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Worcester Polytechnic Institute's Gompei's Goat Cheese Team Overcomes COVID-19 Challenges
Like many other organizations, Gompei's Goat Cheese (GGC) was forced to adjust their business practices in the face of COVID-19. The thriving goat cheese company, which began in 2013 as a Major Qualifying Project (MQP), historically maintained Worceste...
Apr 16, 2021, 10:11am EDT
Chair of the Senior Class Board Inspired by the Class of 2020
Watch Katherine Handy's message to her classmates. Katherine Handy '20, of Worcester, Mass., is the chair of WPI's Senior Class Board. A biomedical engineering major, Handy has been an active and essential part of WPI's student leadership and offere...
Jun 26, 2020, 10:54am EDT
Alumna Looks to a Future Where Converted Waste Can Power a College Campus
Caroline Murphy '20, of Ludlow, Mass., who has been working on green energy research since her sophomore year, showed that universities could one day drastically reduce fossil fuel consumption by turning food and green waste generated on campus into bi...
Jun 24, 2020, 10:35am EDT
Student Gave Back through Mentoring and Tutoring
Three years ago, when Katherine Gomes of New Bedford, Mass., was nearing the end of her freshman year and considering applying for a job as a tutor in the university's Academic Resources Center, she hesitated, thinking maybe she wasn't "brainy" enough ...
Jun 24, 2020, 10:26am EDT
Got Potholes? This Student Team Has a Solution
Three WPI students earned first place honors and a $10,000 prize recently in the Second Annual SICK Challenge. SICK Inc., named for the late Dr. Erwin Sick, was founded in 1946 in Germany and is one of the world's leading manufacturers of sensors, safe...
Jun 24, 2020, 10:01am EDT
Worcester Natives Take Pride in Their Hometown and WPI
David Howard was young-really young-when he made a big decision. "I knew I wanted to be an engineer, and I knew I wanted to go to WPI," Howard says. "Ever since elementary school, I wanted to go to WPI." Now Howard is a member of the Class of 202...
Jun 24, 2020, 9:49am EDT
Waleria Duarte '20 Earns Bachelor's and Master's in Four Years; Motto: Every Obstacle Is a Step to Success
When Waleria Duarte '20, of Doral, Fla. was 15 she and her family left Caracas, Venezuela-then ranked as the most violent city in the world-for a new life in Miami, Fla. Her personal motto: Every obstacle is a step to success. "This quote describes my ...
Jun 15, 2020, 11:16am EDT
Christopher Rene of North Scituate Awarded 2020 Kranich Prize
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has announced that Christopher Rene of North Scituate, R.I., a senior in the BS/MS program in mechanical engineering with a concentration in design, was awarded the university's 2020 Wilmer L. and Margaret M. Krani...
Jun 3, 2020, 1:18pm EDT
Mark Bray of Shrewsbury Awarded 2020 Two Towers Prize
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has announced that Mark Bray of Shrewsbury, Mass., a junior with a double major in professional writing and biomedical engineering, has been awarded the 2020 Two Towers Prize. The Two Towers Prize is awarded to ...
Jun 3, 2020, 1:13pm EDT
Pivoting the Lab
D-Term 2020 was supposed to look like past D-Terms in Destin Heilman's Experimental Biochemistry lab-students were going to learn how to isolate proteins in e.coli, and experience the flow and feel of a lab on campus. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit,...
May 20, 2020, 9:48am EDT