News Releases

2002-2003

WPI Professor Wins NSF CAREER Award (July 14, 2003)
WPI to Present Graduate and IT Continuing Education Information Session (July 9, 2003)
WPI Summer Programs Nurture Young Minds (July 9, 2003)
WPI and FM Global to Increase Collaboration on Fire Research and Fire Protection Engineering Graduate Education (July 2, 2003)

WPI Mechanical Engineering Professor Hamid Johari Named Fellow of ASME International (June 27, 2003)
The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation Gives WPI $90,000 to support project based learning (June 24, 2003)
WPI Study Finds Most Federal Web Sites Are Not Fully Accessible to the Disabled (June 12, 2003)
Robotics Competition June 14 at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (June 11, 2003)
WPI Department Head Quinn Edits Two New Volumes in Definitive "Robert Graves Programme" (June 9, 2003)
WPI Students Create Online Game to Simulate Massachusetts State Budget Process (May 24, 2003)
Sigma Xi chooses three WPI graduate students for awards (May 19, 2003)
WPI Honors 2003 Graduates at Commencement (May 18, 2003)
WPI Names Head of Mathematical Sciences Department (May 14, 2003)
Artist and Poet Judith Ferrara to Exhibit at WPI's Gordon Library Gallery (May 13, 2003)
Massachusetts Teachers Selected for Technological Humanism Award (May 6, 2003)
Nationally Recognized Expert in Educational Outreach Tapped by Worcester Polytechnic Institute (May 5, 2003)
WPI Director Elected SNEAPPA President (May 2, 2003)

