Worcester Polytechnic Institute News

International Media Highlight WPI Research in Tracing Origins of Native Venetians

Nov 20 2009

The students' research complements other historically significant projects assigned to the WPI Venice Project Center over the past 20 years.

Frank Hoy Installed as WPI's First Paul R. Beswick Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Nov 20 2009

An internationally known authority on entrepreneurship, Hoy has held endowed chairs at two universities and published more than seven books and 130 articles and papers

Norman Sondak, WPI's First Computer Science Professor

Nov 19 2009

The first person to teach computer science at WPI, died in San Diego, Calif., on Nov. 5 at the age of 78.

WPI Historian Steven Bullock Featured in CNN Report on the Masons

Nov 13 2009

The story, broadcast in prime time, was part of a two-part series on secret societies. Bullock is an authority on the history of the Freemasons.

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