Provost and Senior Vice President Winston Oluwole “Wole” Soboyejo––a highly accomplished academic and administrative leader––assumed the role of interim WPI president in May 2022.
In November 2022, the university announced Grace Wang, PhD, a materials scientist and highly accomplished and collaborative leader in higher education, government, and industry, has been selected as the 17th president of WPI. Elected by the WPI Board of Trustees after an extensive national search, President-elect Wang will join the community on April 3, 2023.
Interim President Winston Oluwole “Wole” Soboyejo
Provost and Senior Vice President Winston Oluwole “Wole” Soboyejo was appointed interim president by the Board of Trustees in February 2022 and assumed the role on May 16, 2022. A highly accomplished academic and administrative leader, he first joined WPI in 2016 as the Bernard M. Gordon Dean of Engineering and was named provost and senior vice president in 2019.
Known for being a collaborator with great respect for the knowledge and experience of those around him, as provost Soboyejo leveraged his noteworthy record of building global research and educational partnerships to help launch The Global School at WPI. He also joined key stakeholders in facilitating interdisciplinary research teams that are driving new collaborations and innovations—and he worked closely with trustees, administration, and faculty to bring about new opportunities for teaching faculty including a tenure track.
Get to Know President-Elect Grace Wang
Learn more about WPI's 17th president Grace Wang, PhD, who will assume the the presidency on April 3, 2023.
Building Dedicated Communities
As Provost, Interim President Soboyejo was instrumental in uniting faculty, staff, and researchers to build dedicated communities in four interdisciplinary areas where the university has well-established strengths, recognizing the potential to make important impacts is multiplied when talents and passions are applied. By eliminating silos, these boundary-breaking communities are fostering interdisciplinary scholarship and research, providing opportunities for faculty members to work together in creative—and even unconventional—ways, and strengthening WPI’s ability to make lives better. Learn more about these four groups: Smart World, Materials Reimagined (MatR), BioPoint, and Global Initiatives.