Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Worcester Polytechnic Institute has named Bogdan Vernescu as the school's vice provost for research, putting him in charge of directing the school's research and controlling its intellectual property and innovation.

PATRICIA A. OSTROUT, senior vice president of retail banking at North Brookfield Savings Bank, was named volunteer...

Worcester Polytechnic Institute's President Laurie Leshin is strengthening the school's connection to the business and research community with a new position.

Two Worcester Polytechnic Institute faculty members were granted a patent for a technology they developed that converts human skin cells into generators of wound healing and tissue regeneration.

Here's the good news: By the year 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor predicts there will be...

At the end of its first year, National Grid's two-year smart meter pilot program in Worcester has exceeded its $46M budget by 21%, with an $830-million bill looming.

Many of the top 100 employers in Central Massachusetts are from the state's biotech industry.

In an effort to close the gender gap in computer science and technology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute partnered with Girls Who Code and created a $100,000 scholarship program.

A group of Worcester Polytechnic Institute graduates have launched a new business that brings gardening into the home and places it on the wall as living art.

BEN RIVEST is now director of business development at Sustainable Comfort, Inc. in Worcester. He was promoted...