Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2023 Robert Oleynick Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2022 Benjamin Beliveau, Lillian Taylor, and Delaney Tedtsen Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Environmental Engineering

β€œLead and Copper Corrosion in Drinking Water Systems 

Advisor: Jeanine Dudley

2017 Natalie S Wellen Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences
2016 Samantha Ervin Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate International & Global Studies
2015 Elizabeth van Zyl Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2012 Justin Rice Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

β€œModernization in the Western Himalayas: Himachal Pradesh and the Apple Industry”, Advisor:  Thomas Robertson

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

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

"FPGA Real-Time Stoplight Detection"

Advisor: Xinming Huang

2007 Diana M. Otalvaro-Gutierrez Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
1995 Keith T. Jones Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
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

2008 Charles A.Gammal III Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2021 Robert Starr Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2013 Brenna Pugliese Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2016 Marissa Bennett Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2017 Ben Pulver National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Biomedical Engineering at WPI

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"

2000 Cheryl K. Eddins Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2019 Katherine Handy Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2003 Jeffrey M Savard National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon

2004 Stephanie C. Thomas Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering, Chemistry & Biochemistry
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

2023 Matthew Dzwil Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Data Science
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

 

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
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

2024 Benjamin Antupit Two Towers Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Robotics 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

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

2012 Sarah Mattessich Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
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

2011 Lydia George Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
1989 Kim E. Cloutier Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2013 Chuqiao Yang Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2018 Charles Lovering Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
2009 Ilan Shomorony Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mathematical Sciences
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

1998 Eric F. Pauly Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2017 Emily Baker, Matthew Bisson, Scott Rementer Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Speaking to Success

2014 Jennifer Lynn Moutinho National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Environmental Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology

2021 Sabrina T. Liu Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2001 Jonathan Moussa Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences, Physics
2019 Jessica R. Locke Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Environmental Engineering
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

2012 Andrei Ilyanshenko Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
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
2020 Nazanin Beigi Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology

Peer Learning Assistant, Psychology

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