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Preview students wearing caps and gowns standing at graduation ceremony on arena floor

WPI Class of 2025

WPI celebrated Commencement 2025 with ceremonies at the DCU Center, which included speeches by students, faculty, administrators, Michelle Gass ’90, president and chief executive officer of Levi Strauss & Co, who delivered the undergraduate Commencement address, and graduate ceremony speaker Noubar Afeyan—inventor, entrepreneur, and founder of Flagship Pioneering, and co-founder and chair of Moderna.

To help document the graduation of nearly 1,300 undergraduates and more than 900 master's and doctoral students, multiple news organizations covered the ceremonies or interviewed graduating students. 

Read the Worcester Telegram & Gazette's story on biomedical engineering student Fatimah Daffaie's journey to graduation.

Read Katie Couric's article on life lessons from commencement speakers, which included parts of Noubar Afeyan's address at the graduate ceremony.

Read Worcester Magazine's article on students who serve the community, which featured applied physics major Michael Nixdorf.

You can read ceremony coverage articles below:

Telegram.com

The Telegram & Gazette talked to John Goulet, teaching professor of Mathematical Sciences and Coordinator, Master of Mathematics for Educators Program, and Kristin Tichenor, senior vice president of Undergraduate Admissions, about WPI's reduction in its Mathematics for Educators degree program, which aims to reverse declining enrollment in the program.