Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2020 Brooke Honzel Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2017 Nick Bograd, Brett Carbonneau, Alexander Krasa, Benjamin Preston President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

"Northborough Composting: A Peri-Urban Land Conflict"

Advisors: Corey Denenberg Dehner and Derren Rosbach

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

2021 Kristophe Zephyrin Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Guyana Research Park Development Project

2016 Jared Kepron, Abigail Cervelloni, Ian Limon, Christian Zelaya Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering

Design and Test of a Radio-Frequency Electrothermal Thruster

Advisor: John Blandino

2021 Andrew Ressler Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
2018 Kylie Dickinson, Donald Dione, Sarah St. Pierre, Tyler Weiss President's IQP Awards Winner Undergraduate

Reducing Flood Risk in Shkodra Through Community Engagement

Advisors: Leslie Dodson and Robert Hersh

2018 Neel Dhanaraj Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

 “An Analysis of the Potential Endangerment of Immigrants Due to Merit-Based Immigration,”  advisor: Jennifer McWeeny

 

1995 Kevin M. Shea Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2016 Kevin Ackerman Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering

MASH leader, Tutor and Tutor team leader, Academic Resources Center

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
2024 Skyler Kauffman Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
2003 Nathaniel C. Liefer Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
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
1985 Diana M. Sauer Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
1974 Patricia Graham Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2010 Sara Ingrid Duran National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Engineering - Electrical and Electronic at Duke University

2015 Kimberly Marrion Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“Ethics, Dementia and Family: An Investigation into the Familial Issues that Arise with Dementia Patients,” major: Architectural Engineering, advisor: Bethel Eddy

2004 Andrew Mumford, Jessica Sulzmann and Jesse Tippett President's IQP Awards First Place Undergraduate

"Energy Efficiency Guidelines for Low-Cost Housing"

Advisors: Art Gerstenfeld and Susan-Gerstenfeld

2009 Daniel Asselin, David Beavers, Stephan Jakubowski Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering

"Investigation of Plasma Charging Effects"

Advisor: John Blandino

2015 Daniela Ruiz Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2007 Samuel Feller, Nathan Malatesta, Nicholas McMahon Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering

Advisor: Kenneth Stafford

2017 Bernat Navarro-Serer Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2020 Faye Gauthier Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Architectural Engineering
2018 Patrick Fitzgerald Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
1996 Greg Amiro Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"The Rock n' Roll Renaissance," advisor: Douglas G. Weeks

2021 Mihn Anh Kieu Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2016 Jonathan Leitschuh, Thomas Clark Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science

"GRIP: Graphically Represented Image Processing (Engine)"

Advisors: Brad Miller, Michael Gennert

2018 Maria Elizabeth Daigle Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2022 Anna Eng Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2019 Dylan R. Felty Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2014 Giovanna Cutietta Olson Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2013 Jesse Lehman Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"A Discussion of 20th Century Musical Techniques and Their Presence in Karlheinz Stockhausen's Gruppen“ , advisor: Douglas Weeks

2007 Lori A. Ferris Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2013 Shane Waterman Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics

Tutor, Physics

1997 Nicholas G. Bulat Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2022 Hannah Borges, Alexis Nichols, Shreya Puttagunta, Meghan Slaney, Chris Son Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering

“Feeding Device for Premature Infants in Low Middle-Income Countries”

Advisors: Solomon Mensah, Dirk Albrecht

2001 Frederick Tan Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2006 Amanda McCullough Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2006 Laura M. Amodeo Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry, Humanities & Arts
2011 Andrew K Capulli Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2010 Mary Yovina Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Interactive Media & Game Development
2006 Elizabeth A Norgard National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Molecular Biology at Washington University

2015 Paulo Carvalho Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“Developing and Composing for a Robotic Organ,” major: Biomedical Engineering and Robotics Engineering, minor: Electrical and Computer Engineering, advisor: Scott Barton

2008 Michael C. Hyde, Sean W. Seymour, Daniel W. Tennant, Minh H. Truong President's IQP Awards Second Place Undergraduate

"Four Tourists and Hong Kong's Harbourfront: A Survey of the Waterfront of Victoria Harbour"

Advisors: Kevin Clements, Paul Davis

2009 Aaron Holroyd, Punsak Koakiettaveechai, Brett Ponsler Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science

"Hand-Eye Coordination in a Humanoid Robot"

Advisor: Brad Miller, Charles Rich

2013 Samuel Francois Student Employee of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Career Development Center
2017 Kyla Nichols Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering

Outstanding Major Qualifying Project