Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2022 Silvana Reid Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

“Assessment of Nucleotide Labeling to Determine Organization of DNA Replication”

Advisor: Destin Heilman

2016 Celeste Marsan Charles O. Thompson Scholar Outstanding Member of the Class Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2024 Jillian Crandall. Advisor: Despoina Giapoudzi Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology

Performing Arts:  “Directing is Like a FishBowl: A Project Portfolio.”   

 

 

2015 Connor Gillespie, Brien Hard, Casey Rota, Saloni Sachar President's IQP Awards First Runner Up Undergraduate

Lighting the Way to Fire Safety: Reducing Fire Risk in Namibia's Informal Sector Housing

Advisors: Professors Holly Ault and Tom Robertson

 

2012 Satia Miller Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Psychological Science
2007 Erika S. Hall Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2010 Rui Dai Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2003 Gregory I. Ratner Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"The Outcomes of the 'Record War': History of the Record Industry, 1930-1955," advisor: Michael M. Sokal

2016 Hongii Yu Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics

"Dynamics of Atomtronic Battery"

Advisors: Burt Tilley, Alex Zozulya

2014 Ross Charles Lagoy National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Biomedical Engineering at WPI

2003 Jonathan Bayreuther, Joel Lofgren, Smriti Shrestha President's IQP Awards First Place Undergraduate

"Building a Cyclist's Comfort Guide"

Advisor: Holly Ault

2017 Marcel Gietzmann-Sanders Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences

Outstanding Major Qualifying Project

2020 Adam Collins, William Kopellas, David Simpson Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Architectural Engineering

Analyzing the Built Environment and Human Behavior through the Creation of an Immersive Space

2016 Michael DeFrancesco, Sinead Flanagan, Olivia Gibbs, Emily Schneider Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Perish to Profit: Processing Ripe Tomatoes to Generate an Income Stream for the Paraguayan Food Bank

1995 Jennifer G. Stander Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2008 Daniel Capozzo, Robert Groezinger, Keet-Fung (Frankie) Ng, Marisa Siegel Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Manufacturing Engineering

"Generation Y, Baby Boomers and Web Design: Usability Through Eye Tracking"

Advisor: Soussan Djamasbi

2018 Katherine Pelissari Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2013 Nouran Abdelfattah Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2017 Avery Ingegneri, Hannah Mikkila, Stephanie Salerno, Markus Zimmerman Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners People’s Choice Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Screw Fossil Fuels

2000 Casey L. Richardson Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
2022 Brandon Persons Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2019 Aylin L. Padir Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2003 Adam S. Norige Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2013 Kristin E. Poti The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Honorable Mention The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2023 Tyler Guertin Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering
2017 Kaitlin Beach, Jack Blanchard, Michael Clark, Nicole Quintal, Connor Tower Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering

"Expandable Blades for Precision Veterinary Myringotomy."

Advisors: Kristen Billiar, Andrea Lam (Tufts), Christine Zewe (Tufts)

2022 Anna Catlett, Dominick Gravante, Casey Willis Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“Repurposing PLA into 3D Printing Filament”   

Advisor: John Sullivan

2022 Brock Jolicoeur Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics

“Development of a Microcollimator Array for Neutron Imaging”

Advisor: David Medich

2024 Matthew Resmini Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2006 Paul M. Ingemi Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2011 Christopher Kevorkian Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2009 Michael L. Diamant Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
1997 Janet L. Brennan Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"A Consideration of Consciousness Explained," advisor: Roger S. Gottlieb

2016 Edward Dring, Victoria Johnson, Jacob Maalouf President's IQP Awards First Runner Up Undergraduate

"Improving Healthcare Coordination in the Mandi District"

ITT Mandi Students: Gopal Aggarwal, Naman Gupta

Advisors: Drs. S. McCauley, Ingrid Shockey, Varun Dutt & R. Padmanabhan

2010 Lynn Anne Worobey National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Winner National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Biomedical Engineering at University of Pittsburgh

2004 Adam Bryant, Andrew Campbell and Patrick Salmon President's IQP Awards Second Place Undergraduate

"Development of Communal Washing Facilities for the Northwest Settlements of Windhoek, Namibia"

Advisors: Art Gerstenfeld and Susan-Gerstenfeld

2020 Rosa R. Reynoso, Van W. Harting, Isabel M. Azevedo, Madison E. Cunniff, Rediet Merra Tegegne Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering, Social Science & Policy Studies

Co-Designing for Gold Mining Safety

2020 Mikel Matticoli, Lucas Varella President's IQP Awards Finalist Undergraduate

Jazz History Database Global Contributor Project

WPI Advisors: Keith Zizza

2014 Katelyn Cabral Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2007 Andrew Port, Jeremy Ristau Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences

"One—Dimensional Viscoelastic Cell Motility Model"

Advisor: Roger Lui

2021 Anyely Felix Nova Crimson and Gray Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
1997 Konstantin Grebelsky Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
2017 Victoria Loehle Salisbury Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2021 Rebecca C. Debski Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering
2018 Victoria Loehle Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Outstanding Major Qualifying Project

2001 Eric Tapley Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Integrative & Global Studies
2004 Laura A. Matejik Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2022 Clara Dublin Advisor: John Galante Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"From Entrance to Evacuation: The Development and Destruction of Japanese Immigrants’ Community Network in Seattle"

2023 Ashton Lyon Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2019 Nathaniel Mione and Bryannah Voydatch Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics

"Constructing Two Dimensional Theories of Gravity for Schwrzchild, Reissner-Nordstrom and Non-Extremal Kerr Black Holes."

Advisor: P.K. Aravind