Keeping students engaged and motivated throughout their college experience is fundamental to a WPI education. That engagement starts in the months leading up to your arrival on campus, to New Student ...

Andrew Sears, PhD, joined WPI as the university's Provost and Senior Vice President in August 2024. Andrew is a successful academic leader, administrator, and distinguished computer scientist who ...

Reducing human exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as “forever chemicals,” is a significant societal challenge. In the search for possible solutions, a group of ...

In a world that’s constantly evolving, it’s natural for education to evolve along with it. Project-based learning (PBL) is essential to fostering more skilled, empathetic, confident, experienced ...

Metabolic reprogramming is a hallmark of cancer that facilitates changes in many processes. Mutations in the Citric Acid Cycle enzyme fumarate hydratase lead to fumarate accumulation and cause ...

Attention High School Robotics Teams! WPI is Coming to Your Local Events! Are you passionate about robotics? Dreaming of turning your love for engineering, coding, and problem-solving into a future ...

Robotics Engineering Ph.D. Candidate, Shang Gao, Robotics Engineering undergraduate student, Haotian Liu, and Associate Professor Haichong (Kai) Zhang, faculty member in the Departments of Robotics ...

Inspired by origami, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) robotics engineering researchers are developing a lightweight, flexible robotic arm that will enable a wheelchair user to safely grasp, lift, ...

Joe Tranquillo will explore the role of stories in teaching, learning, and personal and professional growth in a series of workshops sponsored by the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN).

Register for one or multiple workshops here today! Keynote open to faculty, staff, students and community on February 25th at 3 pm in the Innovation Studio I&E Space. Presented by Joe Tranquillo, ...

In the book, Pandemic (Im)mobilities, leading social science and humanities contributors in the field of mobilities research address the multiple issues generated by the COVID-19 pandemic and its ...