Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2017 Nick Bograd, Brett Carbonneau, Alexander Krasa, Benjamin Preston President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

"Northborough Composting: A Peri-Urban Land Conflict"

Advisors: Corey Denenberg Dehner and Derren Rosbach

2015 Daniel Gendin Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences

"Mathematical Model of Laminate Materials"

Advisor: Burt Tilley

2013 Xiaojing "Cathy" Wang Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences, Physics

Tutor, Academic Resources Center and Peer Learning Assistant,Mathematical Sciences

1991 Eric R. Bell Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Reagan Administration Foreign Policy Toward Dictatorships: A Comparative Study"

2014 Randy Chin Student Employee of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Marketing Communications
2015 Rachel Blakely Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
2022 Justin Moy Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Bioinformatics & Computational Biology

“Predicting Becker and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Progression through the Neuromuscular Observational Datahub”

Advisor: Liz Ryder

2018 Kylie Dickinson, Donald Dione, Sarah St. Pierre, Tyler Weiss President's IQP Awards Winner Undergraduate

Reducing Flood Risk in Shkodra Through Community Engagement

Advisors: Leslie Dodson and Robert Hersh

2010 Linnea M. Palmer Paton Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2018 Neel Dhanaraj Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

 “An Analysis of the Potential Endangerment of Immigrants Due to Merit-Based Immigration,”  advisor: Jennifer McWeeny

 

1996 Carlos A. Zapata Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
1998 Edward M. Gaboriault Jr. Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2016 Jacqueline Ngo Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Social Science & Policy Studies

"Durable Technologies for Producing Public Goods"

Advisor: Alex Smith 

2001 Christopher Holt Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
2012 Pan Liu Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences
2007 Amanda N. McCullough Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2019 Carly Pereira Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2008 Tyler A. Chase Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences
2016 Melanie Li Sing How National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Mechanical Engineering at Cornell

2024 Ben Kresge. Advisor: John Sanbonmatsu Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science

Scholarship:  "Having it Both Ways:  Can I be a Moral Omnivore?"

2001 Derek P Bond National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Mechanical Engineering at WPI

2014 Xuan He Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“Faith Healing” Major: Biomedical Engineering. Advisor: Bethel Eddy

2022 Adrianna Staszewska Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science, Data Science
2012 Kassondra Hickey, Xavier Miller, Richard Valdes, Frank Bruton President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

"Designing a Water Quality Monitoring Plan for El Yunque National Forest"

Advisors: Aarti Madan and Creighton Peet

2016 Joshua Keller Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences
2007 Rebecca C. Baron Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“A Change in Expectations: Staging of Dueling in Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet and Hamlet,” advisor Michelle Ephraim

2009 Nicholas Amendolare Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Social Science & Policy Studies

"Recommendations for Improving Thermal Efficiency in Massachusetts Low-Income Housing"

Advisor: Robert Krueger

2018 Megan Errichetti Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2023 Catherine Reynolds Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
1986 Chrysanthe Demetry Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Healing and Growing: American Civil War Fiction," advisor: John Zeugner

2018 Mary Rose Davis Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2015 Taylor Flaxington Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2022 Elaine Chen Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Professional Writing

“A Tsuboniwa: A Garden Dream” 

Advisors: Yunus Telliel, Jennifer deWinter

2019 Nathaniel S. Dennler Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
1994 Mark R. Fuzzetti Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
2013 Damien Cabral Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"The Origins of Muslim Extremism" , advisor:  W.A. Bland Addison

1998 Man Ching Cheung Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
1999 Pavel Murnikov Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
2016 Megan Belval, Naumilda Como, Cameron Jones, Conrad Ruiz President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

"Preventing Violence Against Women: Training Resources to Empower the Broadmeadows Community"

Advisors: Professors Holly Ault and James Hanlan

2002 Evan Andrew Gilman Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2001 Katherine C. Wheeler Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2020 Olivia Hunker Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

Fabrication and Characterization of Asymmetric Phosphoinositide-containing Vesicles

1988 Brett A. Pauer Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2020 Michael Clements, Leo Gross, Elizabeth Kirschner, Zetta Rajaniemi President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

Memorialization of the Spaç Labor Camp: An Investigation into Digital Methods

WPI Advisors: Robert Kinicki and Robert Hersh

1980 Bonnie J. Cook Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2021 Gabriel Espinosa; Alexander Wadsworth; Jack Hanlon Sustainability Project Competition Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Office of Sustainability

Small Scale Carbon Capture Implementation and Utilization at Worcester Polytechnic Institute

2013 Alexandra Clemente National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Neurosciences at MIT

2021 Enzo Giglio de Azevedo Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2024 Skyler Kauffman Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
2014 Shiv Sankar Baishya, Alyssa Bornstein, Shoubhik Debnath, Jan Keleher, Suraj Malode, Lena Pafumi, Sachin Saini President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

"Proposal for Traffic Congestion Alleviation in Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India"

Advisors: Ingrid Shockey, Arti Kashyap (Indian Institute of Technology Mandi Advisor)