Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2020 Petra Kumi Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences

Anomaly Detection in Time Series Brain Data Generated by Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy

2006 Molly Conforte Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
1984 Virginia Ruth Noddin Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2021 Jessica M. Kelly Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Bioinformatics & Computational Biology

Investigating the relationship between mRNA degradation rates and secondary structure in mycobacteria

2009 Shawn P. Carey Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2021 Sabrina T. Liu Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2009 Elizabeth J Stewart National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Chemical Engineering at University of Michigan Ann Arbor

2018 Cielo Sharkus Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2006 Nicole J Labbe, Nicholas S McBride, Ethan Malcolm Ray President's IQP Awards First Place Undergraduate

Erosion and Flood Control in the Informal Settlements of Windhoek, Namibia

2020 Nazanin Beigi Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology

Peer Learning Assistant, Psychology

2009 David Munger Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering

"The Use of Photoresist Derived Carbon as Microelectrodes for Genetic Assays"

Advisor: Susan Zhou

2004 David J. LeRay The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Winner The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences, Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2023 Alex Friedman Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Professional Writing

"A Rhetorical Framework for Programming Language Design"
Advisor: Yunus Telliel

 

2017 Natalie S Wellen Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences
2016 Caitlin Marie Swalec Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
2016 Kelly Beisswanger Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2010 Aakrit Bhakhri Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

β€œMuslim Separatism and Identity in India: Aftermath of the Partition of 1947,” advisor: Ruth Smith

2015 John Cotter, Victor Hu, Alejandro Miranda, Hannah Reinertsen President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

Evaluation of the Feasibility of Establishing a Waste Collection Facility to Serve the Community of Cantera

Advisors: Lauren Mathews and Tina-Marie Ranalli

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

2011 Lydia George Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2013 Chuqiao Yang Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
1998 Eric F. Pauly Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2001 Jonathan Moussa Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences, Physics
2012 Andrei Ilyanshenko Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
2020 Robert Wondolowski Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences
2007 Diana M. Otalvaro-Gutierrez Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
2008 Charles A.Gammal III Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2017 Nicole Mattson Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

β€œFor Every Hour:  Twenty-Four Prose Poems,” advisor: Joshua Harmon

2021 Catherine M. Hogan Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics

Computational Characterization of a Millimeter-Wave Heat Exchanger with AlN:Mo Cylindrical Susceptors

2017 Ben Pulver National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Biomedical Engineering at WPI

2016 Marissa Bennett Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2022 Maya Ellis Two Towers Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2003 Jeffrey M Savard National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon

2019 Katherine Handy Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
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

2014 Arman Uygur Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering

Tutor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

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 Katherine R. Picchoine Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
1989 Sharon A. Savage Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"How the Organic and Mechanistic Conceptions of Life Apply to the Body and to Medicine," advisor: Iris Young

2016 Charles Frick Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Outstanding Major Qualifying Project

2015 Kyle J. Hudgins Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2014 Weifan Liu Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
1994 Matthew W. Martin Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
1996 Elena Florintsev Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
1999 Isaac B. Rutel Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
2002 Rocco William Moretti Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2005 Brian L. Ellis Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
2020 Ramona Bago Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2007 Katherine A. Kelly Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2009 Alexandra M. Sanseverino Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology