Worcester Polytechnic Institute News

Students in Grades 6-8 are doing their best this week to let elected officials - and anybody else who is interested - know that space debris is becoming more common and worrisome.

NASA is hosting a competition for autonomous rovers, dubbed as the Sample Return Robot Challenge, at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts next month.

Norton High School seniors Elizabeth A. LaVerghetta and Kady Ferguson were chosen as the valedictorian and salutatorian respectively for the Class of 2012.

The following is a press release from the Stoughton High Music Department: On April 4, the Stoughton High School Jazz Choir and Jazz Combo performed at the 2012 Massachusetts Association for Jazz Education High School Combo Choir Festival held at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Frantiska Matteos of Fairhaven is among the 2,172 graduates of the University of Alaska Anchorage, Class of 2012.

The groundbreaking tests, set for May 23-25 at the University of California, San Diego, on the nation's largest outdoor shake table, are part of a multi-institution study aimed at learning how to keep high-value buildings operational following earthquakes Worcester, Mass.

Emergency medical workers tend to a man who burned his hands in the blaze. The bucket of ice was retrieved from the nearby Boynton Restaurant.

Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. , the industry leader in technology for small cell base stations, today announced that Preetinder S. Virk assumed the role of senior vice president and general manager, communications convergence processing , effective May 14, 2012.

Demetri Bovopoulos West High School, GPA 4.31, Scored 36 on ACT, AP Scholar with Distinction, National Merit Scholarship of $2,000 College: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, majoring in biomed engineering.

From left, Traci Blecher, Jen Pendergast, Erin Ducey, Jim Madigan, Tom Stanovcich, and Cornelius Madigan at scholarship presentation by Unibank and Wheelabrator on Friday morning.

My belief - shared by many education experts - is that the discussion is focusing on the wrong question.

The study, which is conducted annually by the National Association of College and University Business Officers , tracks the year over year performance of more than 800 public and private colleges nationwide.

Here are four unique ways to experience the power of the artist to stir an audience.

Guillermo Vincentelli, a senior in the Precision Machining and Automated Manufacturing program at Assabet Valley Regional Technical High School, was recently named the Outstanding Vocational Technical Student at the school, and was honored at a dinner at Mechanics Hall in Worcester.

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.