Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2006 Sanjayan Manivannan Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2013 Rachel Handel Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"The Towers Sesquicentennial Edition", advisor: James Cocola

2017 Tyler Chaulk, Rodrigo Rivas, Ann Votta, Jacob Wennersten Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering

"Humanoid Stereoscopic Vision System."

Advisors:  Cagdas Onal, Holly Ault

2019 Johnny Wang Student Employee of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2020 Sarah Butts Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Humanities & Arts

Adaptation of Ecuadorian National Music for Chamber Music Ensemble

2021 Lauren A. Kaija Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Environmental Engineering
2005 Hunter Bennett-Daggett Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2022 Tyreese James Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
1987 Chrysanthe Demetry Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2022 Cooper Bennet Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science

Peer Learning Assistant, Robotics Engineering

2009 Joseph A. Krasinskas Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2023 Catherine Salvaggio Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate The Business School
1990 Bernard L. Dion Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"The Risk of Slavery: Warning Through Structure in 'Benito Cereno'"

2013 Nathan T Nesbitt National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Physics and Astronomy-Condensed Matter Physics at Boston College

2023 Dante Coccagnia, Domenic DiCenso, Mary Suckow Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate The Business School

"Evaluating Quality, Environmental Impact, and Economic Sustainability in Support of Benchmarking Efforts at Twelve Guns Brewing"
Advisors: Edward Gonsalves, Aaron Sakulich

 

2003 Patrick Lahar, Brittany Doucette, William Durgin President's IQP Awards Third Place Undergraduate

"Analysis Model of Resources for Costa Rican Firefighters"

Advisors: H.J. Manzari, Susan Vernon-Gerstenfeld

1994 Philip M. Muller Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2015 Eva Barinelli, Brian King, Daniel Wivagg Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Replacing Blackboard: Finding a New Learning Management System for WPI

1996 Tung L. Ng Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2018 Maria Daigle Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering, Psychological Science
2007 Donna Davidson Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology

"Inhibition of HIVβ€”1 Tatβ€”Induced Inflammation by the NFβ€”kB Subunit RelB"

Advisor: David Adams

2010 Olufunmilayo Olatokunbo Adebayo Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2016 Veroniki Nikolaki, Florentia Ong, Veronica Coyle Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology

"The Effects of Punicalagin and Tannic Acid on Caenorhabditis elegans Models of Alzheimer's Disease"

Advisor: Jagan Srinivasan

2001 Marco Fontecchio Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2019 Trung T. Tran Trong Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Industrial Engineering, Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2008 Douglas K. Tischer The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Winner The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2018 Michael Giancola Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences

"Permutation-Invariant Consensus over Crowdsourced Labels."

Advisor: Randy Paffenroth

2020 Allison Ross Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2020 Cosette Domkofski Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

β€œThose Who Endure,” advisor: Joseph Aguilar

2021 Christian Adler, Raymond Dolan, Elizabeth Kirschner, Henry Stadolnik Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Interactive Media & Game Development

Magnet Suit Game/Factory Reset

2021 Kamryn P. Spinelli Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences
2016 Xavier. J. Jackson Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
2006 Kathleen M. Ferguson Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2021 Caroline E. Dalton (CE), Daniel C. Dietrich (ME), Meng Lian (CME), Brooklynn Paris (BME) President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

The Role of Wetlands in the Ruamahanga Catchment

Advisors:  Fred Looft, Ingrid Shockey

2016 Amy M. Stevens Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2008 Hilal Tetik Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate International & Global Studies
2006 Amanda J. Tarbet Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Multimodal Tensions in the Graphic Novel," advisor: Ruth Smith

1973 Leonard J. Brzozowski Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2023 Caitlin Veltrup Charles O. Thompson Scholar Outstanding Member of the Class Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
1985 Charles Champagne Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Konrad Adenauer Erster Kanzler der Bundesrepublik," and "Ahnlichkeiten zwichen der Franzozischen Revolution und der Deutschen Revolution von 1848"

2010 Justine Roberts National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Biomedical Engineering at University of Colorado

2005 Sean P. Donovan, Alexander H. Hecht and Justin Woodwood President's IQP Awards Second Place Undergraduate

"Developing a Robotics Outreach Program"

Advisors: Brad Miller and Kenneth Stafford

2014 Andrew Peter Wolff Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2009 Nicholas Alden, Zachary Humerick, Andrew Teixeira Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering

"Molten Salt Gasification of Biomass"

Advisors: Ravindra Datta, James Dittami

1996 Shawn P. Brennan Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
2013 Kaung Myat Win Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2015 Paulo Carvalho, Sean Weaver, Anurag Kesari Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering

"Phlebot: The Robotic Phlebotomist"

Advisors: Patrick Flaherty, Gregory Fischer

2017 Gareth Solbeck Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Interactive Media & Game Development
2002 William Lucas Churchill Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2024 Regina Valencia Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering