Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2014 Arman Uygur Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering

Tutor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

2018 Charles Lovering Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
2017 Emily Baker, Matthew Bisson, Scott Rementer Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Speaking to Success

2019 Jessica R. Locke Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Environmental Engineering
2024 Benjamin Antupit Two Towers Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Robotics Engineering
2006 Molly Conforte Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
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
1984 Virginia Ruth Noddin Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
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

2009 Shawn P. Carey Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical 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

2009 Elizabeth J Stewart National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Chemical Engineering at University of Michigan Ann Arbor

2015 Kyle J. Hudgins 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

2014 Weifan Liu Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
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

2016 Katherine R. Picchoine Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
1996 Deborah J. Fraser Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
1999 Jessica T. Sands Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Humanities & Arts
2017 Natalie S Wellen Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences
2016 Charles Frick Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Outstanding Major Qualifying Project

2002 Lauren Elizabeth Wojtkun Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Humanities & Arts
2020 Natalie Bloniarz Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Interactive Media & Game Development
2021 Bhanuj Jain Student Employee of the Year Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate International House
2022 Natalie Mohn Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate The Business School
2017 Daniel Shrives, Grayson Baum Strage Innovation Award First Place Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

β€œRowing Telemetry System (RTS)” RTS is a modified oarlock capable of collecting performance metrics allowing coaches to make the changes in rowers’ forms that win races. 

2015 Nolan Bell, Dylan Felty, Chenggu Wang, Katherine Williamson Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Rooftop Rainwater Collection System on the Innovation Studio

2023 Robert Oleynick Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2018 Ankur Gupta Charles O. Thompson Scholar Outstanding Member of the Class Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
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

2024 Joshua Kleiman Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Industrial Engineering
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
2005 Hilal Tetik Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Robert Fludd's 'De Musica Mundana' and the Ideals of the Rasicrucian Brotherhood," advisor: Lee Fontanella

2018 Abigail Hanson, Joshua Mace, Frederick Metters, Nicole Sherlock Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering

"Design of a Topical Antimicrobial Peptide Delivery Vehicle for the Treatment of Acne Vulgaris."

Advisor: Marsha Rolle

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

For Biomedical Engineering at WPI

1984 Daniel Weinshenker Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Facing Nuclear Threat"

2003 Jeffrey M Savard National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon

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

1994 Sando Becz, Jr. Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials 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

1996 Keith A. Barrett Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
1999 Harish Chawla Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2003 Michael Veilleux Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2021 Jillian Forauer Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2016 Karen Fitch, Kathryn Gillis, Abby Harrison Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering

"Digital Programmable Gaussian Noise Generator"

Advisor: Edward Clancy

2022 Nick Tomasetti, Nico Alvarado, Ben Mason, Anonymous Sustainability Project Competition Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Office of Sustainability

Using Media to Influence Agricultural Perceptions on Climate Change

2017 Ethan Coeytaux, Cameron Crook, Alexandre Pauwels, Hugh Whelan Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

5-Axis 3D Printing

 

2023 Abigail Leonardi Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2023 Alana Miska Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering

"Development of Module for Fire Dynamics"
Advisor: James Urban