Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2017 Ashley White Student Employee of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Facilities Office
2015 Daniele Mucaro Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
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

2017 Allison Paquin Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical & Materials Engineering

Outstanding Major Qualifying Project

2019 Shreeshti Chuke Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
1995 Eric Pearson Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Humanities & Arts
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

2021 Ardavasd Ardhaldjia Emerging Leader of the Year Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

IFC

2013 Jillian Sauer Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2018 Toni Joy Two Towers Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Industrial Engineering
2015 Dusty Cyr, Radu Morar, Joseph Sperry Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering

"Helicopter Sling Load Stabilization with Active Control"

Advisor: Raghvendra Cowlagi, David Olinger

2000 Virginia A. Jerome Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Humanities & Arts, Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2022 Adraesteia Wong Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science, Humanities & Arts
2003 Jay J. Guise Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2019 Jacquelyn Y. Roberge Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
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
2023 Santiago Rivero Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
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:  JosΓ© ArgΓΌello

2022 Benjamin Draper Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

β€œStair Capable Robotic Vacuum”

Advisors: Siavash Farzan, Jing Xiao

2005 Matthew J. Black Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
2007 Kerri L. George Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2009 Nicholas B. LeCompte Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences, Physics
2013 Ruowang Li National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Genomics at Pennsylvania State University

2014 Kanv Garg, Sampath Kumar, Brianna Mikolich, Fiona Ogren, Justin Rice, Mahesh Yadav President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

"Implications of Introducing the IIT Mandi to the Rural Kamand Region"

Advisors: Ingrid Shockey, Rajeshwari Dutt (Indian Institute of Technology Mandi Advisor)

2008 Belin Beyoglu, Martin Ivanonv Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Social Science & Policy Studies

"Technical Analysis of CAN SLIM Stocks"

Advisor: Michael Radzicki

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

"Promises, Policies and Goals: The U.S. Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934," advisor: James Watters

2020 Dominic Cascino, Paulo Chow Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering

 Enhancing Virtual Reality Interactions with Modular Peripherals

2014 Thomas Moutinho Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2020 Payton Bielawski, Nathan Kaplan, Brian Preiss, Alyssa Sousa, Rebekah Vernon President's IQP Awards Honorable Mention Undergraduate

Developing a Sustainability Plan for Hammams in Morocco

WPI Advisors: Mohammed El Hamzaoui and Laura Roberts

2014 Veronica I. Vallenilla Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2017 Hope Shevchuk Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
1997 Jesus M. Beltran Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate International & Global Studies, Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2016 Eric Fast, Mary Prescott, Talia Solomon, Meghan Trahan President's IQP Awards Honorable Mention Undergraduate

"Alternative Water Treatment: Designing a floating island that integrates social & technical elements at American Farm School, Thessaloniki, Greece"

Advisors: Professors Nicola Bulled, and Robert Hersh

2021 Katherine Hudek Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2012 James Boyce Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2022 Lindsay Ambrosino Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2004 Tzipporah M. Kertesz Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2019 Alana Lue Chee Lip Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology

Peer Learning Assistant, Biology and Biotechnology

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
2023 Brendyn Sang Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
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

2023 Brianna Ankstitus, Martin Carrau, Malyssa Deranian, Heather McGlauflin, Cherylle Eliza Sabilla Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Industrial Engineering

"Manufacturing Process Standardization at Affordable Interior Systems"
Advisor: Walter Towner

 

1998 Jennifer M. Wright Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2008 Cosmin Tudor Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
2010 John William Meklenburg Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering
2010 Melinda Susanna Belisle National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Life Sciences - Ecology at Stanford University

2024 Olivia Spielberger. Advisor: Roshanak Bigonah Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology

Creative Arts:  "Visual Persuasion, Ocean Empathy."

2005 Brian J. Catalano, Kristen J. Gervais and Ryan D. President's IQP Awards Third Place Undergraduate

"Preserving the Nautical Traditions and Maritime Heritage of Venice, Italy"

Advisors: Fabio Carrera and John Zeugner

2009 Shreelekha Mandal Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology

"Functional Specificity of Lipid Elongases in Development"

Advisor: Joseph Duffy