Nationally recognized University of Nebraska-Lincoln scholar and NSF division director to lead WPI’s largest school.

Veteran higher education attorney brings deep experience and trusted leadership to the university’s top legal role.

The Global School is founded on WPI’s half-century of leadership in global project-based learning. The Global School embodies WPI’s commitment to empower our faculty, students, communities, and ...

At the heart of the Interactive Media and Game Development (IMGD) program are its students—deeply talented, eager to learn, and passionate about all aspects of interactive media and games. You can see ...

Charles O. Thompson Scholar, named in honor of WPI’s first president, recognizes outstanding performance by first year students (first year admitted and transfer students). To be eligible for this ...

Welcome! The Office of the General Counsel (OGC) is the in-house legal office at WPI. The OGC is led by WPI’s Interim General Counsel, Matthew Thaler. As WPI’s chief legal officer, he oversees all of ...

A team of researchers that includes Worcester Polytechnic Institute Biology Professor Pamela Weathers has found that extracts from the leaves of the Artemisia annua plant, a medicinal herb also known ...

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) will lead a five-year study to determine whether artificial intelligence can help doctors steer people dealing with chronic pain away from potentially addictive ...

Could one of the fastest growing plants on earth offer a solution to some countries’ reliance on gasoline? A team of researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and around the globe has ...

In the beginning there was a fish, filled with Greek letters and symbolizing Jesus. When “Darwin-” and “Evolve-” fish parodies cropped up in the 1980s, they popularized the notion that religion and ...

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has been designated an R1 institution and joined the ranks of the nation’s top-tier research institutions in a new classification of American colleges and ...

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researchers led by Fatemeh Ganji have installed on campus a powerful microscope that is the first of its kind in New England and a critical piece of equipment in ...