day Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology

"Physician Bias in Skin and Soft Tissue Infections and the Importance of Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs."

Advisor:  Jill Rulfs
2015 Sheila Patricia Werth National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Electrical and Electronic Engineering at University of Massachusetts Amherst
2023 David Datta Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Bioinformatics & Computational Biology

"Simulating Intestinal Microbiotic Interactions with Agent Based Modeling"
Advisors: Reeta Rao, Elizabeth Ryder

 
2014 Fioleda Prifti National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Materials Research – Biomaterials at WPI
2023 Alex Boucher Jr Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology

Structural Analysis of Kek1's Interaction with the EGFR"
Advisor:  Joe Duffy

 
1996 Rebecca A Kupcinskas National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Biomedical Engineering at WPI
2008 Daniel J. Smaltz Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2008 Kataryzna Koscielska, Oliver Salmon Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

"Mapping of HTLV-1 Tax Functional Domain Conferring Cellular Senescence"

Advisor: Destin Heilman
1997 Jeremy P. Olszewski Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences
2008 Indraneel Sircar Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2004 Iavor N. Trifonov Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
2016 Matthew Beardsley Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Outstanding Major Qualifying Project
2024 Alden Johnson Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2020 Olivia Gulezian, Evan LeBeau, Ken Snoddy, Ilana Zeldin Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Developing Patient-Centered Mobile Application for Understanding Fatigue in Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM)
2021 Caroline Johnson Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

Structure/Function Studies of EGFR Family and Kek1
2021 Olivia L. Lattanzi Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2006 Jennifer L. Schweers Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
2022 Lauren Paul Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2007 Eugene F. Douglass Jr. Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2010 Mortada Najem Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“Human Applicable Cloning: the Islamic Debate,” advisor: Bethel Eddy
2020 Ryan Eastwood Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science

Peer Learning Assistant, Robotics Engineering
2004 Helen A. Hanson The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Winner The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Undergraduate Physics
2009 Geoffrey I. Karasic Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
1994 Karl F. Dicker Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"A Comprehensive History of Black Baseball," advisor: Deborah Gray
2023 Ally Breen Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2012 Julie A Bliss National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Environmental Engineering at WPI
2023 Nicole Dombrowski Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics

"Feasibility of Using a PIPs Detector for Neutron Detection"
Advisors: Marcel Blais, David Medich


 
2014 Lucine Bahtiarian, Tyler Collins, Kathering Connors, Zachary Goddard President's IQP Awards Honorable Mention Undergraduate

"Maitland Garden Village Perseverance Park Redevelopment"

Advisors: Lorraine Higgins and Scott Jiusto
1994 Kevin P. Worden Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Humanities & Arts
2006 Amanda E. Lewis Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
2007 Eugene Douglass (Chemistry) Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

"Synthesis and Quantitative Testing of Electrochemical and Optical Sensors in Surface Formats"

Advisor: Grant McGimpsey
1998 Eric J. Perkins Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology, Humanities & Arts
2017 Caitlin Sara Burner Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2008 Nicholas L. Pelletier Two Towers Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2004 Kate E. Farb-Johnson Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2015 Ben Pulver Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2016 Allysa Grant Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2024 Lauren Eppinger Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Humanities & Arts
2020 Katherine Vasconcelos Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Professional Writing
2020 Samuel Hopkins Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“Development of Single-use Plastics in a Throwaway Culture,” advisor: Joseph Cullon
2017 Olivia Leavitt Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“Repeat and Refrain:  Making A Renaissance Villancico Modern,” advisor: Douglas Weeks
2021 Brooke Dawson, Hannah Gallagher, Amelia Harvey, Lilly Nardelli, Aram Soultanian Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering

Redesigned Shark Tagging
2016 Mario Alvarado Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

"Developing Fluorescent Aminoazobenzene Metal-Organic Frameworks"

Advisor: Shawn Burdette
2016 Courtney Jean Lewis Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2022 Stephen Price Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
2019 Hector Gonzalez Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
1996 Jeffrey D. Spaleta Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2008 Justine J. Roberts Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2014 Aaron Benjamin Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

Tutor and MASH leader in the Academic Resources Center
2010 Chad Mondor Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering, Chemistry & Biochemistry