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Academic Highlights FY2005-06

Academic Highlights FY2005-06. Dr. Carol Simpson Provost and Senior Vice President. Recognition for WPI. Ranked No. 64 among all national, doctoral universities by U.S. News & World Report Among the top 50 science colleges in the nation in percentage of under-

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Academic Highlights FY2005-06

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  1. Academic Highlights FY2005-06 Dr. Carol SimpsonProvost and Senior Vice President

  2. Recognition for WPI • Ranked No. 64 among all national, doctoral universities by U.S. News & World Report • Among the top 50 science colleges in the nation in percentage of under- graduates who receive doctorates • Ranked among top 282 business Schools in the U.S. by Princeton Review • WPI’s MBA ranked #8 by Princeton Review for “Best Career Prospects for Women”

  3. Record Extramural Support for Academic from Sponsored Programs in FY06 $ Value of Awards Received eclipses WPI's previous record of $13.6M, set in FY2004 Office of Research Administration (ORA) – Includes Federal agencies, industry contracts, some foundations.

  4. Some Notable Faculty Achievements in 2005/06 Major external funding awards to: (ECE+BME faculty group) CUTH Bill Michalson Yitzhak Mendelson Peder Pedersen Grant McGimpsey • Diran Apelian (ME) Metals Processing Institute Ryszard (Rich) Pryputniewicz (ME) Modeling of Dynamic Systems Dalin Tang (Math Sciences) Arterial plaque modeling

  5. Al Hoffman (ME) Kalenian Award for Powered-Arm Orthosis Major funding awards also to: John Orr and Jim Duckworth (ECE) Precision Indoor/Outdoor Personnel Location Project Tanja Dominko, Ray Page (BBT) Cell de-differentiation in vitro

  6. Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations (CFR) – Includes Foundation grants and corporate support for education and research.

  7. 10 new faculty hired for Fall ‘06 Biology and Biotechnology Biomedical Engineering Electrical Engineering Fire Protection Engineering Humanities and Arts Management Mathematics Mechanical Engineering WPI has two new Deans: John Orr, Dean of Undergraduate Studies Richard Vaz, Dean of Interdisciplinary and Global Studies Division

  8. Increase in Ratio of PhD Degrees Awarded 267 30 Fall 2006 Graduate Enrollment 1029 students Females (24%) International (23%) Underrepresented minorities (8%) 10/02

  9. NSF CAREER Awards - last 3 years • Donald Brown“Cooperative Communication Systems: Resource Allocation, Self-Organization, and Synchronization,” 2005 • Neil Heffernan“Learning about Learning,” 2005 • Jennifer Wilcox“On the Prevention of Selenium & Arsenic Release into the Atmosphere,” 2005 • Terri Anne Camesano“Molecular-Scale Interactions Between Microbes and Surfaces in the Environment,” 2003 19 CAREER awards to WPI! Goldwater Scholar-Sanjayan "Sunny" Manivannan ‘07, ME & Math 8 Goldwater Scholars since 2002!

  10. Other Significant Recent Faculty Honors: Diran ApelianTMS Fellow (2006); 2006 Bruce Chalmers Award (TMS); J. Herbert Hollomon Award, Acta Materialia Steven C. BullockNEH Research Fellowship Constance A. Clark NEH Research Fellowship Paul Davis2006-07 Jefferson Science Fellowship, U.S. State Department “David A. Lucht Lamp of Knowledge Award” createdby SFPE for “significant contributions to the advancement of higher education” Makhlouf Makhlouf 2006 Hall-Heroult Scientific Merit Award, American Foundry Society H.J. Manzari 2006 Faculty Fulbright Scholar

  11. Other Significant Faculty Honors … WPI’s Department of Mathematics 2006 SPAIG award - ASA Roberto Pietroforte - Rank of Cavaliere Ufficiale, Order of Merit, Italy Richard D. Sisson, Jr. - Virginia Tech Acad. Engineering Excellence Michael M. Sokal - 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award - APA/SHP Gretar Tryggvason - 2005 Computational Mechanics Award, JSME Bogdan Vernescu - Member of Honor, Romanian Acad. Inst. Mathematics Jennifer Wilcox - 2006 New Face in Engineering (USA Today)

