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Robotics Teams Featuring Students, Alumni Sweep Top 3 Prizes in NASA Lunar Excavation Challenge

WORCESTER, Mass. – Paul Ventimiglia, an undergraduate robotics engineering major at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), led his team, Paul's Robotics, to a first-place, $500,000 victory at NASA's 2009 Regolith (moondust) Excavation Challenge. The competition was held Oct. 17-18, 2009, at the NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., and was part of NASA's Centennial Challenges, a program designed to inspire innovative solutions to technical challenges in the aerospace industry.
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WPI Students Place in Top Three of 38 Studios' Video Game Development Contest

WORCESTER, Mass. – Three first-year Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) students have won high recognition for their video game creation Super Munch 2 Turbo, which was entered earlier this year into the Massachusetts Game Challenge (MGC), sponsored by 38 Studios, the video game development company Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling founded in 2006. An awards ceremony was held on April 29 at the company's Maynard, Mass. headquarters.
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WPI to be Epicenter of Video Game Development for New England-Area Colleges

Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s (WPI) will be the epicenter of video game development as gaming students from colleges and universities all over New England will converge upon Worcester for the second annual three-day GameJam, sponsored by WPI’s Game Development Club. During GameJam, teams of aspiring video game developers will create video games over the course of 24 hours, in three days.
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WPI Places Two Student Teams in Top Three of 38 Studios’ International Video Game Development Contest

WORCESTER, Mass. – Out of dozens of entries from across the United States and Canada, five Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) students have won high recognition for their video game creations from the 2nd annual Massachusetts Game Challenge (MGC), sponsored by 38 Studios, the video game company founded and chaired by former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling. An awards ceremony was held April 29, 2009, at the company’s Maynard, Mass. headquarters.
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WPI IMGD Ranks 6th on Princeton Review’s List of Top 10 Game Design Programs

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is ranked No. 6 on a list of the 10 best places to study game design released today by The Princeton Review. In the survey, which will be published in the April 2011 issue of GamePro magazine, the WPI Interactive Media & Game Development (IMGD) major program, the first of its kind in the nation, was compared to undergraduate game design programs in the United States and Canada. WPI placed No. 7 on the list last year.
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A Historic Moment: WPI Tops Off Its Exceptional Sports and Recreation Center

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) President and CEO Dennis Berkey led members of the WPI community in celebrating a historic moment on campus on May 10, 2011, as ironworkers and planning team members raised the under-construction sports and recreation center’s final beam and topped off the steel frame of the 145,000-square-foot facility. When completed the building will be one of the finest higher education athletic facilities in the Northeast, one of the greenest sports centers in the nati
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WPI Tops Off Rec Center

Lorraine U. Martinelle/WPI Photo Credit Ironworkers raised the final beam today on the new Sports and Recreation Center being built at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The 154,000-square-foot building will provide fitness space, a four-court gym, a competition-length pool, squash and racquetball courts and an indoor jogging track. It will also have room for large events such as career fairs, and space dedicated to the college’s robotics program.
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Students Sing on Grammy-winning Album

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) student singers are featured on a CD that won a Grammy Award Sunday, Feb. 13. The WPI Festival Chorus, which also includes alumni and faculty, was invited last year by New Age musician Paul Winter to sing on a track of his latest album, "Miho: Journey to the Mountain." This CD, which features the WPI student singers listed below, won the Grammy for "Best New Age Album" at the 53rd Grammy Awards ceremony, broadcast on CBS.
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Student Robotics Installation on Display at the Boston Museum of Science

"Sticky Pixels," an interactive robotics-based installation created by four WPI juniors, is on display this week at the Boston Museum of Science. Part of the museum's National Robotics Week Celebration, the installation, which transforms sticky notes into music through robotic systems and user interaction, can be seen in the main area of the Cahners ComputerPlace. Designed by Christopher Earley, a Robotics Engineering major from Sugar Land, Texas, Dylan James, a double major in Interactive Medi
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Students' Research in Cape Town Garners Coveted President's IQP Award

A team of student researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) who designed and developed a communal water facility to help reduce the spread of waterborne diseases in a village outside of Cape Town, South Africa, recently won the WPI President's IQP Award for 2009. WPI seniors Marcella C. Granfone, Christopher R. Lizewski, and Daniel J. Olecki worked with the city of Cape Town Water and Sanitation Department from October to December 2008 to improve living conditions for people in Monwa ...
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'U.S. News & World Report' Lauds WPI Study Abroad and Senior Project Programs

U.S. News & World Report's 2010 "America’s Best Colleges" edition praised Worcester Polytechnic Institute's (WPI) revolutionary project-based curriculum and study abroad opportunities, calling them "outstanding examples of academic programs that are commonly linked to student success." In an article titled "Programs to Look For," WPI's senior-year Major Qualifying Project (MQP) program won recognition in the "Senior Capstone Project" category, as did WPI's Global Projects Program (GPP) in the "
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First-year Students Address Some of World's Greatest Problems

Students behind the winning projects of Worcester Polytechnic Institute's (WPI) "Great Problems Seminars" poster presentation competition targeted real global problems like Alzheimer's disease, high HIV/AIDS and malnutrition rates in Nigeria, water shortages in developing countries, and retrofitting old buildings for energy efficiency. They were among the more than 150 first-year students who participated in the seminars this past fall, researching projects that tackled some of the world’s most
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International Media Highlight Research in Tracing Origins of Native Venetians

Dozens of international media outlets – including La Repubblica, The Times of London, BBC, Al Jazeera; and Associated Press reports published in The Boston Globe, and others – have reported on a group of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) undergraduate students that is collecting DNA samples from Venetians to trace their genetic origins and subsequent expansion across the region. This team of students is based at WPI's Venice Project Center, which for the past two decades has focused ...
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WPI’s New ‘Green’ Residence Hall Named ‘Project of the Year’ by Construction Association’s N.E. Chapter

WORCESTER, Mass. – June 1, 2009 – Worcester Polytechnic Institute's (WPI) environmentally conscious residence hall, East Hall, has won the Construction Management Association of America (CMAA) New England Chapter's 2009 Project of the Year Award, winning in the "Building Construction Under $50 Million” category. A judging panel for the 15th annual awards found the East Hall project—which was designed by Boston-based architect CannonDesign and built by Gilbane Construction Co. ...
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Fraternity Wins Community Engagement Award for its Dedication to Worcester's Friendly House

WORCESTER, Mass.–Worcester Polytechnic Institute's (WPI) Pi Zeta chapter of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity received a Community Engagement Award April 6 at the Colleges of Worcester Consortium Inc.'s third annual "Celebration of Higher Education in Central Massachusetts" at Mechanics Hall. A Community Engagement Award is presented to individual and groups of students from Consortium-member institutions that provided within the past year exemplary service to their communities.
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