Buenos Aires Resident, Peng Kun Awarded Worcester Polytechnic Institute's Salisbury Prize for 2013

2013 May 24

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has announced that Peng Kun of Buenos Aires, Argentina, a senior, was awarded the university's Salisbury Prize for academic excellence in completing all requirements for the bachelor degree.

A total of 17 undergraduate students achieved the criteria required to receive this award which was instituted in 1871 by Stephen Salisbury, President of the Board of Trustees, to recognize "students who shall finish the prescribed course of this Institute with the greatest faithfulness and excellence."

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Founded in 1865 in Worcester, Mass., WPI is one of the nation's first engineering and technology universities. Its 14 academic departments offer more than 50 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science, engineering, technology, business, the social sciences, and the humanities and arts, leading to bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. WPI's talented faculty work with students on interdisciplinary research that seeks solutions to important and socially relevant problems in fields as diverse as the life sciences and bioengineering, energy, information security, materials processing, and robotics. Students also have the opportunity to make a difference to communities and organizations around the world through the university's innovative Global Perspective Program. There are more than 30 WPI project centers throughout North America and Central America, Africa, Australia, Asia, and Europe.