Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2016 Caitlin Marie Swalec Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
2016 Kelly Beisswanger Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2010 Aakrit Bhakhri Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

β€œMuslim Separatism and Identity in India: Aftermath of the Partition of 1947,” advisor: Ruth Smith

2014 Arman Uygur Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering

Tutor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

2015 John Cotter, Victor Hu, Alejandro Miranda, Hannah Reinertsen President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

Evaluation of the Feasibility of Establishing a Waste Collection Facility to Serve the Community of Cantera

Advisors: Lauren Mathews and Tina-Marie Ranalli

1994 Shaun P. Heaney Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"The Construction of New Union Station: A Product of Worcester's Grade Crossing Problem," advisor: James P. Watters

2011 Lydia George Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2013 Chuqiao Yang Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2018 Charles Lovering Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
1998 Eric F. Pauly Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2017 Emily Baker, Matthew Bisson, Scott Rementer Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Speaking to Success

2001 Jonathan Moussa Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences, Physics
2019 Jessica R. Locke Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Environmental Engineering
2012 Andrei Ilyanshenko Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
2007 Diana M. Otalvaro-Gutierrez Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
2017 Brandon Clark The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Winner The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Undergraduate Chemical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering
2008 Charles A.Gammal III Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2017 Christopher Pierce Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics

"Removal of Accidental Degeneracy in Cubic Quantum Dots."

Advisor: L. Ramdas Ram-Mohan

2017 Ben Pulver National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Biomedical Engineering at WPI

2003 Jeffrey M Savard National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon

2010 Patrick DeSantis, James Montgomery, Sean Levesque President's IQP Awards Second Place Undergraduate

"An Electronic Interface to Aid in Learning How to Play a Musical Instrument"

Advisors: F. Bianchi and A. Wyglinski

2020 Natalie Bloniarz Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Interactive Media & Game Development
2009 Daniel Tennant, Julia Berg, Joseph Strong Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Interactive Media & Game Development

"Petrified"

Advisor: Robert W. Lindeman

2021 Bhanuj Jain Student Employee of the Year Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate International House
2022 Natalie Mohn Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate The Business School
2016 Katherine R. Picchoine Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2023 Robert Oleynick Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
1989 Sharon A. Savage Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"How the Organic and Mechanistic Conceptions of Life Apply to the Body and to Medicine," advisor: Iris Young

2022 Benjamin Beliveau, Lillian Taylor, and Delaney Tedtsen Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Environmental Engineering

β€œLead and Copper Corrosion in Drinking Water Systems 

Advisor: Jeanine Dudley

2016 Charles Frick Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Outstanding Major Qualifying Project

2015 Kyle J. Hudgins Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2017 Daniel Shrives, Grayson Baum Strage Innovation Award First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

β€œRowing Telemetry System (RTS)” RTS is a modified oarlock capable of collecting performance metrics allowing coaches to make the changes in rowers’ forms that win races. 

2014 Weifan Liu Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2015 Nolan Bell, Dylan Felty, Chenggu Wang, Katherine Williamson Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Rooftop Rainwater Collection System on the Innovation Studio

1996 Deborah J. Fraser Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2018 Ankur Gupta Charles O. Thompson Scholar Outstanding Member of the Class Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
1999 Jessica T. Sands Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Humanities & Arts
2002 Lauren Elizabeth Wojtkun Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Humanities & Arts
2012 Sarah Mattessich Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
1989 Kim E. Cloutier Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2009 Ilan Shomorony Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mathematical Sciences
2018 Abigail Hanson, Joshua Mace, Frederick Metters, Nicole Sherlock Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering

"Design of a Topical Antimicrobial Peptide Delivery Vehicle for the Treatment of Acne Vulgaris."

Advisor: Marsha Rolle

2014 Jennifer Lynn Moutinho National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Environmental Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology

2016 Reynaldo Duran Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Painting a Bridge Between Past and Future," advisor: W.A. Bland Addison and Kristin Boudreau

2008 Neal Orman Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science

"GPU Optimization of an Existing Free-Viewpoint Video System"

Advisor: Robert Lindeman

2021 Jillian Forauer Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2022 Nick Tomasetti, Nico Alvarado, Ben Mason, Anonymous Sustainability Project Competition Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Office of Sustainability

Using Media to Influence Agricultural Perceptions on Climate Change

2017 Ethan Coeytaux, Cameron Crook, Alexandre Pauwels, Hugh Whelan Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

5-Axis 3D Printing

 

2004 Laura E. Baldassari Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Flute Music of the Classical Period," advisor: Douglas G. Weeks

2023 Abigail Leonardi Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering