Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2020 Dung Ngoc Pham Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Outstanding Major Qualifying Project

2008 Jared Buhler, Troy Coverstone, Nicholas Cummings, Siobhan Fleming, Thomas Huleatt, Theodore McDonald, Patrick Renaud, Megan Yocom Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering

"W.A.R.R.I.O.R.S. III – WPI AIAA Research Rocket"

Advisor: John Blandino

2021 Emma E. Burleson, Annemarie N. Eastwood, Lauren O. Mitchell, Molly W. Youngs Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Environmental Engineering

Acid Leachate Active Treatment Pilot System for Cooledge Brook, MA

1991 Matthew R. Bontell Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"The Flood: A Suite for Brass Quartet"

2021 Danielle B. Rubin Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences
2015 Paulo Carvalho Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“Developing and Composing for a Robotic Organ,” major: Biomedical Engineering and Robotics Engineering, minor: Electrical and Computer Engineering, advisor: Scott Barton

2014 Daniel Boudreau Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2016 Victor Hu Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering

Tutor, Academic Resources Center

2001 Karen C. Kosinski Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
1998 Matthew S. Freimuth Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
2001 Karen Hoffman Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2017 Alex Legere, Anthony Perullo, Amy Toscano, Justin Waters President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

"Stormwater Management Educational Materials for Central Massachusetts Municipalities"

Advisors: Corey Denenberg Dehner and Purvi Shah

2016 Natalie Diltz, Jena Mazzucco, Austin Scott, Jeffrey Sirocki President's IQP Awards Winner Undergraduate

"Stakeholder Student: Resource Management of Wairarapa Moana"

Advisors: Professors Bethel Eddy and Robert Kinicki

2018 Talon Boie, Kerry Muenchow, Theodore Vangos, Kelly Vodola President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

Designing a Sustainable Water Supply Network for El Cuerpo de Bomberos Training Practices

Advisors: James Chiarelli and Stephen McCauley

2012 Kyaw Thu Minn Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2018 Jessica Hatt Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

 “The Drug that Shattered the Nuclear Family,”  advisor: Constance Clark

 

2011 Melanie Donahue Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
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

2020 Faye Gauthier Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Architectural Engineering
2007 Craig D. DiGiovanni Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“The Planning and Implementation of Denazification in Post War Germany,” advisor David Dollenmayer

2008 Justin Carmichael Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics

"DC Glow-Discharge Plasma Gun"

Advisor: Rafael Garcia

2021 Mihn Anh Kieu Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
1986 Robert Provost Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"African Percussion," advisors: David McKay and Richard Falco

2022 Anna Eng Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2016 Jessica R. Caccioppoli Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2014 Ryan B. Weitz Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
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

2013 Shane Waterman Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics

Tutor, Physics

2013 Jared R. Snell Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2022 Hannah Borges, Alexis Nichols, Shreya Puttagunta, Meghan Slaney, Chris Son Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering

“Feeding Device for Premature Infants in Low Middle-Income Countries”

Advisors: Solomon Mensah, Dirk Albrecht

1999 John M. Markow Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2024 Patrick J. Healey. Advisor: Kevin Lewis Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering

Creative Arts:  "P.J. Haus."

2002 Jason Michael Field Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2018 Patrick Fitzgerald Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
2016 Ali Valamanesh Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2018 Maria Elizabeth Daigle Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2019 Dylan R. Felty Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2006 Jonathan E. Gronlund Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2013 Jesse Lehman Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"A Discussion of 20th Century Musical Techniques and Their Presence in Karlheinz Stockhausen's Gruppen“ , advisor: Douglas Weeks

1985 Diana M. Sauer Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
1974 Patricia Graham Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2010 Sara Ingrid Duran National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Engineering - Electrical and Electronic at Duke University

2004 Andrew Mumford, Jessica Sulzmann and Jesse Tippett President's IQP Awards First Place Undergraduate

"Energy Efficiency Guidelines for Low-Cost Housing"

Advisors: Art Gerstenfeld and Susan-Gerstenfeld

2019 Khadijah Ibrahim Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2009 Daniel Asselin, David Beavers, Stephan Jakubowski Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering

"Investigation of Plasma Charging Effects"

Advisor: John Blandino

2002 Benjamin K. Sandofsky Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"The Shawl: The Study and Application of David Mamet's Filmmaking Theories," advisor: Dean O'Donnell

2007 Samuel Feller, Nathan Malatesta, Nicholas McMahon Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering

Advisor: Kenneth Stafford

2017 Bernat Navarro-Serer Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry