Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
1996 Douglast P. Wilson Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2011 Sarah Mattessich Two Towers Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2007 Jill M. Goldstein Two Towers Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2017 Allison Paquin Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical & Materials Engineering

Outstanding Major Qualifying Project
2020 Nicholas Pacheco Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2007 Krista J. Smith Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2016 Amanda Adkins Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
2016 Jessica D'Agostino, Eve George, Toni Joy, Jessica Locke Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Fuel Poverty in Lawrence, MA
2020 Johanna Whitwell Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

'Evaluating the Influence of Italian Fascism on Brazilian Integralism and the Vargas Regime' advisor: John Galante
2008 Katarzyna A. Koscielska Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2018 Toni Joy Two Towers Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Industrial Engineering
2021 Olivia Lattanzi Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Humanities & Arts

Putting the “Other” Center Stage: Examining Modern Language and Nuances of Representation within Theatre
2010 Yuk-Kwan Brian Yuen Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2015 Melissa Dery Tau Beta Pi Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2021 Hannah K. Schulz Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2006 Tyler D Ames National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Molecular Biology at Yale University
2019 Jacquelyn Y. Roberge Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2021 Augustine K. Asumadu (MIS), Devan Blechinger-Slocum (ME), Margaret R. Gunville (ME), Sarah A. MacDonald (BME) President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

Launching a Competitive Robotics Team for Physically Active Youth

Advisors:  Nancy Burnham, Alexander Smith
2008 Lauren N. Alex, Jessy L. Cusack, Augustina I. Mills, Alejandro E. Sosa-Boyd President's IQP Awards First Place Undergraduate

"Design and Construction of a Communal Laundry Station in Monwabisi Park, Cape Town"

Advisors: Scott Jiusto, Stephen Weininger
2010 Andrew Capulli The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Winner The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2016 Jessica Orr Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering

Peer Learning Assistant, Chemical Engineering
2009 Christopher M. Drouin Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science

"The Mindful Reader: Learning- Augmented News Aggregation"

Advisor: David C. Brown
2007 Lucas Samuel Lincoln Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“An Analysis of Pat Metheny as a Jazz Composer,” advisor Richard Falco
2018 Tristan Cano Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

"Copper Homeostasis is Important for Pathogenesis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Caenorhabditis elegans."

Advisor:  José Argüello
2023 Rodrigo Marcenaro Palacios Charles O. Thompson Scholar Outstanding Member of the Class Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2012 Nicholas Mondor Student Employee of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Office of the Provost
2016 Hailey Cambra Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

"Transcriptional Evidence of the Role of the ROotstock in Different Artemisia annua Chemotypes"

Advisor: Pamela Weathers
1986 Nancy Teasdale Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"I Don't Have to Cry for the Rest of My Life," advisor: Susan Vick
2010 John Upton Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2011 Celena Dopart Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2013 Xuyu Qian Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2002 Matthew James Douglas Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2004 Sidharth G. Rupani Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2020 Brandon Fox Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Industrial Engineering
2011 Nathan T. Nesbitt Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
2016 Elizabeth Thompson Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Humanities & Arts

"What's Bugging Me About Literary Translation: Translating German to English"

Advisor: Ulrike Brisson
2017 Hope Shevchuk Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
2009 Allison P. Smyth Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2015 Daniele Mucaro Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
2021 Rose Noggle Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2016 Julia Whitney Darcy National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Chemistry - Chemical Structure, Dynamics, and Mechanism at Yale University
2022 Maya Flores Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2000 Alicia C Briggs National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Biomedical Engineering at WPI
2017 Ashley White Student Employee of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Facilities Office
2007 Lynn A. Worobey The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Winner The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2017 Carolyn Detora Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering

Peer Learning Assistant, Great Problems Seminar
2008 Christina Ernst Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology

"Structure/Function Studies of kekkon5, a Putative Novel Component of the Cellular Adhesion Machinery"

Advisor: Joseph Duffy
2001 Brendan Morris Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Rastro: The Essence of Madrid," advisor: Lee Fontanella
2019 Haylea Northcott, Amanda Moulaison Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Bioinformatics & Computational Biology

"Pubmed AuthorMap: A study of Research Collaboration in the Life Science Fields."

Advisors:  Liz Ryder and Dimitry Korkin
2022 Michael Berwanger Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

“Photoredox Catalyzed C-H Acetoxylation Through Formal Hydride Abstraction”

Advisors: Stephen Kmiotek, Patricia Musacchio