Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2011 Evald Muraj Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2014 Xinxin Ding Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2011 Jeffrey C. Marrion Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2013 Cindy S. Lin Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2017 Sarah Kaptur National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Cell Biology at Brown University
1999 Derek P. Bond Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2003 Matthew J Streeter National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Computer Science at Stanford
2003 Orest Skoplyak Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
2012 Adam Cadwallader, Victoria Hewey, Evren Simsek, Santiago Isaza President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

"Supporting Urban Beekeeping Livelihood Strategies in Cape Town"

Advisors: Scott Jiusto and Steve Taylor 
2009 Elisabeth Beinke, Keilin Bickar, Joshua Doyle, Alexander Schwartz Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Interactive Media & Game Development

"Memory Dash - a Multiplayer iPhone Game"

Advisor: David Finkel
2007 Nate Piper Student Employee of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Undergraduate Admissions
2016 Sakshi Khurana Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2020 Kyle Wood Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2018 Emma MacIntyre Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2021 Nasim Mansuri Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Professional Writing

Best Practices for Adapting Manufacturing Documentation
2017 Lokesh Gangaramaney, Manon Miller, Despina Tomboulides Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Fighting Ignorance: Freshmen Malnutrition
2015 Christina Noyes, Samantha Ervin, Julia LaValley, Jacob Mercier, Jonathan Mirabito President's IQP Awards Winner Undergraduate

Building Hope: Empowerment through Improving Facilities at the Sizakuyenza Safe House

Advisors: Professors Scott Jiusto and Stephen McCauley  
2022 Caitlin Kuzma Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Industrial Engineering
2024 Trevor Bush Two Towers Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2019 Shion Matsumoto Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2016 Brandon Clark The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Honorable Mention The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Undergraduate Chemical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering
2012 Syed Athar Bin Amir Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“An Evaluation of the Terror”, Advisor:  Bland Addison
2013 Zijian "Donnie" Xia Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

Peer Learning Assistant, Chemistry
2017 Natalie Wellen Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences

"Modeling Over the Counter Derivative Trading with and without Central Clearing Parties."

Advisor: Stephan Sturm
1999 Richard E. Harang Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Mind and Materialism," advisor: Marianne Janack
2023 May Flores Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2015 Melissa Dery, Kyle Gerlack, Zachery Johnson, Maya Rhinehard Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Environmental Engineering

"Optimizing CoMag System Operations: Billerica, Mass., Wastewater Treatment Plant"

Advisors: John Bergendahl, Jeanine Plummer
2005 Brian L. Ellis Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
2007 Katherine A. Kelly Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
1995 Lori A. Jensen Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2009 Alexandra M. Sanseverino Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2011 Tayeisha Jackson Two Towers Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2014 Michal Talmor National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Mechanical Engineering at WPI
2000 Emrah Diril Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2016 Cody Slater Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"The Temporal Expression of Consciousness," advisor: Jennifer McWeeny
2004 Ravi Srinivasan Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences
2008 Neal Orman Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science

"GPU Optimization of an Existing Free-Viewpoint Video System"

Advisor: Robert Lindeman
2016 Victor W. Hu Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
2015 Nidhi M. Diwakar Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2015 Ginger Adams, Melissa Galgano, Kylie Juarez, Mercedes McDermott Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Taking the Higher Ground: Growing Cleaner on Boston's Rooftop Farm
2016 Montana Paige Myatt Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2021 Robbie Starr CARE (Courageous, Aware, Responsible, Exceptional) Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2018 Jameel Gammal Charles O. Thompson Scholar Outstanding Member of the Class Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2015 Joseph Hill, Hailey Cambra, David Knutson, Sunny Sang Nguyen President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

A Case Study in Costa Rica: The Impacts of Refrigerants

Advisors: Professors Aarti Madan and Ryan Madan
2021 Connor Anderson, Achu Balasubramanian, Henry Poskanzer Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science

Studying and Visualizing Contagion on Graphs
2022 Callan Moriarty Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate The Business School
2024 Caitlin Ho Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences
2010 Xiaoyun Wang & Chang Liu Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“The Saint Archer” (animated short film), advisor: Joshua Rosenstock
2023 Amanda Holbrook Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2018 Jordan Burklund, Hans Johnson, Travis Norris, Liam Shanahan Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"SailBot 2017-18."

Advisors: Prof. Kenneth Stafford, William Michalson