  12. WPI FACULTY IN THE NEWS Yi- (Ed) Hua Ma(ChE Center for Inorganic Membrane Studies) Hydrogen Separation Terri Camesano (ChE) Bacterial Adhesion Frederick Bianchi (HUA) WPI’s 2006 University Lecturer “The Virtual Orchestra: In Search of Human Bandwidth” *November 2, ‘06 Alden Hall Jonathan Barnett (FPE) Featured in NOVA special: “Building on Ground Zero”

  13. Faculty Best Paper Awards - last 2 years Diran Apelian (ME),2005AFS/NADCA Congress Kristen L. Billiar (BE), 2006 NE ASEEC Mark Claypool (CS), 2006 ACM/SPIE; 2005 ACM Erwin Danneels (MG), 2005 Thomas P. Husted Award - J. PIM Michael B. Elmes (MG), 2005 AMM John Sanbonmatsu (HUA), 2005 Jacobsen Award - ISUDC Erdem Ural (ChE),2006William H. Doyle Award - AIChE

  14. Recent Books Publishedby WPI Faculty: Joel J. Brattin(HUA) “The Writings of Thomas Carlyle” Charlotte and Norman Strouse Edn. Mark Claypool(CS) “Networking and Online Games: Understanding and Engineering Multiplayer Internet games” Arthur Gerstenfeld(MGT) andRaphael J. Njoroge(HUA) “Africa in the Next Decade” Roger S. Gottlieb(HUA) “The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology”; “A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism and Our Planet’s Future” Kaveh Pahlavan ( ECE) “Wireless Information Networks” Wesley Mott (HUA) “Bonds of Affection: Thoreau on Dogs and Cats”

  15. New Programs New Academic Initiatives Bachelor of Arts degree in Liberal Arts & Engineering Environmental Engineering(subject to Board of Trustees approval) Proposal for Interdisciplinary Robotics Engineering Program and concentrations Proposal for Interdisciplinary Bioinformatics Program Revitalizing the First Year Experience Emphasis on ‘Writing Across the Curriculum’ Revising the Humanities ‘Sufficiency’ WPI / U. Mass. Amherst: Mass. Internet2 K-20 Initiative for high-speed access to the Abilene network

  16. Freshmen chemistry laboratories renovated into modern, fully equipped facilities With funding support from: The George F. and Sybil H. Fuller Foundation; The Pfizer Foundation; WPI Trustee John LaMattina Through the generosity of James L. Bartlett Jr. ‘39, D.Eng. (Hon.) ‘98 and his wife, Shirley Bartlett Center admissions & financial aid building Completed Major Construction Projects Opened March 2006: Lufkin MEMSFabrication Facility for Nanotechnology Manufacturing Research

  17. WPI’s new Little Theatre opened November 2005 Four new plays by WPI graduates competed in the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival in New York in past 3 years:“Dreams Abridged”, “Passing”, and “Public Policy”by Catherine Darensbourg ’02“Treasures” by Sarah Pavis '06 and Dan Gilbreath '06 With funding support from: The George I. Alden Trust

  18. Life Sciences Research Building at Gateway Park Winner of the EBC 2006 James D.P. Farrell Brownfields Project of the Year Award In Recognition of the Remediation and Redevelopment of the Gateway Park in Worcester Research faculty from: Biology & Biotechnology Bio-Engineering Institute (BEI) Biomedical Engineering Chemistry & Biochemistry and Chemical Engineering

  19. Priorities for the Next 5 Years • Increase externally sponsored research • Enhance WPI’s academic reputation • Admissions/recruiting - Undergraduate and Graduate • Improve diversity of student population and faculty • New Sports and Recreation Facility (with parking!) • Renovations to Goddard Hall and Salisbury Hall • Additional on-campus housing for undergraduate students and nearby graduate student housing

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