Faculty
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 who 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.
- 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).
- Jonathan Barnett, professor in Fire Protection Engineering, was selected by the American Society of Civil Engineers and FEMA to investigate the collapse of the World Trade Center after the attacks of September 11, 2001. He has been interviewed in documentaries on BBC, Nova and The Learning Channel about the collapse of the towers.
- Brian Moriarty, professor of Interactive Media and Game Development.
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—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There is an inner world; and a spiritual faculty of discerning it with absolute clearness, nay, with the most minute and brilliant distinctness. But it is part of our earthly lot that it is the outer world, in which we are encased, which is the lever that brings that spiritual faculty into play.”
—E.T.A.W. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Wilhelm)