Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2010 Patrick DeSantis, James Montgomery, Sean Levesque President's IQP Awards Second Place Undergraduate

"An Electronic Interface to Aid in Learning How to Play a Musical Instrument"

Advisors: F. Bianchi and A. Wyglinski

2009 Daniel Tennant, Julia Berg, Joseph Strong Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Interactive Media & Game Development

"Petrified"

Advisor: Robert W. Lindeman

2016 Zachary Harmony, Erin Murphy, Jillian Proulx, Jeremy Soderholm Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering

"Gateway Student Center"

Advisors: Leonard Albano, Leffi Cewe-Molloy, Kenneth Elovitz

2020 Natalie Bloniarz Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Interactive Media & Game Development
2017 Nicole Mattson Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“For Every Hour:  Twenty-Four Prose Poems,” advisor: Joshua Harmon

2021 Bhanuj Jain Student Employee of the Year Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate International House
2016 Marissa Bennett Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2019 Katherine Handy Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2022 Natalie Mohn Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate The Business School
2012 Justin Rice Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“Modernization in the Western Himalayas: Himachal Pradesh and the Apple Industry”, Advisor:  Thomas Robertson

2023 Robert Oleynick Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
1999 Amelia A. Gilbreath Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Flute Recital," advisor: Douglas G. Weeks

2022 Benjamin Beliveau, Lillian Taylor, and Delaney Tedtsen Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Environmental Engineering

“Lead and Copper Corrosion in Drinking Water Systems 

Advisor: Jeanine Dudley

2012 Sarah Mattessich Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
1989 Kim E. Cloutier Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2016 Samantha Ervin Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate International & Global Studies
1995 Keith T. Jones Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2009 Ilan Shomorony Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mathematical Sciences
2015 Elizabeth van Zyl Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2013 Brenna Pugliese Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2014 Jennifer Lynn Moutinho National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Environmental Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology

2000 Cheryl K. Eddins Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2016 Reynaldo Duran Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Painting a Bridge Between Past and Future," advisor: W.A. Bland Addison and Kristin Boudreau

2024 Benjamin Antupit Two Towers Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Robotics Engineering
2004 Stephanie C. Thomas Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering, Chemistry & Biochemistry
2008 Chelsea Bierkan, Courtney Rheault, Katharine Woodman Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering

"Adaptive Reuse Plan for the Worcester County Courthouse"

Advisor: Leonard ALbano

2015 Michael Derryberry, Jermiah McCarthy Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering

"FPGA Real-Time Stoplight Detection"

Advisor: Xinming Huang

2018 Charles Lovering Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
2021 Robert Starr Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2017 Emily Baker, Matthew Bisson, Scott Rementer Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Speaking to Success

2021 Sage Ortega-Shue advisor: Joseph Cullon Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"The Appropriation of Defensible Space"

2019 Jessica R. Locke Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Environmental Engineering
2017 Brandon Clark The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Winner The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Undergraduate Chemical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering
2010 Aakrit Bhakhri Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“Muslim Separatism and Identity in India: Aftermath of the Partition of 1947,” advisor: Ruth Smith

2017 Christopher Pierce Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics

"Removal of Accidental Degeneracy in Cubic Quantum Dots."

Advisor: L. Ramdas Ram-Mohan

2023 Matthew Dzwil Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Data Science
1994 Shaun P. Heaney Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"The Construction of New Union Station: A Product of Worcester's Grade Crossing Problem," advisor: James P. Watters

2023 Madison Gass, Grace Jolin, Isabel Nearing, Kathryn Woodland Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering

"Detecting Ice Nucleation in Supercooled Red Blood Cell Samples"
Advisors: Sakthikumar Ambady, Ahmet Can Sabuncu

 

2012 Janine Pizzimenti Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2016 Caitlin Marie Swalec Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
2011 Lydia George Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2011 Dan Bjorge Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
2016 Kelly Beisswanger Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2013 Chuqiao Yang Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2007 Colin J. DeGraf Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
2013 Kun Peng Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2009 Neal K. Humphrey Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Psychological Science
1998 Emma Palmacci Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2011 Shawn P Carey National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University

2001 Paul Laplume Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering