Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Type Department Details
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

2016 Nayantara Chaisson
2010 William Trask Alumni
2003 Jonathan Bayreuther, Joel Lofgren, Smriti Shrestha President's IQP Awards First Place Undergraduate

"Building a Cyclist's Comfort Guide"

Advisor: Holly Ault

2004 Chase Cote, Kevin Monahan and Steve Toddes President's IQP Awards Second Place Undergraduate

"The Development of an Irrigation System in the Village Of Nong Din Dam"

Advisors: Joel Brattin and Steve Weininger

2008 Steve H. Shin, Natasha L. Deschene, Daniel M. Morehouse, Max A. Kuhns President's IQP Awards Second Place Undergraduate

"Evaluating the Effectiveness of Hands-On-History at the Tower of London"

Advisors: Peter Hansen, Stanley Selkow

2011 Valerie Anne Boutin, Caitlin Elyse Butler, Samuel James Kesseli, Mary Clare McCorry President's IQP Awards First Place Undergraduate

"Improving Water and Sanitation in Rural Namibian Communities"

Advisors: I. Shockey and U. Brisson

2017 Zachary Ligham Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2018 Ana Restrepo Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2019 Samantha Lor Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2019 Brooke Dawson
2019 Olivia Gibbs, Samantha Lor, Ariana Rozen, Gavin Sabol President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

Upper Primary Science Curriculum Development for Physically Active Youth

WPI Advisors: Joseph Doiron and Bethel Eddy

2021 Caroline E. Dalton (CE), Daniel C. Dietrich (ME), Meng Lian (CME), Brooklynn Paris (BME) President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

The Role of Wetlands in the Ruamahanga Catchment

Advisors:  Fred Looft, Ingrid Shockey

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

2015 Lina Tran Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2015 Niamh Fennessy
2015 Christina Noyes, Samantha Ervin, Julia LaValley, Jacob Mercier, Jonathan Mirabito President's IQP Awards Winner Undergraduate

Building Hope: Empowerment through Improving Facilities at the Sizakuyenza Safe House

Advisors: Professors Scott Jiusto and Stephen McCauley  

2016 Heather Cirka American Heart Association Fellowship Graduate Biomedical Engineering
2016 Stephen E. Rubin Alumni
2010 Virginia Giordano FitzPatrick '75 Alumni
2003 Erin Hicks, Justin Johnson, Michael Torilli President's IQP Awards Third Place Undergraduate

"Water Management in the Upper Catchment of the Kuiseb River Basin"

Advisors: Steven Pierson; Creighton Peet

2004 Adam Bryant, Andrew Campbell and Patrick Salmon President's IQP Awards Second Place Undergraduate

"Development of Communal Washing Facilities for the Northwest Settlements of Windhoek, Namibia"

Advisors: Art Gerstenfeld and Susan-Gerstenfeld

2008 Kenneth J. Barnett, Derek J. Eggiman, Jesse O. Sawyer President's IQP Awards Second Place Undergraduate

"Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Related to Food: A Study of Two Cafeterias in the Danish Municipality of Lyngby-Taarbæk"

Advisor: Peter Christopher

2012 Donal Boyd, Brennan Ashton, Lauren Bisacky, Jesscia Lopez President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

"Lights on the Horizon: A Socioeconomic Impact Evaluation of Rural Electrification in Tsumkwe, Namibia"

Advisors: Svetlana Nikitina and Thomas Robertson

2017 Abigail Elizabeth King Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2018 Faith Kurtz Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2019 Erika Miyajima Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2018 Katherine Vaz Gomes
2019 Ellen Clarrissimeaux, Sawnaz Shaidani, Emily Staknis, Jeremiah Valero Araujo President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

Creating Methods for SINGA Lyon to Determine and Demonstrate their Impact

WPI Advisors: Peter Hansen and Fabienne Miller

2021 Jonathan Coelho, Sadie Dominguez, Alexandria Nogueras, Megan Seely

Evaluating Chatbot User Experience

2021 Minh Anh Kieu (BME), Noah C. Brennick (PW), Sophia H. Cheng (ME/RBE), Darius Luo (AE) President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

Mobile Farm Stand:  A Vehicle for Education

Advisor: Derren Rosbach

2022 Abigael Kihu, Heather McGlauflin, Julia Toplyn, Kyra Tripp President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

Digital Preservation of Artisanal Culture in the Fez Medina

Advisors: Joseph Doiron and Mohammed El Hamzaoui

2016 Abigail Ismail Undergraduate
2016 Celeste Marsan Undergraduate
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

2016 Lindsay Gurska
2016 Heather Cirka Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Fellowship Graduate Biomedical Engineering
2013 Helen Vassallo Alumni
2009 Robert E. Hart '79 Alumni
2014 Shiv Sankar Baishya, Alyssa Bornstein, Shoubhik Debnath, Jan Keleher, Suraj Malode, Lena Pafumi, Sachin Saini President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

"Proposal for Traffic Congestion Alleviation in Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India"

Advisors: Ingrid Shockey, Arti Kashyap (Indian Institute of Technology Mandi Advisor)

2012 Jonathan Cline, Emily Domingue, Emily Fournier, Marco Villar President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

"Sustainable Paper Insulation for Kambashus in Informal Settlements of Namibia"

Advisors: Svetlana Nikitina and Thomas Robertson

2008 Nicholas D. Careau, Martha F. Gray, Charlie A. Mezak, Phyllis A. Wall President's IQP Awards Second Place Undergraduate

"Managing Water and Sanitation in the Fish River Basin"

Advisors: Creighton Peet, Reinhold Ludwig

2012 Kassondra Hickey, Xavier Miller, Richard Valdes, Frank Bruton President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

"Designing a Water Quality Monitoring Plan for El Yunque National Forest"

Advisors: Aarti Madan and Creighton Peet

2017 Angelina Maria Nicolella Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2018 Irene Wong Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2019 Rosa Reynoso Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2020 Khadijah Ibrahim
2019 Sarat Buasai, Benen ElShakhs, Brian Kelsey, Monica leigh Whitehorn President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

The Development of an Interactive Data Portal for Rural Electrification in Namibia

WPI Advisors: Joseph Doiron and Bethel Eddy

2021 Mairead E. O'Neill (CS), Ciara R. Young (CME), Matthew B. Adams (ME), Christopher R. Davenport (AREN) President's IQP Awards Winner Undergraduate

Therapeutic Gardening

Advisors:  J. Scott Jiusto, Gbetonmasse Somasse

2022 Lali Berelashvili, Samantha Braun, Cal Lebak, Colette Webster President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

Help the Soup Kitchen ‘Go Green’

Advisors: Esther Boucher-Yip and Gary Pollice