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1999-2000

• WPI Workshop Aims to Solve Security Technology Problems (Aug. 17, 2000)
• Framingham Native is New MACC VISTA Community Service Coordinator at WPI (Aug. 10, 2000)
• WPI Camp REACH Girls Finish Local Projects (Aug. 8, 2000)
• Job Market Calls, WPI Answers with New Graduate Programs (Aug. 4, 2000)
• Camp REACH Girls Will Present Engineering Projects And Meet Former Astronaut Al Sacco Friday at WPI (Aug. 2, 2000)
  
  
• Computer Experts in Search of Security to Find Help at WPI Conference (July 31, 2000)
• Students Report on Culture and Earthquake Shock in Taiwan (July 28, 2000)
• WPI's Hermanson Elected ASME Fellow (July 20, 2000)
• Hughes Fellowship Awarded (July 17, 2000)
• Students Named WPI Merit Scholars for the 2000-01 Academic Year (July 14, 2000)
• Girls Reach for New Horizons at WPI Camp REACH (July 14, 2000)
• Students Take Part in Two-Week Test Flight for College Fledglings at WPI (July 5, 2000)
• WPI President Edward Alton Parrish Receives IEEE Award (July 13, 2000)
  
  
• WPI History Professor Will Teach in Japan as a Fulbright Scholar (June 30, 2000)
• WPI Professor Wins National Science Foundation CAREER Award (June 29, 2000)
• WPI Hosts International Artificial Intelligence in Design '00 (June 28, 2000)
• Professors Call on Silent Partner to Improve Classrooms (June 26, 2000)
• Author Sheila Tobias Talks about Teaching Science at WPI (June 23, 2000)
• Students at WPI Complete Research Project in London (June 22, 2000)
• WPI Puts Fun into High-School Math at Free Teachers' Workshop (June 21, 2000)
• Distinguished Instructors Named at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (June 20, 2000)
• Researcher Takes a Close Look at Potato Chips and Candy (June 16, 2000)
• Alumni Receive Awards at WPI's 2000 Reunion (June 12, 2000)
• Human Relationships with Machines Are Changing (June 9, 2000)
• WPI Contingent Advances at U.S. Rowing Olympic Trials (June 8, 2000)
• Students Volunteer as New Student Orientation Leaders for Fall 2000 at WPI (June 5, 2000)
• Students Take Part in WPI's Inaugural Projects in Silicon Valley (June 5, 2000)
• Two Workshops for Teachers Planned at Massachusetts Academy of Mathematics & Science in July (June 5, 2000)
• WPI Formula SAE Team Returns with Competition Honors (June 2, 2000)
  
  
• Students Earn 2000 Special Academic Award at WPI (May 26, 2000)
• 132nd WPI Commencement Keynoted by AT&T CEO, C. Michael Armstrong (May 24, 2000)
• Students Earn 2000 Provost's MQP Award at WPI (May 23, 2000)
• 60 Percent of WPI's Class of 2000 Traveled Off-Campus to Complete Degree (May 19, 2000)
• Silent World No Obstacle to WPI's Colleen O'Rourke (May 17, 2000)
• Whitmal Selected as Joseph Samuel Satin Distinguished Fellow at WPI (May 17, 2000)
• Students Win Top Awards in the Humanities and Arts at WPI (May 15, 2000)
• Fitzgerald Elected Fellow at Society of Fire Protection Engineers Convention (May 15, 2000)
• Karen M. McNamara Receives WPI's Moruzzi Young Faculty Award (May 15, 2000)
• Graduate Research Awards Announced at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (May 15, 2000)
• Brain Mapping Gets Research Boost at WPI (May 15, 2000)
• Trustees' Awards Honor the Best in Advising, Scholarship and Teaching at WPI (May 12, 2000)
• Worcester Resident Wins Teaching Assistant of the Year Award at WPI (May 12, 2000)
• A Voice of Reason on the Human Genome Project: A Conversation with Thomas Shannon, Professor of Social Ethics (May 11, 200)
• Annual Top Prizes Are Awarded to Outstanding WPI Students (May 10, 2000)
• Card Sharks Win Math Contest at WPI (May 5, 2000)
• WPI to Present Zero Defect Processing Symposium May 17 (May 5, 2000)
• New WPI Program Empowers Women (May 4, 2000)
• Students and Faculty Are Chosen for Skull Honor at WPI (May 3, 2000)
  
