Award Recipients
| Year | Recipient | Name | Title | Awarded by | Type | Department | Details |
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| 2009 | Christina Ernst | National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships | Honorable Mention | National Science Foundation | Undergraduate | For Lynn Developmental Biology at WPI |
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| 2004 | Meghan E. Smith | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemical Engineering | |
| 2007 | Danielle A. Dionne, Amanda L. Tichy, Jessica E. Sullivan-Keizer, Derrick DiConti | President's IQP Awards | Second Place | Undergraduate | "HIV/AIDS Prevention Education: A Look at the HIV/AIDS Awareness activities at the Polytechnic of Namibia" Advisors: Robert Krueger & Fred Looft |
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| 2022 | Juliette Spitael Advisor: Adryen Gonzales | Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | “Prac in HUA: Advanced Contemporary Work,” |
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| 2009 | Jessie A. Brasefield, Douglas K. Tischer | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemistry & Biochemistry | "Exploring Apoptin's Anti-Cancer Ability: Uncoupling Nucleocytoplasmic Shuttling and Multimerization" |
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| 2023 | Kirsten Roethel | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Interactive Media & Game Development | |
| 2017 | Catherine Sherman | Charles O. Thompson Scholar Outstanding Member of the Class | Honorable Mention | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | ||
| 2023 | Melanie Castillo, Jacob Gassenheimer, Michael Maffeo, Kristen Stilin | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering | "A Structural Redesign of Terminal E at Logan Airport" |
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| 2017 | Michael Sabbagh | Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize | Honorable Mention | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | ||
| 2016 | Katharine Dunphy | Charles O. Thompson Scholar Outstanding Member of the Class | Honorable Mention | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | ||
| 2016 | Adam Collins, Zach Huaman, MaryLouise Ross, Branden St.Jacques | Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | River of Mercury: Solutions for Tomorrow |
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| 2018 | Tyler McNeill | Salisbury Prize | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Biomedical Engineering | ||
| 2017 | Kyle Coleman, Aidan Mayer, Kelley Townley, Kristophe Zephyrin | Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Pedestrian and Environmentally Focused Infrastructure |
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| 2019 | Gabriela Morales Castillo | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mechanical & Materials Engineering | |
| 2024 | Gabriel Espinosa | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mechanical & Materials Engineering | |
| 2015 | Katherine Amato | The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation | Winner | The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation | Undergraduate | Chemistry & Biochemistry | |
| 2009 | Sarah Albrecht | Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | "Motives for Change: Signac's Stylistic Shift," advisor: D. Samson |
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| 2017 | Jeffrey Letourneau | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Biology & Biotechnology | "The Role of C. albicans Secreted Aspartyl Proteases (SAPS) in Phagocyte Recognition via Pathogen." |
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| 1993 | Christopher G. McKeever | Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | "From an Alphabet to Strange and Interesting Designs: an Analysis" of Musical Notation," advisor: Douglas G. Weeks |
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| 2016 | Reed Gontarek, Bryan Jung, Zachary Rahl, Emma Raymond, Lailah Thompson | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | "Manufacturing Capacity Stimulation at Primetals Technologies" Advisors: Walter Towner, Helen Vassallo |
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| 2005 | Stefan L. Slonevskiy | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Electrical & Computer Engineering | |
| 2020 | Katherine Vaz Gomes | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Professional Writing | ||
| 2014 | Anh Do | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | ||
| 1993 | Christopher S. Music | Two Towers Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | ||
| 2004 | Amanda A. Roberts | Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering | |
| 2008 | Diana Damyanova | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | ||
| 2021 | Kweku Sam Colecraft | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemical Engineering | ||
| 1998 | Sashe Kanapathi | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Electrical & Computer Engineering | |
| 2016 | Damien Joseph Cabral | National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships | Winner | National Science Foundation | Undergraduate | For Life Sciences - Microbial Biology at Brown University |
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| 2021 | Jocelyn L. Mendes | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemistry & Biochemistry | |
| 2001 | Keith Lepine | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mechanical & Materials Engineering | |
| 2002 | Lewis T Kotredes | National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships | Honorable Mention | National Science Foundation | Undergraduate | For Astrophysics at Cal Tech |
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| 2012 | Andrei Ilyashenko | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Computer Science | |
| 2010 | Blake A. Kelly, Melanie K. Donahue, Joshua D. Matte | President's IQP Awards | Second Place | Undergraduate | "Designing a Water and Sanitation Centre Prototype for Monwabisi Park, Cape Town" Advisors: S. Jiusto and J. Petruccelli |
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| 2018 | Alexander Taglieri | Peer Learning Assistant of the Year | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Computer Science | Peer Learning Assistant, Robotics Engineering |
| 2009 | Matthew Dailey, Ilan Shomorony | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mathematical Sciences | "Physically Unclonable Functions" Advisors: William Martin, Berk Sunar |
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| 2009 | Marc Balboa, Ivo Dobrev, Ryan Fosset | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mechanical & Materials Engineering | "MEMS for Real Time Imaging Applications" Advisor: Cosme Furlong-Vazquez |
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| 2023 | Luke Barckholtz, Connor Dowgielewicz, Claire Higginson, Sydney Smith | President's IQP Awards | Finalist | Undergraduate |
Dominic Golding, Sarah Riddick |
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| 2016 | Gaetano J. Scuderi | Salisbury Prize | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Biomedical Engineering | ||
| 2015 | James Macfarlane, Nelson Ndahiro, Katie Nugau, Rekik Tafesse | Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners | People’s Choice Award | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Implementing Solar Energy in Desalination Plants in Libya |
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| 2018 | Amanda Agdeppa | Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Outstanding Major Qualifying Project |
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| 2010 | Linnea M. Palmer Paton | Udall Scholarship | Honorable Mention | Udall Foundation | Undergraduate | Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering | |
| 2008 | Maggie Allard | Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | "The Butterfly (animated short)," advisor: Joshua Rosenstock |
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| 2019 | Alexander Alvarez, Grace Gerhardt, Evan Kelly, John O’Neill, Jackson Whitehouse | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Aerospace Engineering | "Design and Integration of a High-Powered Model Rocket - II." |
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| 1988 | Jeanette M. Cheetham | Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | "The Mask: a Window to Understand the Eskimos," advisor: Ruth Smith |
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| 2015 | Angelica Zawada, Tyler Alexander, Nysa Casha | Provost's MQP Awards | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Social Science & Policy Studies | "Determinants of Success in WPI Student-Led Organizations" Advisors: Jim Doyle, Sharon Wulf |
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| 2005 | Andrew L. DuFresne | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Chemistry & Biochemistry | |
| 2020 | Leah Mitchell | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | Mathematical Sciences | |
| 2014 | Paul R Bender | Salisbury Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate | ||
| 1989 | Michelle D. Petkers | Two Towers Prize | Winner | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Undergraduate |