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2000-2001

Sixth-Grade Girls Engineer Community Service Projects in Camp REACH (July 31, 2001)
Public Input Sought on WPI Accreditation by New England Association of Schools and Colleges (July 30, 2001)
Summer Researchers Focus on Climbing Wheelchair, Clean Water, Vapor Emissions (July 19, 2001)
WPI Professor is Newest History of Science Society Vice President (July 19, 2001)
High School Students Explore Science, Math and Engineering in WPI Summer Programs (July 5, 2001)
Mass. Academy Hosts Summer Chemistry Workshop (June 25, 2001)
Designing Young Women Help Build Worcester Playground (June 15, 2001)
WPI Board of Trustees Honor Three Professors (June 18, 2001)
WPI Programs Inspire Underrepresented Future Engineers, Mathematicians, Scientists (June 15, 2001)
Robots From 30 High Schools Set to Do Battle on June 23 (June 4, 2001)
Ken Kaufman to Step Down as WPI's Head Men's Varsity Basketball Coach (May 22, 2001)
Professor Named Fellow of Society of Fire Protection Engineers (May 18, 2001)
Annual Top Prizes Are Awarded to Outstanding WPI Students (April 30, 2001)
WPI Student Named Goldwater Scholar (April 16, 2001)
Media Advisory: New Voices & Project Presentation Day (April 12, 2001)
Service Fraternity to Help Beautify the WPI Campus on April 19 (April 12, 2001)
Inventor Dean Kamen Receives WPI's Inaugural Presidential Medal for His 'Technological Humanism' (April 11, 2001)
WPI Announces Commencement Speaker, Honorees (April 9, 2001)
WPI/Mass Academy Entry Reaches Semifinals In National FIRST Competition in Florida (April 7, 2001)
WPI Professor Wins National Science Foundation CAREER Award to Explore Fundamental Physics Questions (April 6, 2001)
Seven Faculty Members Tenured, Nine Promoted at WPI (April 6, 2001)
Tatung, SRI, Global Crossing, GM, Avaya, Terra Lycos Leaders Convene on the Future of IT at Worcester Polytechnic Institute Barcelona Summit (April 4, 2001)
Teachers of Nation's Top Math, Science Students to Pool Ideas at WPI as Inventor Dean Kamen Receives First WPI Presidential Medal (March 22, 2001)
WPI Appoints Two New Trustees (March 23, 2001)
WPI Professor is Fulbright-Nokia Scholar (March 23, 2001)
WPI/Mass Academy Entry Wins FIRST Contest on Long Island (March 19, 2001)
Spring Promises to 'Regreen' Worcester with New Urban Forest (March 9, 2001)
Students Get 'HAPPI' With Hometown News at WPI (March 8, 2001)
WPI's New Campus Center Celebrates Grand Opening March 26-31 (March 2, 2001)
Inventor Dean Kamen Joins Teachers Across the Nation to Discuss Technology in the Classroom March 29-31 at WPI (March 1, 2001)
WPI Students To Sing Their Way Through Ireland in March (March 1, 2001)
Marketing and Innovation Targeted for Success at the March WPI Venture Forum Meeting (Feb. 28, 2001)
WPI's Chrysanthe Demetry Receives Young Teacher's Award from ASM International (Feb. 22, 2001)
Robot Unveiled at WPI's Mass Academy Friday, Feb. 16 (Feb. 13, 2001)
For Outstanding College Student Entrepreneurs, Cash Prizes and Awards Await (Feb. 9, 2001)
MEDIA ADVISORY: WPI's Service Fraternity Sponsors 'The Sleepout' Feb. 13 (Feb. 8, 2001)
WPI to Inaugurate Worcester Community Project Center (Feb. 6, 2001)
New Diversity and Women's Program to Reach Out to Girls and Minorities (Jan. 24, 2001)
WPI's February Venture Forum: Crossing the Pond To Turn Brains Into Bucks (Jan. 24, 2001)
Will an 'IQP' improve a student's IQ? No, but it will make the world a brighter place (Jan. 19, 2001)
Storyteller Talks of Love and Laughter Jan. 24 at WPI (Jan. 17, 2001)