  
• Yakov Kronrod Wins WPI Olson Award (April 19, 2000)
• WPI Again Ranked Among Top in America's 100 Most Wired Colleges (April 18, 2000)
• 45 WPI Students Win Free Round-Trip Airfare to International Destinations (April 17, 2000)
• 10 Students and One Professor Elected to Greek Honor Society at WPI (April 10, 2000)
• 200 Student Projects, from Space Studies to Library Design, Will Be Presented April 20 at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (April 10, 2000)
• WPI Students Earn Outstanding Women's and Minority Awards (April 7, 2000)
• WPI's FIRST Robot Places Among Top at Hartford Regionals (April 4, 2000)
• WPI Venture Forum: Breakfast with Lieutenant Governor Jane Swift (April 3, 2000)
  
  
• Nikos A. Gatsonis Is Named Director of Aerospace Engineering at WPI (March 30, 2000)
• WPI Research Helps Choose Next Federal Encryption Standard (Mar. 29, 2000)
• Modern Technology Helps WPI Professors Teach Music History (Mar. 27, 2000)
• What Do Cooking and Card Tricks Have in Common? You Do the Math (Mar. 27, 2000)
• WPI Students Teeter toward Charitable Goal (Mar. 24, 2000)
• German Fulbright Scholar Works on U.S. Encryption Standard (Mar. 24, 2000)
• WPI Students Perform Community Service During Spring Break (Mar. 21, 2000)
• Telecommunications Leader Will Speak at WPI Commencement, May 20 (Mar. 20, 2000)
• WPI Students Built Habitat Houses during Spring Break (Mar. 17, 2000)
• WPI Venture Forum: Finding the Funds for Fledging Firms (Mar. 17, 2000)
• Scientists to Debate Discoveries and Forecast New Developments at WPI (Mar. 15, 2000)
• Christopher Brown Is Named New Director of WPI's Manufacturing Engineering Program (Mar. 14, 2000)
• Malaysian Fulbright Scholar Brings Family to Study in Worcester (Mar. 13, 2000)
• WPI's Student Alumni Society Garners Awards at District Conference (Mar. 13, 2000)
• WPI's Metal Processing Institute Receives $1 Million Gift (Mar. 6, 2000)
• Professor Janack of WPI's Humanities & Arts Wins Pembroke Fellowship to Brown University (Mar. 3, 2000)
• WPI Student Combines Interest, Skills and Academics to Build Exercise Machine (Mar. 3, 2000)
• WPI Seminar to Focus on Professional Property Management (Mar. 3, 2000)
• WPI's Alexander E. Emanuel Wins International Award (Mar. 2, 2000)
• WPI Announces New Promotion and Tenure for Faculty (Mar. 2, 2000)
• WPI Offers Workshops in Industry-University Collaboration, Distance Learning and Women in Engineering (Mar. 2, 2000)
  
  
• WPI Junior Wins Honors in National Essay Contest on Capital Punishment (Feb. 29, 2000)
• Girls in Science Day Takes Place at Massachusetts Academy on Friday, March 10 (Feb. 29, 2000)
• WPI Venture Forum: The Importance of Business Directors and Advisors (Feb. 29, 2000)
• 45th Worcester Regional Science & Engineering Fair at WPI, Friday, March 10 (Feb. 29, 2000)
• WPI's Hoop Dreams Aims to Make College a Reality for Local Youngsters (Feb. 25, 2000)
• WPI Professor is Co-Author of Book, The History of Science in America (Feb. 24, 2000)
• WPI Students Named to National Engineering Honor Society (Feb. 22, 2000)
• WPI's Lok C. Lew Yan Voon Receives National Science Foundation CAREER Award (Feb. 11, 2000)
• Mass. Student Entrepreneur Contest Looking for Applications (Feb. 8, 2000)
• WPI Students Look at Energy Use in Morocco (Feb. 7, 2000)
• WPI's Camp REACH Offers Scientific Fun With a Purpose for Massachusetts Girls (Feb. 3, 2000)
• Natalie A. Mello Named Director of Global Operations at WPI (Feb. 3, 2000)
  
