Award Recipients
| Year | Recipient | Name | Title | Awarded by | Type | Department | Details |
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| 2019 | Joshua Driscoll | Two Towers Prize | Honorable Mention | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Biology & Biotechnology | |
| 2007 | Krystal L. Parker | Two Towers Prize | Honorable Mention | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | ||
| 2024 | Stephanie Reis | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Biology & Biotechnology | |
| 2010 | Chelsea C. Sheehan, Heidi P. Robertson | President's IQP Awards | First Place | Undergraduate | "Evaluating ‘Business Opportunities with Solar Energy in Un-Electrified Areas’ in Namibia" Advisors: R. Ludwig and S. Nikitina |
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| 2019 | Ally Salvino | Charles O. Thompson Scholar Outstanding Member of the Class | Honorable Mention | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | ||
| 2009 | Elizabeth Gould | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Physics | "Proofs of the Kochen-Specker Theorem in 3 Dimensions" Advisor: P.K. Aravind |
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| 2019 | Jessica Walsh | Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Outstanding Major Qualifying Project |
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| 2016 | William Kinkead, Connor Morette, Adrian Pickering, Zachary Sears, James Waldo | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mechanical & Materials Engineering | "Design and Optimization of a Formula SAE Vehicle" Advisor: David Planchard |
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| 2020 | Stephanie Salerno and Jacquelyn Valsamis | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Environmental Engineering | An Environmental Analysis of Recreational Cannabis Cultivation and Processing |
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| 2003 | Ryan Patrick Jones | Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | "Ministry: a Screenplay," advisor: Dean O'Donnell |
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| 2005 | Ryan M. Carey | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Biomedical Engineering | |
| 2015 | Jordan Jones (BME), Rebecca Lee (BME), Mikayla Pasciuto (ME), and Shreyas Renganathan (BME) | Strage Innovation Award | First Place | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | MilkSafe Storage Device - The MilkSafe team is prototyping an affordable lean-in-concept cooling container to store mother’s milk at appropriate temperatures for up to 16 hours. In low-income nations, such as Haiti, where electricity, refrigeration, and ice are not readily or reliably available, the team intends to use this product to facilitate storing mother’s milk while she is away from her infant at work and help reduce the number of infant deaths there due to malnutrition. |
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| 2022 | Trevor Paley | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Computer Science | |
| 2011 | Aaron P. Champagne | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering | |
| 2016 | Alexa Itsines, Katie Long, Trinity Tedsten, Carly Whittle, Kristen Southan | Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Increasing Accessible HIV Screening in Zimbabwe |
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| 2014 | Kristin Elizabeth Poti | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | ||
| 2009 | Zubin H.Patel | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemistry & Biochemistry | |
| 2015 | Evan White | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemical Engineering | ||
| 2018 | Virginia Nunez | Salisbury Prize | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Bioinformatics & Computational Biology | ||
| 2023 | Sol Giesso | Two Towers Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Environmental Engineering | |
| 1997 | Jennifer E. Yambert | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering | |
| 2014 | Michelle Ly | National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships | Honorable Mention | National Science Foundation | Undergraduate | For Environmental Engineering at University of Massachusetts Amherst |
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| 2017 | Maeghan Desmarais, Kayla Krom, Patrick Macaulay, Lara Padir, Charlotte White | Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners | People’s Choice Award | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | The Protection Page Plan |
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| 2022 | Ben Gobler | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mathematical Sciences | “The Calkin-Wilf Tree; Extensions and Applications” Advisors: Brigitte Servatius, Herman Servatius |
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| 2012 | Erin L. Armstrong | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | ||
| 2014 | Sawin Areepipatkul, Marc Gelin, Nathan Longnecker, Phornphit Manageracharath, Laura Pumphrey, Corre Steele, Nontach Thanawatyanyong | President's IQP Awards | Finalist | Undergraduate | "Development and Initiation of Sustainable Wastewater Management in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand" Advisors: Creighton Peet, Gary Pollice, Patchanita Thamyongkit (Chulalongkorn University Advisor) |
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| 2019 | Haylea T. Northcott | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Biology & Biotechnology | |
| 2003 | Jennifer M. Persico | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | ||
| 2024 | Samantha Curtis | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Psychological Science | |
| 2014 | Timothy DeFreitas | The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation | Honorable Mention | The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation | Undergraduate | Bioinformatics & Computational Biology | |
| 2008 | Dana R. Asplund, Kalun Fu, Yilmaz Kiymaz, Timothy Loughlin | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Interactive Media & Game Development | "The Alligator: A Video Game History of a Civil War Submarine" Advisor: Robert Lindeman |
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| 2017 | Nicholas Cyganski, Benjamin Gillette, Killian Henson, Keshuai Xu | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | "The Autonomous Cargo Aircraft Project (ACAP)." |
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| 2016 | Everett Baker, Tyler Bennett, James Mosteller, John Williams | President's IQP Awards | Finalist | Undergraduate | "Evaluating the Need for a Consumer Focused Smoke Alarm Performance System" Advisors: Professors Fred Looft and Briggitte Servatius |
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| 2020 | Matthew Liberacki, James Junker, Olivia Wisniewski, Brianna Owen | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Biomedical Engineering | ||
| 2020 | James Andon, Katherine Vasconcelos | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemistry & Biochemistry | BaNCE: A Simplified Model for in vivo Non-Continuous Evolution |
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| 2020 | Alejandra Garza, Dante Knight, Nancy Nguyen, James Witt | President's IQP Awards | Finalist | Undergraduate | Improving Emergency Preparedness in Monte Verde Costa Rica WPI Advisors: R.Creighton Peet and William San Martin |
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| 2021 | Khadijah Ibrahim | Crimson and Gray Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | |||
| 1997 | Jeffrey L. Bayko | Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | "The Road to Jensenism (1923-1969)," advisor: Michael M. Sokal |
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| 2021 | Brooke E. Dawson | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mechanical & Materials Engineering | |
| 1999 | Erica L. Tworog | Two Towers Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | ||
| 1986 | James B. Hannon | Two Towers Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | ||
| 2022 | Alden Johnson Advisor: Rebecca Moody | Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities | Honorable Mention | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | "Gender in Wrestling: A Breakdown Beyond the Takedown" |
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| 1995 | David J. Custodio | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering | |
| 2010 | Tanvir Madan | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Electrical & Computer Engineering | |
| 2023 | Julia Sheats | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mechanical & Materials Engineering | |
| 1997 | Joyelle K. Howk | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | ||
| 2011 | Erik D Carlson | National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships | Honorable Mention | National Science Foundation | Undergraduate | For Chemical Engineering at Northwestern University |
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| 2016 | Zoe Schwartz | Undergraduate | |||||
| 2018 | Hyunsoo Kim | Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Outstanding Major Qualifying Project |
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| 2023 | Claire Behning, Amanda Holbrook | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Social Science & Policy Studies, Psychological Science | "Exploring the Effect of CBD on C. elegans with 6-OHDA-induced Parkinson's Disease to Determine Potential Therapeutic Effects " |