When nine high school students boarded a flight this month, their destination was far away, but had a familiar name: Worcester. The teens are on a robotics team from Worcester, South Africa, that came to WPI to compete in one of the largest robotics competitions the campus has ever hosted.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute has officially removed the name of the late Robert Foisie, an alumnus and the largest donor in its history who gave $63 million over his lifetime, from its formerly named Foisie Business School and Foisie Innovation Studio & Messenger Hall.