  
• WPI Professor Pioneers Research in the Miniature World of Nanotechnology (Jan. 31, 2000)
• WPI E-Cards Send Humor, Nostalgia and Scenic Beauty via the Internet (Jan. 27, 2000)
• WPI Venture Forum: New Tech Companies Should Adopt "Guerrilla Marketing" (Jan. 27, 2000)
• WPI Professor Earns Research Innovation Award (Jan. 27, 2000)
• WPI Freshman with International Musical Renown to Perform Saturday, January 22 (Jan. 14, 2000)
• WPI to Deliver Online Info Tech Course (Jan. 11, 2000)
  
  
• President's IQP Winners Announced (Dec. 14, 1999)
• WPI's Center for Heat Treating Excellence Inaugurates Four New Projects (Dec. 14, 1999)
• Inc. Magazine Editor To Look Into Millennium's Crystal Ball at WPI (Dec. 13, 1999)
• WPI Professor to Receive ASM Young Teachers Award (Dec. 7, 1999)
• WOWI Program Offers Support to Women at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Dec. 3, 1999)
• E-Commerce Success: WPI December Venture Forum Explores Business Start-ups (Dec. 1, 1999)
  
  
• WPI Students Will Compete for Best Project Award December 8 (Nov. 29, 1999)
• Students Win Awards from Society of Manufacturing Engineers at WPI (Nov. 24, 1999)
• WPI's Tim Dresser Wins 4th Place in International Competition for Electronics Applications (Nov. 22, 1999)
• WPI's Kent P. Ljungquist is Chosen as Fletcher Professor (Nov. 22, 1999)
• WPI President Helps Inaugurate Scientific Talks with China (Nov. 12, 1999)
• WPI Takes Delivery of IBM Supercomputer (Nov. 10, 1999)
• Building the Team: Hiring and Compensating Employees (Nov. 8, 1999)
• WPI Devoted $5.8 Million to Summer Renovations (Nov. 3, 1999)
  
  
• WPI Breaks Ground On New Campus Center This Friday, Oct. 29 (Oct. 27, 1999)
• Monopoly Mogul from WPI Wins National Championship (Oct. 27, 1999)
• WPI's Hull Lecture Explores African American Discrimination in Japan (Oct. 18, 1999)
• WPI Senior Contributes to International Discussion on Gene Mapping (Oct. 15, 1999)
• Ham Radio: Alive and Kicking in the Computer Age (Oct. 12, 1999)
• Scott D. Ayers Receives Maatman Fellowship for Second Year (Oct. 8, 1999)
• Raymond R. Hagglund Selected for Morgan Distinguished Instructorship (Oct. 8, 1999)
• Robert L. Norton Is Honored with Searle Instructorship (Oct. 8, 1999)
• James C. Hermanson Honored with Alden Chair in Engineering at WPI (Oct. 8, 1999)
• WPI President to Speak at US-China Joint Policy Seminar in Beijing (Oct. 7, 1999)
• WPI Hosts Emmy and Academy Award Winner at Oct. 19 Venture Forum (Oct. 5, 1999)
  
  
• WPI Robot to Show Its Stuff in Boston and Worcester Oct. 1 & 4 (Sept. 30, 1999)
• WPI Skull Honor Society Recognizes Two Outstanding Students (Sept. 30, 1999)
• Worcester's Mass Academy Has Two New Teachers This Fall (Sept. 27, 1999)
• WPI Announces New Visiting Faculty (Sept. 24, 1999)
• Building Bridges: Donors and Scholarship Winners Feted at WPI Sept. 30 (Sept. 24, 1999)
• WPI Grad Wins 'Nobel Prize' of Applied Research (Sept. 21, 1999)
• New Faculty Lend Industry Expertise at WPI (Sept. 14, 1999)
• WPI Announces New Faculty Members (Sept. 14, 1999)
• WPI Again Ranked Among the Best (Sept. 14, 1999)
• WPI President Is Selected for International Appointment (Sept. 13, 1999)
• WPI Forges New Link in Metal Processing Research (Sept. 3, 1999)
  
  
• Local Girls Find Engineering Solutions at WPI's Camp REACH (August 31, 1999)
• Graduate Admissions Director Announced at WPI (August 27, 1999)
• Nation's Highways and Environment Will Benefit from $500,000 Grant to WPI (August 20, 1999)
• Members of Class of '03 Are Virtual Students in More Ways Than One at WPI (August 18, 1999)
• New Director Appointed at Massachusetts Academy of Mathematics and Science (August 17, 1999)
• The Latest in Computer Security Revealed at WPI International Workshop (August 13, 1999)
• WPI Professor Yi Hua Ma Is Named A Fellow Of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (August 11, 1999)