Ben Franklin is Favorite Technological Humanist of Massachusetts K-12 Students (April 28, 2003)
Bioengineering Institute Launched at WPI (April 24, 2003)
WPI Business Programs Earn International Accreditation (April 23, 2003)
WPI Names New Chairman of the University (April 16, 2003)
WPI Faculty Tapped for Honors in Teaching, Advising, Scholarship and Community Service (April 15, 2003)
Metals Processing Institute at WPI to Host Technical Innovations Program (April 14, 2003)
Five Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty Granted Tenure; Other Faculty Receive Promotions (April 11, 2003)
WPI to Present Graduate and IT Continuing Education Information Session (April 10, 2003)
Seven Massachusetts High School Teachers Named Finalists for WPI Technological Humanist Awards (April 10, 2003)
Students and Staff Are Chosen for Skull Honor at WPI (April 7, 2003)
Hamid Johari, WPI Mechanical Engineering Professor named Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (March 27, 2003)
WPI Students "Adopt" the Youth of a Worcester Neighborhood (March 26, 2003)
WPI Announces 2003 Commencement Speaker (March 26, 2003)
Youths and Adults Win at WPI Summer Sports Camps (March 25, 2003)
Powder Metallurgy Center at Worcester Polytechnic Institute to be Named in Honor of Morris Boorky (March 24, 2003)
WPI Names Director of Minority Affairs (March 19, 2003)
WPI Preparing Professionals in Management of Information Security (March 18, 2003)
WPI Offering Fuel Cell Fundamentals Course (March 14, 2003)
WPI Moves to 100% Electronically Submitted Theses and Dissertations (March 12, 2003)
WPI Director Wins CASE Award (March 11, 2003)
WPI's Bioengineering Institute Receives Army Grant for Telemedicine Research (March 10, 2003)
Two Worcester Polytechnic Institute Professors Awarded Fulbright Scholarships (February 28, 2003)
Student Steel Bridge Building Competition Regionals at WPI (February 18, 2003)
Worcester Polytechnic Institute Selected to Receive a Theodore Hesburgh Award for Global Perspective Program (February 17, 2003)
U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern, Sens. Edward M. Kennedy and John Kerry Announce $1 Million for Worcester Polytechnic Institute (February 14, 2003)
Get a Career Boost at WPI's Information Session (February 12, 2003)
Third annual "Introduce a Girl to Engineering" program at WPI (Feburary 6, 2003)
WPI Announces Changes to University's Leadership (January 30, 2003)
WPI and City of Worcester Roll Out Visioning Process (January 29, 2003)
WPI to Co-sponsor Talk by Former Russian Diplomat (January 23, 2003)
Yankee Editor At Large to Head WPI's Transformations Magazine (January 17, 2003)
Worcester Polytechnic Institute Student Nicholas Baker Awarded Marshall Scholarship (January 15, 2003)
WPI Bioengineering Chief Appointed to MFUA Board (January 10, 2003)
WPI Graduates 7 Students from Oracle Developer Certificate Program (January 10, 2003)
WPI Graduates 8 Students from Oracle DBA Certificate Program (January 10, 2003)
WPI Graduates 9 Students from Java Certificate Program (January 10, 2003)
WPI Graduates 17 Students from UNIX/C/C++ Certificate Program (January 10, 2003)
WPI Graduates 10 Students from Web Technologies Certificate Program (January 10, 2003)
Worcester Polytechnic Institute Students Offer Amateur Radio Class (December 19, 2002)
Worcester Polytechnic Institute Professor John Orr Named IEEE Fellow (December 18, 2002)
WPI is First University in World to Use Segway^TM Human Transporters (December 16, 2002)
WPI to Present Graduate and IT Continuing Education Information Session (December 15, 2002)
WPI Receives Its Largest Nanotechnology Grant (December 11, 2002)
WPI and Local Business Community Partner for Graduate Certificate Program in Manufacturing Systems Management (December 9, 2002)
WPI Community Celebrates Winter Carnival 2002 (December 2, 2002)
RJA Contributes to Jensen Endowment at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (December 1, 2002)
WPI Professor Elected ASM International Trustee (November 27, 2002)
Judith Miller Named Carnegie Foundation Professor of the Year (November 21, 2002)
"Manufacturing Our Future Summit 2002" Hosted by WPI (November 19, 2002)
RoboNautica II FIRST LEGO League Tournament Slated for December (November 15, 2002)
WPI Students Organize Environmental Awareness Week (November 12, 2002)
Venture Capitalist Alain Hanover to Address Management Students (November 8, 2002)
Technological Humanist Awards Program Recognizes Massachusetts Teachers (November 7, 2002)
Innovator of Human Powered Flight to Speak at WPI (November 6, 2002)
Information Security Graduate Certificate Program Launched by WPI (November 4, 2002)
Eighty-five High School Teams Compete at WPI Annual Math Meet (November 1, 2002)
Environmental Activist Julia Butterfly Hill to Speak at WPI (October 24, 2002)
WPI Professor Wins ASME International Award (October 23, 2002)
High School Students Gather at WPI to Learn about Engineering, Science and Technology (October 17, 2002)
"Mr. Charles Dickens" Reads from His Works at WPI (October 15, 2002)
WPI Names Patrick Quinn as Head of Humanities & Arts (October 10, 2002)
Biomembrane Pioneer Stephen Matson Joins WPI (October 7, 2002)
CEO Roundtable Launched by WPI Venture Forum (October 7, 2002)
WPI and NASA Let Students Take the Reins at Goddard Space Flight Center (October 2, 2002)
UMass Medical School and Worcester Polytechnic Institute Open the Center for Comparative Neuroimaging (September 25, 2002)
Frontiers in Education Conference Hosted by WPI (September 19, 2002)
WPI Student Honored as a Red Cross "Everyday Hero" (September 18, 2002)
Sustainable Development Topic at Half-Day Program (September 12, 2002)
David Stone to address WPI Venture Forum (September 10, 2002)
Three WPI Professors Win National Science Foundation CAREER Awards (September 10, 2002)
Fisler Leads National Workshop for Computer Science Teachers (September 9, 2002)
WPI Remembers and Reflects with Sept. 11 Memorials (September 3, 2002)