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2004-2005
2004-2005
June
- WPI President Berkey Honored by University of Cincinnati (June 29, 2005)
- WPI, Sen. Kennedy, Rep. McGovern and City Officials Break Ground on Gateway Park Brownfield Redevelopment (June 27, 2005)
- WPI's Sigma XI Chapter Honors Outstanding Research (June 21, 2005)
- WPI Honors Outstanding Faculty and Staff (June 21, 2005)
- Gateway Park's First Building Set for Groundbreaking (June 20, 2005)
- WPI Telemedicine Research Team Completes National Tour (June 17, 2005)
- WPI Students Win $10,000 Prize in Business Plan Contest (June 15, 2005)
- WPI Hosting BattleCry Robotics Competition (June 3, 2005)
- WPI Announces Promotions and Tenure for Faculty (June 2, 2005)
May
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute Students Win First Annual Strage Innovation Awards (May 31, 2005)
- WPI Honors Graduates at 2005 Commencement (May 22, 2005)
- Dennis Berkey Inaugurated as Worcester Polytechnic Institute President (May 21, 2005)
- WPI Offering High School Teachers Engineering Curriculum Training Sessions (May 10, 2005)
- Dennis Berkey to Be Inaugurated; Senator Kennedy to Deliver Keynote Speech (May 2, 2005)
April
- Senators Kennedy, Kerry and Rep. McGovern Announce Nearly $200,000 for Worcester Polytechnic Institute (April 26, 2005)
- WPI and FM Global Collaboration Extended (April 22, 2005)
- WPI Honored by WEPAN with National Engineers Week "Girl Day" Award (April 20, 2005)
- Preventing Stale Ale - WPI Student Engineers Better Beer (April 19, 2005)
- WPI Fire Protection Engineering Program Becomes a Department (April 15, 2005)
- WPI Names Amy Dean Assistant Vice President for Communications (April 6, 2005)
- WPI Bioengineering Institute Appoints New Director (April 1, 2005)
March
- WPI Student Named 2005 Goldwater Scholar (March 29, 2005)
- State Finals of Destination ImagiNation at WPI (March 28, 2005)
- WPI Announces Inventor & Futurist Ray Kurzweil as 2005 Commencement Speaker (March 23, 2005)
- WPI Team Unveiling Remote-Controlled SUV in Drive for $2 Million Prize (March 18, 2005)
- WPI Basketball Team Shines On and Off the Court (March 17, 2005)
- Women's Industry Network Presents Author of "Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office" (March 11, 2005)
- One of Europe's Leading Mathematicians, Umberto Mosco, Joins WPI Faculty (March 8, 2005)
- City of Worcester Honors WPI Women of Consequence (March 2, 2005)
February
- WPI Faculty Member Elected President of System Dynamics Society (Febrary 28, 2005)
- WPI/Mass. Academy Team Launches Its Robot for 2005 FIRST Robotics Competition (February 16, 2005)
- WPI Unveils New Freshman Chemistry Curriculum and Labs (Febrary 9, 2005)
January
- First African-American Astronaut Guion Bluford to Speak at WPI (January 21, 2005)
- WPI Bioengineering Institute and MassMEDIC Offer Winter Session of Medical Device Management Certificate Program (January 20, 2005)
- WPI Alums and Students Develop Game Named a Finalist in The BIG C Independent Game Competition (January 18, 2005)
December
- WPI Student Project Helps Maine Town Recover from Flood (December 21, 2004)
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute Names Carol Simpson as Provost and Senior Vice President (December 20, 2004)
- WPI Signs Academic Agreement with Chinese University (December 16, 2004)
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute Hosts No Limits Challenge, FIRST LEGOAE League (FLL) Tournament (December 9, 2004)
- WPI Mechanical Engineering Professor Yiming Rong Named ASME Fellow (December 2, 2004)
November
- Interactive Media and Game Development Degree Program Launched by Worcester Polytechnic Institute (November 29, 2004)
- Eighty-Three High School Teams Compete at 17th Annual WPI Math Meet (November 22, 2004)
- WPI Emeritus Professor and Department Head Donald Zwiep Named Honorary Member of ASME (November 17, 2004)
- WPI Students Vie for Presidentis IQP Awards (November 9, 2004)
- Photographer Donna Hamil Talman Enlivens WPIis Gordon Library Gallery with Her "Signs of Life" Exhibition (November 5, 2004)
- WPI Masque to Perform "Death of a Salesman" (November 3, 2004)
- WPI Welcomes New Faculty and Staff (November 1, 2004)
October
- WPI Announces Promotions and Tenure for Faculty (October 30, 2004)
- WPI Appoints New Department Head for Biology and Biotechnology (October 29, 2004)
- Who Likes Electronic Voting Machines? Young Adults and Republicans Says a WPI Poll (October 28, 2004)
- As Election Day Approaches, WPI Poll Shows Americans Have Concerns About Electronic Voting Machines (October 21, 2004)
September
- Statewide Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Summit Hosted by WPI (September 30, 2004)
- Fact and Fiction in "The Da Vinci Code" to Be Uncovered by WPI Faculty (September 27, 2004)
- WPI Venture Forum Presents "Breakfast With" EMC Chairman Michael Ruettgers (September 24, 2004)
- WPI MBA Program Ranked #2 for "Greatest Opportunity for Women" by Princeton Review (September 23, 2004)
- Worcester Fire Fighter Memorial Design Competition Finalists on Display at WPI (September 20, 2004)
- WPI Bioengineering Institute Develops Program to Meet Medical Device Industryis Demand for Qualified Employees (September 17, 2004)
- WPI Names Janet Begin Richardson Vice President for Student Affairs (September 13, 2004)
August
- Cheetah Expert Laurie Marker Speaking at WPI About Education and Technology in Cheetah Conservation (August 26, 2004)
- WPI Names New Physics Department Head (August 17, 2004)
- WPI Professor Wins Fulbright Scholar Grant (August 16, 2004)
- Nypro Joins the WPI Bioengineering Institute (August 12, 2004)
- Association of American Colleges and Universities Appoints WPIis Richard Vaz Senior Science Fellow (August 4, 2004)
- WPI Center Director and Professor Diran Apelian Named Fellow of APMI International (August 3, 2004)
July
- WPI Biomedical Engineering Head Christopher Sotak Named Fellow of ISMRM (July 30, 2004)
- WPI Honors Outstanding Faculty and Staff (July 26, 2004)
- WPI Reaches to Future Students (July 24, 2004)
- WPI Launches Two New Graduate Management Programs (July 19, 2004)
- Nation's Only Summer Program for Undergraduate Applied Math Research at WPI Nets Nearly $300,000 from NSF (July 8, 2004)
