Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2013 Jacquelyn Eireann Tupper Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Environmental Engineering
2020 Jared DeMaio Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering
2014 Rosero Jose L. Ortiz Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
1998 Gregory Snow Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
2021 Zoe Januszewski Two Towers Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Industrial Engineering
2001 Justin Lee Sierpinski Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Humanities & Arts, Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2022 Meenakshi Kodali Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering
2012 John Madura Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2006 Sanjayan Manivannan Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2007 Sanjayan Manivannan Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences, Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2011 Sarah E. Lax Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2022 William Cross, Adrian Curless, Alexander Simoneau Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science

“Ultrafork and Focused KSM: Tools for Memory Optimization in Duplicate Containers” 

Advisor: Craig Shue
2015 Julia Whitney Darcy National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Chemistry - Chemical Catalysis Yale University
1999 Susan M Shorrock National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Biomedical Engineering at WPI
2016 Xavier. J. Jackson Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
2024 Regina Valencia Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering
2016 Amy M. Stevens Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2008 Denise Gleason, Kristoffer Jensen, Garima Painuly Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering

"Proton Exchange Membranes and Membrane Electrode Assemblies for Enhanced Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Performance"

Advisor: Ravindra Datta
2018 Megan Hoppe Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2019 Rosanna S. Heidt Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2013 Rachel Handel Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"The Towers Sesquicentennial Edition", advisor: James Cocola
2017 Tyler Chaulk, Rodrigo Rivas, Ann Votta, Jacob Wennersten Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering

"Humanoid Stereoscopic Vision System."

Advisors:  Cagdas Onal, Holly Ault
1990 Bernard L. Dion Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"The Risk of Slavery: Warning Through Structure in 'Benito Cereno'"
2015 Paulo Carvalho, Sean Weaver, Anurag Kesari Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering

"Phlebot: The Robotic Phlebotomist"

Advisors: Patrick Flaherty, Gregory Fischer
2019 Johnny Wang Student Employee of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
1994 Philip M. Muller Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
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
1996 Tung L. Ng Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2021 Matthew Bisson Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2010 Olufunmilayo Olatokunbo Adebayo Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2021 Robbie Oleynick advisor: Laura Eckelman Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Scoring A Silent Sky"

2001 Marco Fontecchio Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2005 Hunter Bennett-Daggett Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
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
1987 Chrysanthe Demetry Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2023 Eli Swai Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
2009 Joseph A. Krasinskas Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2023 Stefanie Beaudry, Vanessa Bussiere, Sarah Johnson, Athina Theofilou Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering

"Net Zero and Resilient Housing for Heat Waves"
Advisors: Soroush Farzin, Shichao Liu
2013 Nathan T Nesbitt National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Physics and Astronomy-Condensed Matter Physics at Boston College
2003 Patrick Lahar, Brittany Doucette, William Durgin President's IQP Awards Third Place Undergraduate

"Analysis Model of Resources for Costa Rican Firefighters"

Advisors: H.J. Manzari, Susan Vernon-Gerstenfeld
2024 Kristin Lavoie Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Data Science
2015 Eva Barinelli, Brian King, Daniel Wivagg Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Replacing Blackboard: Finding a New Learning Management System for WPI
2007 Donna Davidson Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology

"Inhibition of HIV—1 Tat—Induced Inflammation by the NF—kB Subunit RelB"

Advisor: David Adams
2018 Maria Daigle Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering, Psychological Science
2019 Trung T. Tran Trong Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Industrial Engineering, Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2008 Douglas K. Tischer The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Winner The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2006 Amanda J. Tarbet Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Multimodal Tensions in the Graphic Novel," advisor: Ruth Smith
2018 Michael Giancola Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences

"Permutation-Invariant Consensus over Crowdsourced Labels."

Advisor: Randy Paffenroth
1985 Charles Champagne Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Konrad Adenauer Erster Kanzler der Bundesrepublik," and "Ahnlichkeiten zwichen der Franzozischen Revolution und der Deutschen Revolution von 1848"
2016 Daniel Driggs, William Frick, Jacob Hawes, Derek Johnson Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Interactive Media & Game Development

“The Piper”