Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
1989 Kim E. Cloutier Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
1989 Michelle D. Petkers Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
1988 Brett A. Pauer Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
1988 Patrick P. Dunn Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Humanities & Arts
1988 Thomas A. Shannon Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Humanities & Arts
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

1988 Michael M. Sokal Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Humanities & Arts
1988 Marc J. Champagne Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"American Gas Mask Research During World War I," advisor: W.A. Bland Addison

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

1987 Richard D. Sisson Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Mechanical & Materials Engineering
1987 Chrysanthe Demetry Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
1987 Michael W. Klein Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Physics
1987 Shawn D. Harrison Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"NiΓ©pce, Daguerre and Talbot: the Motives Behind the Men," advisor: E. Malcolm Parkinson

1987 Edward C. Hein Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"A Psychological Assessment of Lee Iacocca," advisor: Patrick P. Dunn

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

1986 James B. Hannon Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
1986 Dan H. Wolaver Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Electrical & Computer Engineering
1986 Alexander E. Emanuel Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Electrical & Computer Engineering
1986 Chrysanthe Demetry Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Healing and Growing: American Civil War Fiction," advisor: John Zeugner

1986 Robert Provost Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"African Percussion," advisors: David McKay and Richard Falco

1986 Nancy Teasdale Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"I Don't Have to Cry for the Rest of My Life," advisor: Susan Vick

1985 Jeanne M. Benjamin Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Pet-Facilitated Therapy for the Elderly"

1985 Charles Champagne Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Konrad Adenauer Erster Kanzler der Bundesrepublik," and "Ahnlichkeiten zwichen der Franzozischen Revolution und der Deutschen Revolution von 1848"

1985 Rita Patel Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"The Light Burning in the Heart: A Comparative Analysis of the Concepts of the Soul in Hinduism, Plato, and Aristotle"

1985 Diana M. Sauer Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
1985 John F. Zeugner Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Humanities & Arts
1985 Leonard B. Sand Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Chemical Engineering
1984 Elke Rudensteiner Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty Computer Science

USA/Germany

1984 Barbara Jean Gray Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"The Development of American Blackfaced Minstrelsy"

1984 Walter F. Precourt, III Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Henry V: Shakespeare's Ideal King"

1984 Daniel Weinshenker Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Facing Nuclear Threat"

1984 David Cyganski Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Electrical & Computer Engineering
1984 Virginia Ruth Noddin Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
1984 Alvin H. Weiss Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Chemical Engineering
1983 Marion S. Keeler Truman Scholarship Winner Harry S. Truman Foundation Undergraduate
1983 Julie Anne Beberman Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
1983 Martin Joseph Pierce Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
1983 JoAnne Shatkin Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
1983 Hartley T. Grandin, Jr Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Mechanical & Materials Engineering
1983 Leonard Goodwin Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Social Science & Policy Studies
1983 David P. McKay Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Humanities & Arts
1983 Jack A. Nickerson, Jr. Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
1982 Heather D. MacDonald Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
1982 Alexander E. Emanuel Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Electrical & Computer Engineering
1982 Audrey L. Muggleton-Harris Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Biology & Biotechnology
1981 Kevin A. Clements Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Electrical & Computer Engineering
1981 James W. Pavlik Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Chemistry & Biochemistry
1981 Carol L. D'Autrechy Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
1980 Bonnie J. Cook Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
1980 Allen H. Hoffman Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Mechanical & Materials Engineering