Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2007 Rebecca C. Baron Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“A Change in Expectations: Staging of Dueling in Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet and Hamlet,” advisor Michelle Ephraim
2010 Danielle Volpe Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Environmental Engineering
1986 Chrysanthe Demetry Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Healing and Growing: American Civil War Fiction," advisor: John Zeugner
2022 Maria Decelles Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2019 Nathaniel S. Dennler Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
1994 Mark R. Fuzzetti Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
2013 Damien Cabral Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"The Origins of Muslim Extremism" , advisor:  W.A. Bland Addison
1998 Man Ching Cheung Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2019 Behnam Partopour Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate

Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation
1999 Pavel Murnikov Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
2002 Evan Andrew Gilman Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2012 Pan Liu Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences
2017 Lubna Hassan Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering

Outstanding Major Qualifying Project
2007 Amanda N. McCullough Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2016 Julien Ataya, Gregory Kashmanian, Jeremy Koen, Gavin Sabol, Joseph Yuen Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Providing Potable Water to Peruvian Informal Settlements
2008 Tyler A. Chase Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences
2002 Amanda A. Roberts Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Sequencing within the Short Story Collection: An Experiment in Design and Practice," advisor: John Trimbur
2022 Adrianna Staszewska Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science, Data Science
2019 Samantha Randall Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
1995 Kevin M. Shea Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2011 Sarah Mattessich The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Winner The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2023 Catherine Reynolds Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
1997 Robert W. Shivitz Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
2000 Joseph D. Lussier Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
2003 Nathaniel C. Liefer Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2014 Jedediah Perron Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“Going Out With A Bang: The American Supersonic Transport and the Environmental Movement” Major: Aerospace Engineering. Advisor: Thomas Robertson
2001 Katherine C. Wheeler Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
1988 Brett A. Pauer Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
1980 Bonnie J. Cook Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2021 Gabriel Espinosa; Alexander Wadsworth; Jack Hanlon Sustainability Project Competition Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Office of Sustainability

Small Scale Carbon Capture Implementation and Utilization at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
1997 Daniel Murphy Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"The American Dream: Has it Become Unreachable," advisor: William A. Baller
2013 Alexandra Clemente National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Neurosciences at MIT
2021 Enzo Giglio de Azevedo Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2018 Siddhant Pandey Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Outstanding Major Qualifying Project
2024 Ben Kresge. Advisor: John Sanbonmatsu Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science

Scholarship:  "Having it Both Ways:  Can I be a Moral Omnivore?"
2013 Michael Morin Teaching Assistant of the Year Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2023 Frederick "Forrest" Miller Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences

Peer Learning Assistant, Mathematical Sciences
1995 Erik S. Alldredge Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
2004 Christin T. Reynolds Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship Winner Rotary Foundation Graduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2023 Spencer Francis Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
1997 David Eron Flory Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2012 Amanda J. Bowden Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2004 Benjamin J. Lauser Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
2012 Anthony G. Spangenberger Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2008 Katherine H. Woodman Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering, Humanities & Arts
2020 Scarlet Shell Sigma Xi Outstanding Junior Faculty Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Biology & Biotechnology

Outstanding Junior Faculty Researcher
2010 Andrew Marchese Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
1991 Eric R. Bell Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Reagan Administration Foreign Policy Toward Dictatorships: A Comparative Study"
2010 Kevin James Gagnon National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Chemistry - Inorganic at Texas A&M University
2021 Andrew Ressler Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Bioinformatics & Computational Biology