WPI provost will fill in for Leshin as interim president
Winston Soboyejo, provost of Worcester Polytechnic Institute
The Worcester Polytechnic Institute Board of Trustees has appointed Winston Oluwole “Wole” Soboyejo, the college’s provost and senior vice president, as interim president to serve while the college searches for its 17th president.
Soboyejo will begin his role when President Laurie Leshin departs in May, according to the college’s announcement on Friday. Leshin announced in late January she would leave WPI in May to become the director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Soboyejo has been at WPI since 2016 when he began as dean of the school of engineering. He was appointed interim provost in 2018, and became WPI’s permanent provost a year later.
In this role, he has played an instrumental role in launching The Global School, which provides global research and educational partnerships and opportunities. Soboyejo grew up in western Nigeria and has held faculty positions at The Ohio State University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Princeton University in New Jersey.
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