Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2020 Dung Pham Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
2020 Minh Anh Kieu Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“Insiders, Outsiders, and In-Between: Asian Nonimmigrant Experience in the American Context of Intersectional Racism" advisor: Jennifer McWeeny
2019 John Perkoski Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Outstanding Major Qualifying Project
2021 Connor J. Skinner Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2007 Danielle N. Sorenson Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2015 Lena Pafumi Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute The Business School

Peer Learning Assistant, Drama/Theatre
2011 Olufunmilayo O. Adebayo Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2023 Samantha DeFrancesco Charles O. Thompson Scholar Outstanding Member of the Class Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
1990 Athena Demetry Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"The Individual in Israeli and Palestinian Literature"
2015 Hannah Brown Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
1994 Dena N. Niedzwiecki Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2011 Matthew Connolly Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
1998 Richard Cheng Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
2001 Jennifer Hardy Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2024 Robert Oleynick Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
2017 Muping Chen Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Physics

Outstanding Master's Thesis
2016 Nicolas Riart, Veronica Soto-Belloso, Valentina Zapata Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Innovative Sanitation Solution for Informal Settlements In Quibdo, Colombia
2019 Zayla D. Schaeffer Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
2020 Olivia Foster Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2008 Daniel J. Smaltz The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Winner The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
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
2018 Matt Ryder Teaching Assistant of the Year Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2007 Sanjayan Manivannan Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences, Mechanical & Materials Engineering
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
2011 Sarah E. Lax Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
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"
1999 Susan M Shorrock National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Biomedical Engineering at WPI
2014 Andrew Peter Wolff Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
1996 Shawn P. Brennan Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
2013 Kaung Myat Win Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2002 William Lucas Churchill Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2018 Lindsay Lozeau Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate

Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation
2006 Sanjayan Manivannan The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Winner The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences, Mechanical & Materials Engineering
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"

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
2001 Lauren Wojtkun Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Like the World of Dreams Itself': An Analysis of William Shakespeare's Use of the Green World in A Midsummer Night's Dream and As You Like It," advisor: Michelle Ephraim
2009 Joseph A. Krasinskas Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2013 Nathan T Nesbitt National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Physics and Astronomy-Condensed Matter Physics at Boston College
1995 Benjamin N. Lipchak Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
2013 Kevin Hufnagle Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2003 Blake D. Carter Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2019 Kamryn Spinelli Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“The Jewish Exodus from Morocco: Gauging the Social Trauma,” advisor: Mohamed Brahimi
2021 Lauren A. Kaija Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Environmental Engineering
2006 Kathleen M. Ferguson Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2008 Hilal Tetik Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate International & Global Studies
2023 Catherine Salvaggio Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate The Business School