Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2024 Ben Kresge. Advisor: John Sanbonmatsu Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science

Scholarship:  "Having it Both Ways:  Can I be a Moral Omnivore?"
2010 Linnea M. Palmer Paton Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
1996 Carlos A. Zapata Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
1998 Edward M. Gaboriault Jr. Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2001 Christopher Holt Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
2018 Kylie Dickinson, Donald Dione, Sarah St. Pierre, Tyler Weiss President's IQP Awards Winner Undergraduate

Reducing Flood Risk in Shkodra Through Community Engagement

Advisors: Leslie Dodson and Robert Hersh
2006 Laura E. Baldassari Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2018 Neel Dhanaraj Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

 “An Analysis of the Potential Endangerment of Immigrants Due to Merit-Based Immigration,”  advisor: Jennifer McWeeny

 
2008 Oana Luca Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2010 Danielle Volpe Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Environmental Engineering
2014 Jedediah Perron Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“Going Out With A Bang: The American Supersonic Transport and the Environmental Movement” Major: Aerospace Engineering. Advisor: Thomas Robertson
2020 Fang Han Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2007 Rebecca C. Baron Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

“A Change in Expectations: Staging of Dueling in Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet and Hamlet,” advisor Michelle Ephraim
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
2022 Maria Decelles Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2024 Skyler Kauffman Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
1994 Mark R. Fuzzetti Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
1998 Man Ching Cheung Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
1999 Pavel Murnikov Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
2012 Pan Liu Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences
2002 Evan Andrew Gilman Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2019 Nathaniel S. Dennler Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science
2007 Amanda N. McCullough Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2013 Damien Cabral Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"The Origins of Muslim Extremism" , advisor:  W.A. Bland Addison
2008 Tyler A. Chase Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences
2019 Behnam Partopour Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate

Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation
2002 Amanda A. Roberts Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Sequencing within the Short Story Collection: An Experiment in Design and Practice," advisor: John Trimbur
2022 Adrianna Staszewska Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science, Data Science
2017 Lubna Hassan Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering

Outstanding Major Qualifying Project
1995 Kevin M. Shea Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2016 Julien Ataya, Gregory Kashmanian, Jeremy Koen, Gavin Sabol, Joseph Yuen Great Problems Seminar (GPS) Poster Presentation Winners Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

Providing Potable Water to Peruvian Informal Settlements
2023 Catherine Reynolds Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
1997 Robert W. Shivitz Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
2000 Joseph D. Lussier Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
2001 Katherine C. Wheeler Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2003 Nathaniel C. Liefer Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2019 Samantha Randall Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
1988 Brett A. Pauer Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2011 Sarah Mattessich The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Winner The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2011 Melanie Donahue Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2010 Andrew Black The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Winner The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Undergraduate Chemical Engineering
2009 Alison J. LeFlore Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2021 Emilia Perez; Chase Gaudino; Lauren Kaija; Hannah Schulz; Trisha Worthington Sustainability Project Competition Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Office of Sustainability

Preparing for the Rise: A Study of Boston’s Sea Level & Designs for Coastal Resiliency
1996 Greg Amiro Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"The Rock n' Roll Renaissance," advisor: Douglas G. Weeks
2021 Sarah R. Huber Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2014 Giovanna Cutietta Olson Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2007 Lori A. Ferris Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2023 Anastasia Mina Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Professional Writing
1997 Nicholas G. Bulat Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2001 Frederick Tan Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology