Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2003 Erin Hicks, Justin Johnson, Michael Torilli President's IQP Awards Third Place Undergraduate

"Water Management in the Upper Catchment of the Kuiseb River Basin"

Advisors: Steven Pierson; Creighton Peet

2020 Jessica Hatt Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2017 Alexander Alvarez, Julia Dunn, Katharine Dunphy, Alexander Lemmon President's IQP Awards Winner Undergraduate

"Improving Eye Care Delivery Through Data Sharing Technology"

Advisors: Michael Aghajanian and Diran Apelian

2008 Michael Demers, Ryan Lehrmitt, Robert Pantalone Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Manufacturing Engineering

"High-efficiency Coolant Nozzle Design for Abrasive Wire Wafer Slicing Machine"

Advisor: Yiming Rong

2021 Colleen O'Malley Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2018 Erik Langberg, Thomas Mackintosh, Stephanie Marcucci, Eli Skeggs President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

Weighing Perceived Values of Tinguely's Sculptures Against Technically Advanced Conservation

Advisors: Daniel DiMassa

2022 Gabriela Chong Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
2018 Jared Grier Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“Acquired Disability and Disruption of the Self,”  advisor: Jennifer McWeeny

2013 Yunqiu "Barbara" Sun Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry, Professional Writing

Tutor and MASH leader, Academic Resources Center

2016 Catherine Bonner, Jeremiah Campanelli Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences

Pricing of XVA for Options in Discrete Time

Advisors: Stephan Sturm, Gu Wang

2022 Kylie Belanger Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology

“Metaphase Chromosome Alignment is Sensitive to Dynein-Dependent Forces at the Cell Cortex”

Advisor: Amity Manning

2008 Ryan Whetstone Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Jazz Saxophone Performance; From Swing to Fusion," advisor: Richad Falco

1987 Richard D. June Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"William Carlos Williams' Paterson: the Voice of a Nation," advisor: Laura J. Menides

2006 Paul M. Ingemi Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2014 Nicholas J. Noons Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2011 Christopher Kevorkian Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
1996 Robert A. Borrelli Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2009 Michael L. Diamant Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
1998 Man Ching Cheung Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2010 Andrew Marchese Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
1999 Pavel Murnikov Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
2010 Kevin James Gagnon National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Chemistry - Inorganic at Texas A&M University

2002 Evan Andrew Gilman Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials 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

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?"

2012 Jonathan Cline, Emily Domingue, Emily Fournier, Marco Villar President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

"Sustainable Paper Insulation for Kambashus in Informal Settlements of Namibia"

Advisors: Svetlana Nikitina and Thomas Robertson

2019 Carly Pereira Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2009 Jeremy Chapman, Nathaniel Law Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering

"Mechanical Autonomous Jellyfish"

Advisor: Michael Demetriou

2015 Daniel Gendin Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences

"Mathematical Model of Laminate Materials"

Advisor: Burt Tilley

2018 Megan Errichetti Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2007 Jessica Clark, Sean Mulready Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences

"Optimal Portfolio Analysis with Turnover Constraints"

Advisor: Arthur Heinricher

2015 Rachel Blakely Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
2018 Mary Rose Davis Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2017 Peter Melander Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
2019 Nathaniel S. Dennler Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
2022 Adrianna Staszewska Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science, Data Science
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

2023 Catherine Reynolds Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2016 Jacqueline Ngo Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Social Science & Policy Studies

"Durable Technologies for Producing Public Goods"

Advisor: Alex Smith 

2022 Elaine Chen Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Professional Writing

“A Tsuboniwa: A Garden Dream” 

Advisors: Yunus Telliel, Jennifer deWinter

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

2006 Laura E. Baldassari Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
1995 Kevin M. Shea Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2008 Oana Luca Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
1997 Robert W. Shivitz Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
2010 Danielle Volpe Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Environmental Engineering
2000 Joseph D. Lussier Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
2006 Yuko Oku National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Biochemistry at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

2003 Nathaniel C. Liefer Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2014 Xuan He Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“Faith Healing” Major: Biomedical Engineering. Advisor: Bethel Eddy