Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2021 Cosette Domkofski Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2001 Derek P Bond National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Mechanical Engineering at WPI

2022 Maria Decelles Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2017 Lubna Hassan Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering

Outstanding Major Qualifying Project

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

2016 Julien Ataya, Gregory Kashmanian, Jeremy Koen, Gavin Sabol, Joseph Yuen Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Providing Potable Water to Peruvian Informal Settlements

2009 Nicholas Amendolare Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Social Science & Policy Studies

"Recommendations for Improving Thermal Efficiency in Massachusetts Low-Income Housing"

Advisor: Robert Krueger

2013 Xiaojing "Cathy" Wang Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences, Physics

Tutor, Academic Resources Center and Peer Learning Assistant,Mathematical Sciences

2018 Jessica Locke Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Environmental Engineering
2022 Justin Moy Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Bioinformatics & Computational Biology

“Predicting Becker and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Progression through the Neuromuscular Observational Datahub”

Advisor: Liz Ryder

2014 Xuan He Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“Faith Healing” Major: Biomedical Engineering. Advisor: Bethel Eddy

2019 Samantha Randall Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2016 Joshua Keller Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences
2011 Sarah Mattessich The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Winner The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2002 Amanda A. Roberts Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Sequencing within the Short Story Collection: An Experiment in Design and Practice," advisor: John Trimbur

2018 Matias Campos Abad, Robert Crockett, Matthew Escalante-Hurtado, Alexander Kant, Marcus Knodler, Lucas Mancinelli, Jacob Nichols Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering

"Design and Analysis of CubeSats in Low Earth Orbit."

Advisor:  John Blandino

2015 Taylor Flaxington Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
1995 Kevin M. Shea Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
1997 Robert W. Shivitz Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
2016 Megan Belval, Naumilda Como, Cameron Jones, Conrad Ruiz President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

"Preventing Violence Against Women: Training Resources to Empower the Broadmeadows Community"

Advisors: Professors Holly Ault and James Hanlan

2000 Joseph D. Lussier Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
2003 Nathaniel C. Liefer Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2001 Katherine C. Wheeler Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
1988 Brett A. Pauer Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2019 Carly Pereira Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2011 Melanie Donahue Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2019 Khadijah Ibrahim Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2009 Alison J. LeFlore Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2013 Kelsey K Graham National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Life Sciences – Ecology at Tufts University

2014 Bror Axelsson, Jaclyn DeCristoforo, Kyla Rodger, Aida Waller President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

"Worcester Earn-A-Bike: Creating an Adaptive Bicycle"

Advisors: Corey Dehner and Stephen McCauley

2022 Laura Staugler Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences
2008 Justin Carmichael Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics

"DC Glow-Discharge Plasma Gun"

Advisor: Rafael Garcia

2023 Samantha Havel Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2022 Lilly-Beth Linnell Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Psychological Science

“Neuroanatomical Biomarkers for Suicidality in Dissociative Identity”

Advisors: Ben Nephew, Jeanine Skorinko

2018 Matthew Ryder Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Outstanding Master's Thesis

2016 Jessica R. Caccioppoli Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2015 Katherine Picchione Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“Pokomchi Pictorial Literacy,” major: Mechanical Engineering and Society, Technology, and Policy, advisor: Ryan Madan

1996 Greg Amiro Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"The Rock n' Roll Renaissance," advisor: Douglas G. Weeks

2019 Hammad Sadiq Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology

"Transcriptional Regulation of Non-coding RNAs by Retinoblastoma Tumor Suppressor Protein."

Advisor:  Amity Manning

2014 Giovanna Cutietta Olson Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2007 Lori A. Ferris Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2016 Ali Valamanesh Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
1997 Nicholas G. Bulat Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2001 Frederick Tan Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2006 Amanda McCullough Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2006 Jonathan E. Gronlund Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2020 Zachary Emil, Andrew Robbertz, Richard Valente, Cole Winsor Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science

Enhanced Alternative Communications Using AI and NLP

1985 Diana M. Sauer Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2020 Ryan Johnson, Paul Bonarrigo, Matthew Iaconis, Brendan McCann President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

Using Behavior-Change Strategies to Reduce Littering in Lambeth

WPI Advisors: John Orr and Paul Marrone

1974 Patricia Graham Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate