Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2023 Alex Friedman Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
1989 Jeffrey L. Quirke Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Tragedy and the Gothic," advisor: Kent P. Ljungquist
2023 Alex Boucher Jr Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology

Structural Analysis of Kek1's Interaction with the EGFR"
Advisor:  Joe Duffy

 
2012 Joseph Worthy Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2013 Sarah Ann Cote Two Towers Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2011 Courtney Gilbert Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
1996 Shaun P. Heaney Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2018 Javier Lawes Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Industrial Engineering
2017 Corey Allan Richards National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Photonic Materials at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2013 Chuqiao Yang Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2017 Kathleen Donovan, Samantha Grillo, Cameron LeBlanc, Elijah Levi Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Bringing Back Bats: Management Systems for White Nose Syndrome
2003 Rebecca A MacDonald National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Biomedical Engineering at Cornell
2002 Rachel E. Zimet Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
2019 Olivia M. Leavitt Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2009 Christopher R. Lizewski, Marcella C. Granfone, Daniel J. Olecki President's IQP Awards First Place Undergraduate

"Water and Sanitation in Monwabisi Park, Cape Town"

Advisors: Scott Jiusto and Robert Hersh
2019 Brian Zylich National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Computer Science at WPI
2009 Charlie Mezak Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Humanities & Arts

"Life in the Ledges"

Advisor: Constance Clark
2015 Ben Pulver Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2017 Kyle Morrison Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

"The CRISPR Enzyme Cpf1 as a Tool for Gene Regulation."

Advisor:  Destin Heilman
2008 Yilmaz Kiymaz Student Employee of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Information Technology Services
2016 Allysa Grant Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2020 Olivia Gulezian, Evan LeBeau, Ken Snoddy, Ilana Zeldin Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Developing Patient-Centered Mobile Application for Understanding Fatigue in Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM)
2021 Caroline Johnson Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

Structure/Function Studies of EGFR Family and Kek1
2016 Mario Alvarado Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

"Developing Fluorescent Aminoazobenzene Metal-Organic Frameworks"

Advisor: Shawn Burdette
2021 Olivia L. Lattanzi Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2022 Lauren Paul Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2020 Ryan Eastwood Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science

Peer Learning Assistant, Robotics Engineering
2005 Karim G. Makram Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Breaking Out," advisor: Lorraine Higgins
2023 Ally Breen Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
1984 Walter F. Precourt, III Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Henry V: Shakespeare's Ideal King"
2023 Nicole Dombrowski Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics

"Feasibility of Using a PIPs Detector for Neutron Detection"
Advisors: Marcel Blais, David Medich


 
2005 Andrea R. Hafner Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2007 Neil D. Lettenberger Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2009 Krista L. Dietz Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2015 Tess Hudak, Muhammad Hussian, Angela MacLeod, Daniel Ottey, Rasheeda Samih Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

From Trash to Cash: Helping Paraguayan waste pickers turn glass from the streets to money in their pockets
1982 Heather D. MacDonald Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2013 Mariah R. Seaboldt Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2018 Hannah Schultz Charles O. Thompson Scholar Outstanding Member of the Class Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2014 Fioleda Prifti National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Materials Research – Biomaterials at WPI
1999 Man Ching Cheung Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
1996 Rebecca A Kupcinskas National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Biomedical Engineering at WPI
2003 Jack N. Waddell, Jr. Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
2008 Kataryzna Koscielska, Oliver Salmon Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

"Mapping of HTLV-1 Tax Functional Domain Conferring Cellular Senescence"

Advisor: Destin Heilman
2018 Virginia Nunez Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Bioinformatics & Computational Biology

"Examination pf a Putative Cu+ Importer in Pseudomonas aeruginosa."

Advisor:  Jose Arguello
2020 Katherine Vasconcelos Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Professional Writing
2020 Samuel Hopkins Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“Development of Single-use Plastics in a Throwaway Culture,” advisor: Joseph Cullon
2021 Brooke Dawson, Hannah Gallagher, Amelia Harvey, Lilly Nardelli, Aram Soultanian Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering

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