Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2022 Casey Willis Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2019 Daniel Ottey Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering

Peer Learning Assistance, Academic Resource Center

2016 Emma Healey Student Employee of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Career Development Center
2023 Colby Frechette, Iris Morin Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Social Science & Policy Studies

Monitoring Ocean Microplastics Through Citizen Science"
Advisors: Laureen Elgert, George Heineman

 

2015 Andrew Beaupre, Tyle Collins, Aras Nehir Keskin, Cody Woodard-Wallace Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering

"Design and Production of a 3-D Printed Wireless Hexapod"

Advisor: David Planchard

2002 Nina K. Simon Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2011 Evald Muraj Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Humanities & Arts
2010 Genevieve Vittori Boman Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
2004 Patrick A. Hogan Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Dying by Inches: Imperialism and Asian Famines," advisor: Peter H. Hansen

2014 Joseph James Szafarowicz National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Civil Engineering at WPI

1983 Martin Joseph Pierce Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2024 Alex Ballentine Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering
2016 Benjamin Huchley Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Online Avatars: An Expression of the User's Self," advisor: Jennifer McWeeny

2020 Karitta Zellerbach Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
1995 Maria A. Valencia Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2016 Austin Hartshorn, Nicoli Liedtke, Joseph Petitti, Julian Pinzer Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Group Effort: Study Group Matching Service

2008 Briana Morey, Ravi Vasudevan Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering

"100W Class D Audio Amplifier"

Advisors: John McNeil, Andrew Klein

1996 Noah L. Weisleder Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2018 Swarnadeep Majumder Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
2021 Luigi Apollon, Kathryn Nippert, Emily Stead Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Psychological Science

Selegiline: The Effects of Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors on the Behavior and Physiology of Caenorhabditis Elegans

2013 Ross S. Desmond Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2017 Camryn Berry, Shanna Bonanno, Michelle Fleming, Deborah Fontanez, Talia Vaughn Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Are You the One? Familial Hypercholesterolemia in Worcester, MA

2022 Agathe Lasnier Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences
2003 Nina K. Simon Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2019 Vincent C. Miller Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Interactive Media & Game Development
2016 Victor W. Hu Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
2016 Jeffrey Letourneau The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Honorable Mention The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2016 Montana Paige Myatt Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2013 Aaron Benjamin Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

Tutor and MASH leader, Academic Resources Center

2017 Siro Fritzmann, Elizabeth Hansen, Amber Munderville, Michael Sullivan, Tyler Turchiarelli Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences

"Projecting the Ultimate Loss of Catastrophic Events."

Advisors: Jon Abraham, Barry Posterro

2015 Joseph Hill, Hailey Cambra, David Knutson, Sunny Sang Nguyen President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

A Case Study in Costa Rica: The Impacts of Refrigerants

Advisors: Professors Aarti Madan and Ryan Madan

2023 Devon Poisson Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2000 Nicholas F. Arcolano Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2007 Kathryn P. Carpenter Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2012 Ting Ting Wang Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“Union Carbide and the Bhopal Incident: An American Company in a Third World Nation During the Cold War”, Advisor:  Thomas Robertson

2009 Philip N. Hanson Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
1999 Corbin T. Hodder Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Toothpaste and Orange Juice: a Play," advisor: Dean O'Donnell

2011 Andrew D Marchese National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Artificial Intelligence at MIT

2011 Douglas K Tischer National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Cell Biology at UC-San Francisco

2024 Gabriel Espinosa Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2003 Richard Ballard, Andrew Fowler, Colin Joyce, Jason Myatt President's IQP Awards Undergraduate

"Sustainable Development Mini-Guides"

Advisor: Hossein Hakim

2015 Jinghan Wu Two Towers Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering, Professional Writing
1995 Matthew W. Heath Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2015 Patrick Meehan, Ty Moquin, Zachary Weiland, Qindong Zhang Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Rain Gardens in Worcester

2007 Brian Foley, Sean Hallinan, Hans Jensen Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering

"Non—Invasive Metal Detection"

Advisors: Stephen Bitar, Reinhold Ludwig, Sergey Makarov

2013 Nouran Abdelfattah Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2017 Rachel M Connolly Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2001 Anthony Zamarro Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
2022 Rose Noggle Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2004 Meghan E. Smith Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering