WPI’s 144th Commencement ceremony was held May 12 on the campus Quadrangle, where 1,077 degrees were conferred. In total, 718 Bachelor’s degrees, 340 Master’s degrees and 19 PhDs were awarded. Several thousand attendees were on hand to hear the inspirational messages delivered by keynote speaker Roger W. Ferguson Jr., president and CEO of TIAA-CREF, and [...]
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WPI to Host Meeting of the Northeast Section of the American Society of Plant Biologists
May 02, 2012
The meeting begins the afternoon of May 4 with a symposium titled, “Plastid Participation in Plant Development and Perception.”
Biomedical Research at Gateway Park Will Lead to New Therapies
May 01, 2012
The new microthread extrusion system is in the final stages of testing and validation, and will soon be manufacturing thousands of hair-like biopolymer threads a day at WPI’s Life Sciences and Bioengineering Center at Gateway Park.
Singapore Looks to WPI Learning Model
April 27, 2012
“Students are not just learning the theory and then doing some projects to show they have learned those concepts. They try and solve real-life problems to learn concepts.” – Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam, speaking about his visit to WPI.
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Senior Swimming and Diving Team Members Top Off New Pool
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Neil Heffernan Writes Boston Herald Column on ASSISTments
May 14, 2012
ASSISTments is a web service hosted at WPI that allows teachers to assign nightly homework or daily class work. Students get instant feedback while teachers get live reports that indicate how well students are learning.
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Camp Reach Helps Girl Scouts Celebrate 100-Year Anniversary
May 08, 2012
More than 300 junior Scouts visited the WPI tables, where the girls were challenged to apply principles of buoyancy to build and test a watercraft that would float while holding the weight of 25 pennies.
Students
ROTC Cadets Commissioned as Military Officers
May 12, 2012
Prior to swearing the cadets to their oath of office, commissioning officer Maj. Gen. Timothy P. McHale told the 19 men and three women that they would be called upon in their military service to make important, even life-and-death decisions that would affect the soldiers, sailors and airmen under their command.
Workplace
Casual Dress Friday, Summer Hours Begin Next Week
May 10, 2012
WPI Casual Dress Fridays allows employees to dress comfortably on Fridays during the summer while continuing to uphold good taste and professionalism.
Athletics
Swim Team Members “Top Off” New Pool with Water from Alumni Pool
April 19, 2012
The 11 seniors on the Swimming and Diving team transferred containers of water from the existing pool in Alumni Gym, and emptied them in the pool in the new Sports and Recreation Center, which will be available for competition in the next academic year.
D-Term Sujiken
Computer Science associate professor George Heineman creates a special Sujiken puzzle for Connection every term. See if you can solve the D-term version here.
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