Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2014 Michal Talmor National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Mechanical Engineering at WPI

2022 Adraesteia Wong Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Humanities & Arts

“Never Set in Stone: The Creative Process in Transformative Fiction”   

Advisor: Kate McIntyre

2016 Cody Slater Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"The Temporal Expression of Consciousness," advisor: Jennifer McWeeny

1995 Lori A. Jensen Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2008 Neal Orman Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science

"GPU Optimization of an Existing Free-Viewpoint Video System"

Advisor: Robert Lindeman

2011 Tayeisha Jackson Two Towers Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2015 Lina Tran Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2000 Emrah Diril Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2004 Ravi Srinivasan Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences
2024 Trevor Bush Two Towers Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2020 Mbolle Akume Edwin Coghlin ’23 Award for Community Service Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

ACE

2021 Jillian Forauer Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2022 Nick Tomasetti, Nico Alvarado, Ben Mason, Anonymous Sustainability Project Competition Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Office of Sustainability

Using Media to Influence Agricultural Perceptions on Climate Change

2018 Ana Restrepo Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2006 James Michael McHugh Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2007 Colin J. DeGraf Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
2017 Ethan Coeytaux, Cameron Crook, Alexandre Pauwels, Hugh Whelan Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

5-Axis 3D Printing

 

2010 Mark Hayden Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Transmarginal Inhibition in Gravity’s Rainbow,” advisor: Lance Schachterle

2003 Ann C. Skulas The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Winner The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2009 Neal K. Humphrey Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Psychological Science
2023 Abigail Leonardi Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
1994 Scott J. Higgins Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Who Am I? The Problem of Identity," advisor: Bettina Bergo

2011 Shawn P Carey National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University

2023 Alana Miska Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering

"Development of Module for Fire Dynamics"
Advisor: James Urban

2003 Zachary Lewko, Houng Ly, Kevin Menard President's IQP Awards Undergraduate

"Developing an On-Line Community for Nurses"

Advisors: James Demetry, Donald Brown

2014 Damien J. Cabral Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2013 Kun Peng Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2007 Todor Kiryazov, Gregory McHale, Daniel Mezynski, Phillip Sweeney Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science

"ComputerWorld Survey System"

Advisors: David Brown, Diane Strong

1998 Emma Palmacci Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2017 Gyneth Campbell Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate International & Global Studies
2001 Paul Laplume Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2004 Robert J. Degon Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2016 Karen Fitch, Kathryn Gillis, Abby Harrison Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering

"Digital Programmable Gaussian Noise Generator"

Advisor: Edward Clancy

2024 John Edward Carrotta Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Interactive Media & Game Development
2020 Chester Barber, Timothy Esworthy, Sydney Palmer Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering

Tree Seedling Planter

2018 Takayoshi Tsutsu Student Employee of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2021 Manon C. Miller Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology

Characterizing the Importance of the CO1 SLiM in Regulating Kek5's Activity

2017 Zachary Ligham Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2021 Emma E. Lowry Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Interactive Media & Game Development
2019 Samantha Lor Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2006 Ryan W. Carley Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2022 Danielle Upton Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2011 Felipe Polido Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2020 Kyra Bresnahan Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science

Peer Learning Assistant, Drama/Theatre

2010 Katelyn Perkins Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
1989 Paul F. Wojiak Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Obstinacy and Naïveté: The Organized Labor Movement in Worcester, Massachusetts, During the 1930's," advisor: Robert L. Kolesar

2009 Lynn A Worobey National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Bioengineering at University of Pittsburgh

2023 Samantha Brown, Alyssa Magaha Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Creating a Multi-Robot, Multi-Human, Multi-Platform System"
Advisors: Jane Li, Carlo Pinciroli

 

2016 Sakshi Khurana Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2007 Gabriel Baldwin, Benjamin Childs, Carolyn Hunter, Victoria Urrea President's IQP Awards Third Place Undergraduate

Developing a Strategy to Improve Solar Home System Sustainability in Rural Thailand