New Curriculum at WPI Empowers First-Year Students to Tackle 'Great Problems'
U.S. Newswire, August, 2007
To: SCIENCE EDITORS
Contact: Eileen Brangan Mell of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1-508-831-6785, ebmell@wpi.edu
WORCESTER, Mass., Aug. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has announced that Eric Hahn, a 1980 graduate of WPI and partner of the Inventures Group in Palo Alto, Calif., has given the university a $100,000 gift to help fund a new approach to WPI's first-year experience. Hahn's grant will begin the transformation of the first-year experience for students at WPI as it enables the university to offer the "Great Problems Seminars." These unique programs prepare WPI students by providing them with a global focus as they embark on their project-driven coursework.
The Great Problems Seminars will serve as an introduction...
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