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Honorary Degrees Will Be Awarded to Lander; Carol Tecla Christ, President of Smith College; and Robert Beckett ’57, Retired Chairman and CEO of Robec, Inc. WORCESTER, Mass. (PRWEB) April 24, 2013 Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) announced today that Eric Lander, PhD, a principal leader of the Human Genome Project and president and founding director of The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, will deliver the address at the university’s 145th commencement exercises on Saturday, May...

MedAptus' Patented Solution Eases the Complex Split-Billing Process for High Volume Hospital BOSTON, April 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- MedAptus® today announced that UMass Memorial Health Care is rolling-out the company's Technical Charge Capture (Tech) software. Tech, currently live in the departments of rheumatology and oncology at UMass Memorial Medical Center, helps to standardize the outpatient facility billing process by automating charge creation and operational...

Pittsburgh Steelers are the most cost-effective team, based on its draft picks since 2000; Robert Griffin III and Alfred Morris of Washington Redskins cited as best picks in ’12 draft. Worcester, MA (PRWEB) April 23, 2013 A new study by a student team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) shows that NFL teams typically get greater value from their second-round picks, contrary to the popular view that coveted first-round picks are the best. Craig Wills, the head of WPI’s Department...

Exhibit is Part of Month-Long Celebration of Haitian Resilience NEWTON, Mass., April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As Haitians continue to rebuild their lives and country, their resilience as a people and an art community is becoming more and more evident in Haitian art, according to Joseph Chery, a co-curator of "The Colors of Resilience," an exhibit of work from artists of Jacmel, Haiti and their American Haitian counterparts in New England. The exhibit, which is currently...

WPI’s entry is the only solar house to be built in the U.S. for this competition Worcester, MA (PRWEB) April 22, 2013 The Solatrium, Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s (WPI) entry in the Solar Decathlon China 2013 competition, was unveiled before an audience of more than 170, including city officials and area legislators, as well as representatives of several corporate sponsors. WPI is part of an international, multi-university team with members from Ghent University in Belgium and New...

Olin students recognized with scholarships from respected organizations Needham, Mass. (PRWEB) April 16, 2013 It’s that time of year when the recipients of prestigious scholarships and fellowships are announced, and once again the students and alumni of Olin College of Engineering are well represented among the lists of winners. Brendan T. Quinlivan, a junior and mechanical engineering major from Rutland, Mass., has been named a 2013 Goldwater Scholar. The Goldwater Scholarship Program...

POULTNEY, Vt., April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Green Mountain College continues to earn accolades as one of the greenest colleges in the country. GMC received a perfect "99" green rating in the 2013 edition of The Princeton Review's Guide to 322 Green Colleges released today. Created by The Princeton Review in partnership with the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), the Guide to 322 Green Colleges is a comprehensive guidebook profiling higher education institutions that...

With the upcoming retirement of Olin's founding dean of student life, Rae-Anne Butera is appointed. Needham, Mass. (PRWEB) April 15, 2013 Olin College of Engineering has named Rae-Anne Butera, associate dean of students and director of the First Year Experience at Smith College, as the new dean of student life. Butera will assume her role in July 2013, following the retirement of Rod Crafts, Olin’s founding dean of student life. “Rae-Anne was the top choice of the search...

60% of admitted students cited their campus visit as a significant factor that influenced their decision to apply and enroll at Wellesley College. For those that can't visit in person, the premiere liberal arts institution has reinvented the virtual college tour, giving prospectives a glimpse of what it's really like to go to Wellesley. Wellesley, MA (PRWEB) April 13, 2013 As high school seniors make their final college decisions, and many families tour campuses this week, one...

DURHAM, N.H., April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sustainability Institute at the University of New Hampshire can now work with high school teachers and community college faculty in the state and region to design sustainability curricula for their classrooms with a $50,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation. Participating schools include Farmington, Salem and Goffstown high schools; Manchester, Nashua, and Great Bay community colleges; and New Hampshire Technical Institute. The...