Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has been awarded $1 million over the next three years to study the fire hazards and risks associated with green building elements.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) will receive $2.1 million over the next two years to develop more effective and durable army vehicles and systems.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute is home to one of four facilities that will be part of a White House initiative focusing on revitalizing American manufacturing, the school announced.

Germany-based life sciences company Eppendorf has agreed to donate equipment to Worcester Polytechnic Institute's Biomanufacturing Education and Training Center (BETC).

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) on Wednesday announced a $2.5-million training grant for software and educational materials that will teach Massachusetts vocational students new skills in advanced high-tech machinery.

Two robotics engineering professors at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) are being awarded a combined $1.04 million over the next three years to study how robots can help out in manufacturing plants and in homes with elderly residents.

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Worcester Polytechnic Institute has tapped a geochemist and space scientist with both academic and governmental expertise as its next president.

Think of college students and food, and you might picture a case of ramen noodles or late-night pizza deliveries, not a restaurant featuring shrimp cocktails and veal marsala. But Cyrus Mizrahi, owner of Viva Bene Italian Ristorante on Commercial Street in Worcester said being located next door to the Worcester campus of MCPHS University (formerly called the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences) is great for the Italian restaurant.

North Central Massachusetts is an area that keeps its manufacturing past in full view. Many towns retain nicknames that bring to mind old, dirty factories turning out the kinds of things that are now mostly imported from China. For instance, Winchendon is “Toy Town,” Gardner “Chair City,” and Athol “Tool Town.”