Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
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'"
1994 Philip M. Muller Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
1996 Tung L. Ng Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2010 Olufunmilayo Olatokunbo Adebayo Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2001 Marco Fontecchio Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2006 Kathleen M. Ferguson Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2008 Hilal Tetik Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate International & Global Studies
1973 Leonard J. Brzozowski Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
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
2024 Regina Valencia Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering
2020 Jared DeMaio Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering
2022 Meenakshi Kodali Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering
2018 Matt Ryder Teaching Assistant of the Year Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
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"
2014 Andrew Peter Wolff Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
1996 Shawn P. Brennan Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
2013 Kaung Myat Win Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2002 William Lucas Churchill Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2019 Rosanna S. Heidt Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2007 Megan Rose Slonski Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2008 Russell R. Kernan 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
2004 Heather C Maisey National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Biology at UC San Diego
2024 Kristin Lavoie Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Data Science
2021 Robbie Oleynick advisor: Laura Eckelman Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Scoring A Silent Sky"

2022 Hao Chen, Alexander Demirs, Kelsey Leach, Samuel Mather, John Winship President's IQP Awards Winner Undergraduate

Indoor Navigation for Blind Individuals Using Computer Vision & Machine Learning

Advisors: Ivan Mardilovich and Svetlana Nikitina
2023 Patrick J. Nieman Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2000 Florentin Groeli Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"British Jazz, or Jazz in Britain?," advisor: Douglas G. Weeks
2017 Raghvendra V. Cowlagi Sigma Xi Outstanding Junior Faculty Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Aerospace Engineering
1995 David J. Lamb Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2015 Cole Godzinski, Liana Nguyen, Alana Sher, Tyler Wilson Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Bean Town to Green Town
1995 David S. Ricketts Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2000 Aimee Fitzpatrick Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2003 Jessica M. McAlear Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2003 Heather J. Blackwell Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2011 Lisa Pugsley Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
2009 Indraneel Sircar Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2015 Lydia Wermer National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Mechanical Engineering at WPI
2019 Daniel Ottey Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2014 Charlotte Reames Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“Gender Roles in Morocco” Major: Biology and Biotechnology. Advisor: W. A. Bland Addison
2021 Nicholas J. Krichevsky Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
2010 Kassondra Hickey Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“Interactive Media Art,” advisor: Joseph Farbrook
2023 Josephine Kim Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate The Business School
1995 Patricia L. Panlillo Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Toni Morrison's Women: Strengths and Variations," advisor: Laura J. Menides
2012 Chelsea Ross Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2014 Thanacha Choopojcharoen Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
1998 Jonathan M. Reynolds Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2012 Zhen Chen Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2018 Yuwei Zhai Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate

Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation