Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2015 Will Bass, Michelle Kerns, Alex Kim, Aylin Padir Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Modern Vector Control: Genetically Modifying Anopheles gambiae

1978 John R. Caola Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2018 Thomas Leonard Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences
2012 Olfunmilayo O Adebayo National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Biomedical Engineering at Cornell

2012 Julie A Bliss National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Environmental Engineering at WPI

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

2020 Katherine Vasconcelos Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Professional Writing
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 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

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

2018 Virginia Nunez Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Bioinformatics & Computational Biology

"Examination pf a Putative Cu+ Importer in Pseudomonas aeruginosa."

Advisor:  Jose Arguello

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

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

2017 Caitlin Sara Burner Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2022 Stephen Price Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
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
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

1998 Eric J. Perkins Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology, Humanities & Arts
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 Zachary Arnold, Danielle LeRose Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science

"Smartphone Gait Inference"

Advisors: Emmanuel Agu, Joseph Petruccelli

2024 Lauren Eppinger Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Humanities & Arts
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
2010 Chad Mondor Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering, Chemistry & Biochemistry
2010 Shawn P Carey National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University

2006 Brian Foley, Hans Jensen, Tyler Forbes, Adam Young President's IQP Awards First Place Undergraduate

"Holy Name Central Catholic Jr. / Sr. High School Wind Turbine Feasibility IQP"

Advisor: Alexander Emanuel 

2020 Sarah Butts Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Humanities & Arts
2009 Alisha Begin, Stepen Shin Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering

"Adsorption of Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether Using ZSM-5"

Advisors: Robert Thompson, John Bergendahl

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
1989 Jeffrey L. Quirke Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Tragedy and the Gothic," advisor: Kent P. Ljungquist

2017 Jessica Wedell Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2022 Rachel Maurice Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry, Professional Writing
2013 Sarah Ann Cote Two Towers Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
1996 Shaun P. Heaney Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2023 Jack Adiletta The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Winner The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering, Data Science
2013 Chuqiao Yang Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2022 Maya Flores, Colin Stevens, Devon Poisson Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering

“5G User Equipment Selective Jammer” 

Advisors: Alexander Wyglinski

2016 Veronica Rivera Student Employee of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Office of Accessibility Services
2002 Rachel E. Zimet Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
2012 Joseph Worthy Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2011 Courtney Gilbert Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
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

2017 Corey Allan Richards National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Photonic Materials at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2016 Courtney Jean Lewis Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2003 Rebecca A MacDonald National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Biomedical Engineering at Cornell

2019 Hector Gonzalez Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2009 Christopher R. Lizewski, Marcella C. Granfone, Daniel J. Olecki President's IQP Awards First Place Undergraduate

"Water and Sanitation in Monwabisi Park, Cape Town"

Advisors: Scott Jiusto and Robert Hersh

2019 Colin Ancalmo, Hannah Baez, Noah Budris, Alexander Spielman President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

Interactive Museum Exhibit Featuring Pueblo Influence on New Mexican Contemporary Architecture

WPI Advisor: Lauren Mathews