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Worcester Polytechnic Institute Board of Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2003 [6] Worcester Polytechnic Institute Woman of Courage award by WPI's Women's Program in 2008 [ 1 ] Women of Consequence award from the Office of the City Manager's Commission on the Status of Women in Worcester in 2008 [ 1 ]
The Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is a private research university in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1865, WPI was one of the United States' first engineering and technology universities and now has 14 academic departments with over 50 bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. degree programs.
On November 7, 2022, it was announced that Wang would be the 17th president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute starting on April 3, 2023. [9] Wang was ceremonially inaugurated as president by the university on March 22, 2024. [10] She was ranked 44th on Fortune's list of Most Powerful Women in 2023. [11]
Mimi Sheller (born 1967) is Dean of The Global School at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, USA. [1] From 2009–2021 she was professor of sociology in the Department of Culture and Communication, and the founding Director of the New Mobilities Research and Policy Center at Drexel University in Philadelphia.
From 2018 to 2022, statewide overdose fatalities grew by 15.7%; Worcester exceeded that trend with an increase of 17.8% over the same time period, according to the city's Health Department.
Servatius is originally from Graz in Austria. [4] As a student at an all-girl gymnasium in Graz that specialized in language studies rather than mathematics, her interest in mathematics was sparked by her participation in a national mathematical olympiad, [2] and she went on to earn master's degrees in mathematics and physics at the University of Graz.
A youth health survey conducted in the spring of 2022 found that students are experiencing stress and anxiety 15% more than they were in 2019. A top issue among Worcester middle school students is ...
Located in Worcester, Massachusetts, in the United States, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI, informally: "Worcester PolyTech") was founded in 1865 as the Worcester County Free Institute of Industrial Science by John Boynton and Ichabod Washburn (and Stephen Salisbury II, Emory Washburn, George Frisbee Hoar, Phillip Moen, Seth Sweetser, David Whitcomb, and Charles O. Thompson).