The Summer Breeze Lunch Hour Concert Series features music and free ice cream each Wednesday from noon to 1 p.m.

The kids will engineer and program their own robots, and on the last day of the session will face-off in a friendly competition to exercise what was learned during the week.

In place of Morgan Hall, Dining Services will open the Goat’s Head Restaurant, the Library Café, and Higgins House for faculty and staff. These establishments will be available from July 9 through Aug. 9 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

More than two dozen faculty members and administrators from Southeast University in Nanjing, China are at WPI, gathering information about WPI’s teaching methods and processes so that they can integrate them back home.

Led by assistant professor Alex Wyglinski, who teaches in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department, the WPI contingent showed its spirit and personality amid intermittent rain. Joining Wyglinski were students from the class of ’14, including Elizabeth Dufresne, an aerospace engineering major; Paige Westlake, who is studying management engineering; Tracy Sinkewicz, a bio-biotech major, and Tanek Zhang, a graduate student in WPI’s ECE department.

The Fox 25 News team encourages Worcester residents, leaders and institutions to visit Elm Park and show their Worcester spirit on Friday morning. This is an ideal opportunity for the WPI community to appear at Elm Park to showcase school spirit, and you are encouraged to wear WPI shirts, hats and hold banners and be a part of the live newscast.

BIO 2012 attendees were introduced to the WPI Biomanufacturing Education and Training Center. Scheduled to open this fall, this corporate-scale facility for life sciences companies will offer hands-on and classroom training.

The new hall, the design of which celebrates the discoveries of British scientist Michael Faraday, will be WPI’s fourth LEED-certified building.

“To be in the new Sports and Recreation Center, surrounded by the best that a WPI education has to offer, made for an inspiring evening, and the feedback from our guests has been overwhelmingly positive. The success of such an event, in a building that is not quite complete, could not be achieved without many helping hands.” – excerpt from the letter by William McAvoy,Vice President, University Advancement.

The lawn behind the Campus Center served as a test range for students’ pressurized water fueled rockets, as WPI held the 5th Annual Goddard Cup competition on June 13. Seven teams from around Central Massachusetts competed under a rainy sky, with the team from Wachusett Regional High School scoring highest, with a near-direct hit of the target. [...]