Worcester Polytechnic Institute

College leaders in Central Massachusetts are grappling with an upturned admissions period and wondering what fall enrollment will look like if students decide they don’t want to travel far for school, or even whether a fall semester would be able to take place on campus anyway.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute employees have mobilized to help provide medical providers with emergency supplies amid the COVID-19 crisis, the school announced in a press release this week.

Worcester's Assumption College and Clark University are the latest colleges to delay classes or move them online...

UMass Medical School, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, College of the Holy Cross and Fitchburg State University have suspended in-person courses in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute is launching what it is calling The Global School to expand one of its main academic features: Projects students undertake overseas.

An industry-wide spike in the number of applications from high school students has complicated the fine-tuned formula for figuring out which students – and how many – will ultimately enroll.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute's new healthcare research facility, PracticePoint, offers a place for researchers to fail and start over when they need to, WPI President Laurie Leshin said Tuesday.

Central Massachusetts colleges and universities face a variety of pressures in the coming year, with shifting enrollment trends to new leadership to the need to impress incoming students.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute is adding a master's degree in neuroscience to prepare students in jobs such as neuroscience research, pharmaceuticals and teaching.

Two Worcester Polytechnic Institute researchers and a team they lead have discovered what the school says are serious security vulnerabilities in computer chips affecting laptop, desktop and other users around the world.