Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2009 Charlie Mezak Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Humanities & Arts

"Life in the Ledges"

Advisor: Constance Clark

2008 Yilmaz Kiymaz Student Employee of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Information Technology Services
2022 Rachel Maurice Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry, Professional Writing
2024 Lauren Eppinger Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Humanities & Arts
2015 Ben Pulver Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2023 Jack Adiletta The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Winner The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering, Data Science
2022 Maya Flores, Colin Stevens, Devon Poisson Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering

“5G User Equipment Selective Jammer” 

Advisors: Alexander Wyglinski

2016 Allysa Grant Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials 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

2016 Mario Alvarado Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

"Developing Fluorescent Aminoazobenzene Metal-Organic Frameworks"

Advisor: Shawn Burdette

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"

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
2004 Helen A. Hanson The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Winner The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Undergraduate Physics
1982 Heather D. MacDonald Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2013 Mariah R. Seaboldt Salisbury Prize 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
2019 Colin Ancalmo, Hannah Baez, Noah Budris, Alexander Spielman President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

Interactive Museum Exhibit Featuring Pueblo Influence on New Mexican Contemporary Architecture

WPI Advisor: Lauren Mathews

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

2021 Noah Roberts Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2021 Paul A. Pacheco Jr. & Vanessa Van DeMark advisor: Kristin Boudreau Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Addressing the Gender Gap in STEM Education with Classroom Interventions"

2022 Melissa Hauman, Samantha Havel, Logan Rinaldi President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

Power, Responsibility, and Justice in Research with Indigenous Communities

Advisors: Shana Lessing and Yunus Dogan Telliel

2023 Alex Friedman Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
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 Xiuping Chen Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Origins and Characteristics of Chinese Cyber Nationalism”, Advisor:  Jennifer Rudolph

2017 Olivia Leavitt Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“Repeat and Refrain:  Making A Renaissance Villancico Modern,” advisor: Douglas Weeks

2000 Emily Reynolds Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Becoming a Woman: A Look at the Influences of Patriarchy, Materialism and Relationships in The Great Gatsby and The Color Purple," advisor: Lisa Lebduska

2016 Courtney Jean Lewis Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2015 Zachary Arnold, Danielle LeRose Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science

"Smartphone Gait Inference"

Advisors: Emmanuel Agu, Joseph Petruccelli

2019 Hector Gonzalez Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2006 Jennifer L. Schweers Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
2007 Eugene F. Douglass Jr. Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2008 Daniel J. Smaltz Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2009 Geoffrey I. Karasic Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
1997 Jeremy P. Olszewski Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences
2019 Kristen Antunes Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“Local Knowledge and Climate Adaptation,” advisor: William San Martin

2012 Julie A Bliss National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Environmental Engineering at WPI

2008 Indraneel Sircar Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2014 Lucine Bahtiarian, Tyler Collins, Kathering Connors, Zachary Goddard President's IQP Awards Honorable Mention Undergraduate

"Maitland Garden Village Perseverance Park Redevelopment"

Advisors: Lorraine Higgins and Scott Jiusto

2004 Iavor N. Trifonov Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
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)

2007 Eugene Douglass (Chemistry) Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

"Synthesis and Quantitative Testing of Electrochemical and Optical Sensors in Surface Formats"

Advisor: Grant McGimpsey

2021 Caroline Johnson Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

Structure/Function Studies of EGFR Family and Kek1