University Lecture series with a talk from inventor, physicist, and entrepreneur Dean Kamen

WORCESTER, Mass., Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/

-- Worcester Polytechnic Institute (http://www.wpi.edu) is launching its new University Lecture series with a talk from inventor, physicist, and entrepreneur Dean Kamen. The annual University Lecture is designed to bring to WPI speakers of national and international importance to enhance scholarly and scientific learning and to stimulate intellectual exchange within the university and the Worcester community. The series is sponsored by WPI's Office of the President.

When: Thursday, November 3, 2005
5:00 p.m.

Where: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Alden Memorial Hall
100 Institute Road
Worcester, Mass.

Cost: FREE and open to the public

Who: Dean Kamen has dedicated his life to developing technologies
that help people lead better lives. As an inventor, he holds
more than 200 U.S. and foreign patents, many of them for
innovative medical devices that have expanded the frontiers
of health care worldwide. While still an undergraduate at
WPI, he invented the first wearable infusion pump. He
founded DEKA Research & Development Corporation to develop
internally generated inventions as well as to provide R&D for
major corporate clients.


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