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One of the largest entering faculty classes in WPI's history, they are the latest product of an unprecedented investment in talent that has brought 74 new tenure-track faculty members to campus over the past five years alone

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"These researchers, scholars, educators, and leader bring an exceptional scope of expertise and experience to our campus," said Eric W. Overstrm, provost and senior vice president. "With their prestigious research awards, impressive scholarly output, and diverse expertise, they will help WPI meet a burgeoning demand for its undergraduate and graduate programs in the arts and sciences, business, and engineering while they also expand our reputation for education and research that blends theory and practice to solve some of the worlds most pressing problems."

Dirk Albrecht, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, conducts research in biological microtechnology and bioMEMS, neural dynamics and behavior, and neuropeptide signaling, among other areas, work that has been has been funded a Career Award at the Scientific Interface from the Burroughs Welcome Foundation and that has been published in several journals, including Nature Methods. He will join WPI in January after completing a postdoctoral fellowship at The Rockefeller University. He holds BS degrees in bioengineering and biochemistry and cell biology and MS and PhD degrees in bioengineering from the University of California, San Diego.

Scott Barton, assistant professor of music in the Department of Humanities and Arts, is a composer, musician, producer, programmer, and instrument builder who conducts research in the broad areas of music technology and perception. His research interests include electroacoustic composition, music cognition/auditory perception, musical robotics, and artificial musical intelligence. He has a BA in music and a BA in philosophy from Colgate University, a Master of Music in Composition from the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music, and a PhD in composition and computer technologies from the University of Virginia.

Dmitry Berenson, assistant professor of computer science and robotics engineering, conducts research on robotic manipulation, motion planning, collaborative robotics. He joins WPI after serving as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of California at Berkeley. His research has been featured in National Geographic, Scientific American, and Fortune and has been covered by PBS and the BBC. He holds a BS in electrical and computer engineering from Cornell University and an MS and a PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University.

Maria Chierichetti, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, conducts research in response and model identification, structural vibrations, structural health monitoring, and innovative structural configurations for aerospace applications. While a graduate student, she received the Amelia Earhart Fellowship from Zonta International; the organization awards 35 fellowships annually to women around the world pursuing doctoral work in aerospace-related sciences and engineering. She earned a BS in aerospace engineering and an MS in aeronautical engineering at Politechnico di Milano in Italy, and an MS and a PhD in aerospace engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology.

Thomas Eisenbarth, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, joins WPI after spending two years as an assistant professor of mathematical sciences at Florida Atlantic University. He conducts research is in the area of IT security, with a focus on embedded systems security, physical attacks and counter measures, and applied cryptology. In 2011 he received a five-year CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation for a research project titled "Practical Leakage Resilience: Provable Side-Channel Resistance for Embedded Systems." He holds an MS and a PhD in electrical engineering from Ruhr University Bochum in Germany.

Patrick Flaherty, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, joins WPI after completing a postdoctoral fellowship in biochemistry at Stanford University. A researcher in bioinformatics, machine learning, and cancer genomics, he is currently engaged in work aimed at improving the diagnosis and treatment of human diseases by applying statistical machine learning methods to high-throughput genomics data.. He received a BS in electrical engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology and an MS and a PhD in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California at Berkeley.

Lifeng Lai, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, comes to WPI from the University of Arkansas, Little Rock, where he was an assistant professor of systems engineering. In 2011 he received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to support his research in the areas of wireless network security, information theory, and stochastic signal processing. His research has resulted in two best paper awards: at the IEEE Global Communications Conference in 2008 and at the IEEE International Conference on Communications in 2011. He earned a BE and an ME in information science and electrical engineering at Zhejiang University in China and a PhD in electrical and computer engineering at Ohio State University.

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New figures show the University of California San Diego successfully managed to reduce the number of undergraduates majoring in biology, a field that was so over-subscribed that many students struggled to get all of the classes they needed.

The campus says that 3,781 undergraduates were majoring in biology in October 2012, down from 5,294 in October 2008.

In 2009, Bio was declared a so-called impacted major, which means we can limit the number of Bio majors upon entry as freshman, as well as upon transfer from community colleges, said William McGinnis, interim dean of UCSDs Division of Biological Sciences. He said the campus also can limit the number that wish to switch to Bio from other majors after they arrive here declaring as undecided or as other majors.

We did it because we literally didnt have enough space to teach all the labs that we require of Bio majors. We anticipate the numbers of majors will go up in the next few years as we relax the impacted status, but that is assuming we get more lab space to train majors. And we also have plans to teach labs on weekends so that our undergrads can get all their labs and graduate in 4 years."

Biology is among the universitys most popular programs, partly because it can be a gateway to careers in medicine. The program also is attractive because of the reputation of graduate programs in the Division of Biological Sciences. Two years ago, US News and World Report said that UCSDs biosci program was the 15th best of its kind nationally.

The universitys bioengineering program also is highly-ranked, and had to be whittled in size in recent years because of runaway growth. The new enrollment census says the number of bioengineering majors fell from 851 in 2008 and 675 this year.

We had a pre-med major that just grew all out of proportion," said David Gough, a bioengineering professor. "That was eliminated. We would like to get the number down to 400. Our goal is to do a good job in teaching, not to just teach everyone who could make it through the door."

Over the same period, the number of physics majors fell from 509 to 211, and the number of chemistry majors went up, from 1,079 to 1,464. Psychology experienced a small increase, from 1,395 majors to 1,472, while Cognitive Science grew from 360 to 676.

UCSD had 22,676 undergraduates in Fall 2012, or 158 higher than four years ago.

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