President Leshin's Impact on WPI
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The following message was sent to the WPI community from Jack Mollen, Board Chair One of the most important responsibilities of the Board of Trustees is to ensure strong and consistent leadership, particularly through a period of transition. Today the Board unanimously elected Provost and Senior Vice President Winston Oluwole “Wole” Soboyejo to serve as interim WPI president
Worcester Polytechnic Institute President Laurie Leshin will leave her role at the college to become the director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, according to a Thursday announcement from Caltech.
Eight years ago this month, WPI announced the appointment of Laurie Leshin, an esteemed space scientist and academic leader, as WPI’s 16th President. We were thrilled to welcome her to our campus and our community. Today, we announce that President Leshin will be stepping down from WPI at the end of this academic year to serve as the Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory