Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2004 Patrick A. Hogan Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Dying by Inches: Imperialism and Asian Famines," advisor: Peter H. Hansen

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

1983 Martin Joseph Pierce Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2019 Vincent C. Miller Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Interactive Media & Game Development
1995 Maria A. Valencia Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
1996 Noah L. Weisleder Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2013 Ross S. Desmond Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2003 Nina K. Simon Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2002 Nina K. Simon Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2011 EvaldΒ Muraj Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Humanities & Arts
2010 Genevieve Vittori Boman Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
2015 Patrick Meehan, Ty Moquin, Zachary Weiland, Qindong Zhang Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Rain Gardens in Worcester

2011 Sarah Conlin Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Infamy: The Before After", Advisor James Cocola

2021 Zoe Januszewski Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute
1998 Quach B. Hai Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Self-Sponsoring Writing at WPI," advisor: John M. Trimbur

2021 Esther Boucher-Yip Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Humanities & Arts

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2024 Jake McDonough Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2022 Rose Noggle Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
1983 Marion S. Keeler Truman Scholarship Winner Harry S. Truman Foundation Undergraduate
1995 Matthew W. Heath Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2013 Nouran Abdelfattah Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2001 Anthony Zamarro Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
2004 Meghan E. Smith Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
2006 Andrew J. Law Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2011 KarenΒ Anundson Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2010 Manh-Hung Le Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2014 Bohao Li Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

β€œLee Teng-hui and a New Taiwanese Nationalism” Major: Computer Science. Advisor: Jennifer Rudolph

2009 Sarah Albrecht Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Motives for Change: Signac's Stylistic Shift," advisor: D. Samson

1993 Christopher G. McKeever Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"From an Alphabet to Strange and Interesting Designs: an Analysis" of Musical Notation," advisor: Douglas G. Weeks

2022 Munevver Elif Asar Sarikaya Sustainability Project Competition Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Office of Sustainability

Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Energy_intensive Industrial Drying by Novel Drying Methods

2024 Gabriel Espinosa Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2014 Anh Do Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2022 Juliette Spitael Advisor: Adryen Gonzales Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

β€œPrac in HUA: Advanced Contemporary Work,”

2002 Jack N. Waddell The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Winner The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Undergraduate Physics
2004 Amanda A. Roberts Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2023 Kirsten Roethel Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Interactive Media & Game Development
1998 Sashe Kanapathi Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2001 Keith Lepine Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2012 Andrei Ilyashenko Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
1995 James P. Naughton Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2008 Paul A. Moran Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2009 Daniel J. Asselin Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering
2020 Douglas Reilly Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate

Doctoral Dissertation

2008 Richard Pampuro Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Right within Anarchism," advisor: John Sanbonmatsu

1988 Marc J. Champagne Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"American Gas Mask Research During World War I," advisor: W.A. Bland Addison

2021 Jocelyn L. Mendes Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2019 Alex Puhalski Charles O. Thompson Scholar Outstanding Member of the Class Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
1994 Aaron E. Gower Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2018 Alexander Taglieri Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science

Peer Learning Assistant, Robotics Engineering

2019 Eli Frank Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Outstanding Major Qualifying Project