Award Recipients

Year Recipient Name Title Awarded by Type Department Details
2007 Kerri George (Biochemistry) Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry

"The Effects of Ajulemic Acid on Osteoclast Differentiation"

Advisor: Jill Rulfs

2007 Kristin Collette Student Employee of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Undergraduate Admissions
2007 Akanksha Sharma Two Towers Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2007 Katherine A. Kelly Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
2007 Colin J. DeGraf Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
2007 Gabriel Baldwin, Benjamin Childs, Carolyn Hunter, Victoria Urrea President's IQP Awards Third Place Undergraduate

Developing a Strategy to Improve Solar Home System Sustainability in Rural Thailand

2007 Todor Kiryazov, Gregory McHale, Daniel Mezynski, Phillip Sweeney Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science

"ComputerWorld Survey System"

Advisors: David Brown, Diane Strong

2007 Nate Piper Student Employee of the Year Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Undergraduate Admissions
2007 Charles A. Gammal III Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2007 Fernando M. Olloqui Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2007 Kathryn P. Carpenter Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
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

2007 Jeffrey Pelligrino, John Scimone, Kaushal Shrestha Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering

"AMISR RF Amplifier Test Station"

Advisor: John Orr

2007 Earnest S. Hayeck '47 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2007 Rebecca C. Baron Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

β€œA Change in Expectations: Staging of Dueling in Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet and Hamlet,” advisor Michelle Ephraim

2007 Artur A. Janc Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Computer Science, Electrical & Computer 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

2007 Brian Foley, Sean Hallinan, Hans Jensen Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering

"Nonβ€”Invasive Metal Detection"

Advisors: Stephen Bitar, Reinhold Ludwig, Sergey Makarov

2007 John A. McNeill Chair's Exemplary Faculty Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Electrical & Computer Engineering

Electrical & Computer Engineering John McNeill has received Chairman's Exemplary Faculty Prize

2007 Charles F. H. Crathern '52 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2007 Craig D. DiGiovanni Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

β€œThe Planning and Implementation of Denazification in Post War Germany,” advisor David Dollenmayer

2007 Lori A. Ferris Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Kranich Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry
2007 Saad Ahmad Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2007 Warren J Schudy National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Computer Science at Brown University

2007 Shannon E. O'Toole, Brandon R. Finzel, Justin Perron, Jacob E. Russell President's IQP Awards Second Place Undergraduate

"Noise Data Farming for the City of Boston"

Advisors: Chrysanthe Demetry & Kevin Clements

2007 Kevin Bobrowski, Christopher Korzeniowski, Francisco de Molina Cobo Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering

"Search and Rescue Robot"

Advisor: James Duckworth

2007 Aaron Sakulich Fulbright Scholars Fulbright Program Faculty Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering

Morocco

2007 Richard D. Sisson Chair's Exemplary Faculty Prize Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2007 George H. Long Jr. '57 Herbert F. Taylor Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to WPI WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2007 Lucas Samuel Lincoln Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

β€œAn Analysis of Pat Metheny as a Jazz Composer,” advisor Richard Falco

2007 Jill M. Goldstein Two Towers Prize Honorable Mention Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2007 Megan K. Murphy Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering
2007 Jason P. Frey, Ryan S. Kendrick, Jodi M. Lowell, John M. Rothermel President's IQP Awards First Place Undergraduate

"Energy Profiling for Off-Grid Energization Solutions in Namibia"

Advisors: Robert Krueger & Fred Looft

2007 John Bosch, Joseph Hsu, Erin Mazuera, Kelly Osberg Provost's MQP Awards Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering

"Demographic Preferences in Web Design: Usability Testing Through Eye Tracking"

Advisors: Soussan Djamasbi, Thomas Tullis

2006 Benjamin W. Dwyer Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Spirits of the Dead: a Musical Composition," advisor: Richard Falco

2006 Ravi Srinivasan National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Physics at Brown University

2006 Amanda J. Tarbet Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Multimodal Tensions in the Graphic Novel," advisor: Ruth Smith

2006 Sanjayan Manivannan Two Towers Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2006 Paul M. Ingemi Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Electrical & Computer Engineering
2006 Ann H. Bothmer Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Physics
2006 Warren J Schudy National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Artificial Intelligence at Brown University

2006 Jeanine Plummer Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering

Read the citation: 2006 Outstanding Teaching Award

2006 Carolann Koleci Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Academic Advising Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Physics

Read the citation: 2006 Academic Advising Award

2006 Diran Apelian Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Mechanical & Materials Engineering

Read the citation: 2006 Outstanding Research Award

2006 Eric G. Wilusz Class of 1879 Prize for Outstanding Projects in the Humanities Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate

"Competing Visions for Technical Education: the Founding of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Worcester Polytechnic Institute," advisor: David Spanagel

2006 Laura E. Baldassari Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Biology & Biotechnology
2006 Yuko Oku National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Undergraduate

For Biochemistry at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

2006 H. J. Manzari Romeo L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Humanities & Arts

Read the citation: 2006 Romeo Award

2006 Jonathan E. Gronlund Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2006 Laura M. Amodeo Salisbury Prize Winner Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Chemistry & Biochemistry, Humanities & Arts