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List of Worcester Polytechnic Institute people

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Alumni

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Lesley Small and Jayne Rossetti in 2022, first women enrolled at WPI (class of 1972)
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Faculty

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WPI has employed several professors whose achievements have made them notable across the nation and the world.

  • In 1995, Biology professor David Adams was the first to create a mouse which suffered from Alzheimers.
  • Former history of science and technology professor Michael Sokal is currently serving as the president of the History of Science Society.
  • Kaveh Pahlavan, professor of electrical and computer engineering and director of the Center for Wireless Information Network Studies (CWINS) who, during the 1990s, helped develop the 802.11 wireless protocols.
  • Richard H. Gallagher, former professor of mechanical engineering and vice president of academic affairs, was one of the originators of the Finite Element Method.
  • Umberto Mosco, professor of mathematical sciences and eponym of Mosco convergence.
  • George Phillies, physics professor and 2008 Libertarian presidential candidate.
  • Current professor of practice, James Lyneis, serves as the president of the System Dynamics Society. He is the third WPI faculty member to serve in this post, the other two being Michael J. Radzicki (SDS President 2006), and Khalid Saeed (SDS President 1995).
  • Brian Moriarty, professor of interactive media and game development and former game developer for Infocom and LucasArts.
  • Frederick Bianchi, Director of Music Technology and co-inventor of the Virtual Orchestra.
  • Joseph Mancuso (class of 1963) went on to become WPI's youngest department chairman when he took over the WPI management program after earning an M.B.A. from Harvard. Mancuso went on to become a best-selling author in the business genre, and founded the CEO Clubs International, of which he is president and CEO.
  • Albert Sacco Jr. Astronaut, former professor of chemical engineering and department head. Served as payload specialist on the STS-73 mission in 1995.
  • Mimi Sheller, Dean of the Global School and theorist of mobilities.
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Presidents

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The following persons had served as the president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute since 1868:[12][13][14]

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Table notes:

  1. Died in office.

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