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Year	Recipient	Name	Title	Awarded by	Type	Department	Details
1997	Janet L. Brennan	Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate		"A Consideration of Consciousness Explained," advisor: Roger S. Gottlieb
2021	Colleen O'Malley	Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Biomedical Engineering
2022	Gabriela Chong	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Chemical Engineering
2017	Lucy Garvey	Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Mechanical & Materials Engineering	Outstanding Major Qualifying Project
2016	Kristen Chan, Jessica Hatt, Maricella Ramirez	Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate		Too Much Brown in the Puget Sound
2014	Katelyn Cabral	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate
2013	Yunqiu "Barbara" Sun	Peer Learning Assistant of the Year	Honorable Mention	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Chemistry & Biochemistry, Professional Writing	Tutor and MASH leader, Academic Resources Center
2018	Rachel Santarsiero	Salisbury Prize		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Professional Writing
1997	Konstantin Grebelsky	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Computer Science
2022	Kylie Belanger	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Biology & Biotechnology	“Metaphase Chromosome Alignment is Sensitive to Dynein-Dependent Forces at the Cell Cortex” Advisor: Amity Manning
2001	Eric Tapley	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Integrative & Global Studies
2005	Adam M. Bryant	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2019	Thomas V. Ralph	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Electrical & Computer Engineering, International & Global Studies
2004	Laura A. Matejik	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2011	Elizabeth M. Dailey	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Mathematical Sciences
2012	Jennifer Mann	The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation	Winner	The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation	Undergraduate	Biomedical Engineering
2009	Meghan A. Pasquali	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Biomedical Engineering
2018	Reid Billings, Michael Morlock, Jack Nigro, Ryan Rigney, Nasjela Thodhoraqi	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Mechanical & Materials Engineering	"Collapsible Temporary Housing Design and Optimization." Advisor: Sarah Wodin-Schwartz
2014	Katelyn Ashley Cabral	National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships	Honorable Mention	National Science Foundation	Undergraduate		For Biomedical Engineering at WPI
2016	Edward Dring, Victoria Johnson, Jacob Maalouf	President's IQP Awards	First Runner Up		Undergraduate		"Improving Healthcare Coordination in the Mandi District" ITT Mandi Students: Gopal Aggarwal, Naman Gupta Advisors: Drs. S. McCauley, Ingrid Shockey, Varun Dutt & R. Padmanabhan
2003	Erin Hicks, Justin Johnson, Michael Torilli	President's IQP Awards	Third Place		Undergraduate		"Water Management in the Upper Catchment of the Kuiseb River Basin" Advisors: Steven Pierson; Creighton Peet
2008	Michael Demers, Ryan Lehrmitt, Robert Pantalone	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Manufacturing Engineering	"High-efficiency Coolant Nozzle Design for Abrasive Wire Wafer Slicing Machine" Advisor: Yiming Rong
2019	Anyely Felix Nova	Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship			Undergraduate
2009	Don Havener	Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities	Honorable Mention	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate		"The Encyclopedia and the Third Estate," advisor B. Addison
1992	Kevin M. Parker	Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate		"The Society of Friends - Antislavery Pioneers," advisor: Steven C. Bullock
2022	Madison Rutherford	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Environmental Engineering
2014	Ran Li	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate
2012	Jennifer Mann	Two Towers Prize	Honorable Mention	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate
2023	Michael Beskid	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Aerospace Engineering
1998	Bradd E. Libby	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Chemical Engineering
2022	Brock Jolicoeur	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Physics	“Development of a Microcollimator Array for Neutron Imaging” Advisor: David Medich
2018	Victoria Loehle	Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate		Outstanding Major Qualifying Project
2007	Charles A. Gammal III	Two Towers Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate
2006	Paul M. Ingemi	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Electrical & Computer Engineering
2011	Christopher Kevorkian	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Electrical & Computer Engineering
2009	Michael L. Diamant	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate
2019	Nathaniel Mione and Bryannah Voydatch	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Physics	"Constructing Two Dimensional Theories of Gravity for Schwrzchild, Reissner-Nordstrom and Non-Extremal Kerr Black Holes." Advisor: P.K. Aravind
2010	Lynn Anne Worobey	National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships	Winner	National Science Foundation	Undergraduate		For Biomedical Engineering at University of Pittsburgh
2024	Nora Smith. Advisor: Joseph Aguilar	Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Mechanical & Materials Engineering	Creative Arts: "Burnout."
2004	Adam Bryant, Andrew Campbell and Patrick Salmon	President's IQP Awards	Second Place		Undergraduate		"Development of Communal Washing Facilities for the Northwest Settlements of Windhoek, Namibia" Advisors: Art Gerstenfeld and Susan-Gerstenfeld
2007	Andrew Port, Jeremy Ristau	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Mathematical Sciences	"One—Dimensional Viscoelastic Cell Motility Model" Advisor: Roger Lui
2017	Victoria Loehle	Salisbury Prize		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Electrical & Computer Engineering
2020	Rosa R. Reynoso, Van W. Harting, Isabel M. Azevedo, Madison E. Cunniff, Rediet Merra Tegegne	Provost's MQP Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Chemical Engineering, Social Science & Policy Studies	Co-Designing for Gold Mining Safety
2020	Mikel Matticoli, Lucas Varella	President's IQP Awards	Finalist		Undergraduate		Jazz History Database Global Contributor Project WPI Advisors: Keith Zizza
2008	Ryan Whetstone	Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities	Honorable Mention	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate		"Jazz Saxophone Performance; From Swing to Fusion," advisor: Richad Falco
2021	Anyely Felix Nova	Crimson and Gray Awards		Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate
1987	Richard D. June	Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate		"William Carlos Williams' Paterson: the Voice of a Nation," advisor: Laura J. Menides
2021	Rebecca C. Debski	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate	Aerospace Engineering
2014	Nicholas J. Noons	Salisbury Prize	Winner	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate
2022	Clara Dublin Advisor: John Galante	Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities	Honorable Mention	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Undergraduate		"From Entrance to Evacuation: The Development and Destruction of Japanese Immigrants’ Community Network in Seattle"