East Meets West: Massachusetts-based WPI Dedicates Silicon Valley Project Center (Jan. 17, 2001)
'Funding Your Business' To Be Discussed at Jan. 16 WPI Venture Forum (Jan. 8, 2001)
WPI President Edward Alton Parrish Receives Two IEEE Honors (Dec. 15, 2000)
WPI Leadership To Light the Way for Nation's Colleges and Universities (Dec. 14, 2000
Ram-Mohan Elected to the Fellowship of the Optical Society of America (Dec. 14, 2000)
WPI Lecture Series 'Engineering The Future'Takes Place at Boston's Museum of Science Jan. 17, 24 and 31 (Dec. 14, 2000)
Aiming for the Stars: WPI Students Work on NASA Projects (Dec. 11, 2000)
Fish Farming Project Wins Top Honors at WPI (Dec. 8, 2000)
Mad Cows and Frankenfoods: WPI Speaker Looks at Social Issues in Science, Technology and Society Dec. 7 (Dec. 5, 2000)
WPI Students To Honor Worcester's Firefighters Sunday, Dec. 3 (Nov. 30, 2000)
Students Tackle International Problems - and Hope to Win Top Honors Dec. 6 (Nov. 28, 2000)
Come, They Told Me: Drummers Perform to Support Christmas (Nov. 22, 2000)
Financing Grad School: Your 'Ship' May Have Come In (Nov. 21, 2000)
Entrepreneurs Learn How to Network at WPI's December Venture Forum (Nov. 21, 2000)
WPI Advances to Second of Doctoral Universities Sending Students Abroad (Nov. 13, 2000)
WPI Announces Worcester Community Project Center for the Worcester Community (Nov. 9, 2000)
WPI to Present World Premier of Play, Nobody Knows You're a Dog (Nov. 7, 2000)
Privacy Issues on the Line: Have the Security Wars Been Won? (Nov. 2, 2000)
WPI Students Help with 13 Projects in Costa Rica (Oct. 31, 2000)
Eighty-three High School Teams Compete at WPI Annual Math Meet (Oct. 31, 2000)
Blind Pedestrians Find New Independence Thanks to Crosswalk Invention (Oct. 31, 2000)
James H. McLaughlin Is WPI's New Campus Center Director (Oct. 31, 2000)
Worcester Conference Calls for Fire Safety Reforms (Oct. 23, 2000)
Supercomputer Will Support Major Research at WPI (Oct. 17, 2000)
22 Colleges & Universities to Compete in Computer Programming Contest at WPI This Saturday (Oct. 18, 2000)
Rating a Web Site: WPI Professor Devises System to Judge Quality (Oct. 16, 2000)
Three Join WPI Admissions Department (Oct. 9, 2000)
WPI Oct. 17 Venture Forum To Look at Future Business Models (Oct. 9, 2000)
Is Fear of Frankenfood Holding Back Progress for the World's Food Supply? (Oct. 6, 2000)
WPI Students Take Roles as Presidential Candidates in Mock Debate Oct. 12 (Oct. 6, 2000)
WPI To Offer Meningitis Clinic for Students (Sept. 22, 2000)
Four at Massachusetts Academy Announced as National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists (Sept. 22, 2000)
New Faculty Join Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Sept. 15, 2000)
The Man Who Loves Dickens – and Hendrix – Edits 135-Year-Old Novel (Sept. 15, 2000)
WPI's Massachusetts Academy of Mathematics and Science Announces Class of 2002 (Sept. 12, 2000)
Nuclear Debate Involves Emotional and Intellectual Issues, WPI Graduate Finds (Sept. 6, 2000)
WPI's Kelly Jaramillo Studies Fuel Cells in Summer Internship (Sept. 6, 2000)
Five New Teachers Join Massachusetts Academy at WPI (Sept. 5, 2000)
WPI Ranks Among the Top in U.S. News Rankings at 57th (Sept. 1, 2000)
Worcester's Best-Kept Secret: Engineering Help from WPI (Sept. 1, 2000)
The Secrets of Success: How to Become a Technological Entrepreneur (Aug. 31, 2000)
NEESCom and WPI Launch Central Massachusetts Internet2 Initiative (Aug. 30, 2000)
WPI Runners & Walkers Help United Ways of New Hampshire Raise $20,000 (Aug. 28, 2000)