Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2016 Emma Healey Student Employee of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Career Development Center
2021 Luigi Apollon, Kathryn Nippert, Emily Stead Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Psychological Science

Selegiline: The Effects of Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors on the Behavior and Physiology of Caenorhabditis Elegans
1988 Christopher J. Buntil Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Give and Take: Anencephalic Babies as Organ Donors," advisor: Thomas A. Shannon
2022 Agathe Lasnier Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences
1994 Trevor J. Lewis Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2013 Aaron Benjamin Peer Learning Assistant of the Year Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

Tutor and MASH leader, Academic Resources Center
1999 Anna Matzal Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2018 Elizabeth Towle Student Employee of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Information Technology Services
2023 Devon Poisson Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2013 Erika DiLorenzo Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2017 Abigail Elizabeth King Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2015 Andrew Beaupre, Tyle Collins, Aras Nehir Keskin, Cody Woodard-Wallace Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering

"Design and Production of a 3-D Printed Wireless Hexapod"

Advisor: David Planchard
2002 Yakov Kronrod Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
2019 Erika Miyajima Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Undergraduate
2024 Alex Ballentine Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering
2012 Murtaza T. Thahirally Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Social Science & Policy Studies
2008 Russell Morin Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2009 Alexia D. Bililies Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Humanities & Arts, International & Global Studies
2009 Justine Roberts National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Biomedical at University of Colorado at Boulder
2007 Michael A. Irace, James P. Chryssanthaacopoulos, Chukwunomso Agunwamba, Eyuel Abebe, Muzhtaba Tawkeer Islam President's IQP Awards Third Place Undergraduate

Demand Response Programs in the Greater Boston Area
2009 Daniel W. Carney Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

"Singlet Oxygen Trapping Porphyrins"

Advisor: Robert E. Connors
2017 Ana Giacoman Favela Charles O. Thompson Scholar Outstanding Member of the Class Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2017 Nicholas Shannon Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2016 Victor W. Hu Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
2015 Nidhi M. Diwakar Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
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
2004 Patrick A. Hogan Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Dying by Inches: Imperialism and Asian Famines," advisor: Peter H. Hansen
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
1983 Martin Joseph Pierce Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2022 Callan Moriarty Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate The Business School
1995 Maria A. Valencia Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2016 Austin Hartshorn, Nicoli Liedtke, Joseph Petitti, Julian Pinzer Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Group Effort: Study Group Matching Service
2023 Amanda Holbrook Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
1996 Noah L. Weisleder Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2018 Swarnadeep Majumder Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
2022 Clarissa Casilla Luzardo, Hannah Gelman, Alejandro Gerov Armas, Abigail Perlee Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Industrial Engineering

“WPI Dining Services Delivery Plan”

Advisor: Sara Saberi
2013 Ross S. Desmond Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2017 Camryn Berry, Shanna Bonanno, Michelle Fleming, Deborah Fontanez, Talia Vaughn Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Are You the One? Familial Hypercholesterolemia in Worcester, MA
2005 Martin D. Driggs Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2003 Nina K. Simon Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2019 Vincent C. Miller Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Interactive Media & Game Development
2024 Caitlin Ho Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences
2007 Fernando M. Olloqui Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2016 Jeffrey Letourneau The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Honorable Mention The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2008 Christina L. Ernst Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2017 Siro Fritzmann, Elizabeth Hansen, Amber Munderville, Michael Sullivan, Tyler Turchiarelli Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences

"Projecting the Ultimate Loss of Catastrophic Events."

Advisors: Jon Abraham, Barry Posterro
2017 Christine Elizabeth Carbone National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Biochemistry at WPI
2002 Win D Cheung National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Biochemistry at Johns Hopkins