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Students Present Global Projects Remotely; Goals, Impact Are Anything but Remote
Like countless WPI students before her, Deanna Kay '21, of Tyngsboro, Mass., stood in front of the sponsor of her Interactive Qualifying Project (IQP) and laid out the scope of her group's work aimed at helping raise awareness of the increase of pollen...
May 12, 2020, 2:00pm EDT
Unable to Travel, Moscow Project Center Team Partners with Russians to Study Spread of COVID-19
For seven weeks, junior Matthew Withington, of Plymouth, Massachusetts, and two teammates prepared for a trip to Moscow to help a charitable organization optimize its nursing home search engine. Then came COVID-19, the suspension of WPI-related trav...
May 8, 2020, 2:33pm EDT
Scholar Athlete Tyler Marsh Emerges as One of WPI's Best Wrestlers
When Tyler Marsh, of Upper Black Eddy, Pa., stepped onto the mat for his first WPI wrestling match as a freshman he knew almost nothing of the generations of Engineer grapplers who preceded him. But he went on to win both matches that day and matured i...
May 8, 2020, 2:07pm EDT
IQP Students Explore Sights, Smells, History, and Art of Romania Remotely
When the COVID-19 pandemic gained steam this spring, upending WPI's global travel, the project directors and advisors for the Bucharest, Romania Project Center went into action, reimagining a global, project-based learning experience by immersing stude...
Apr 24, 2020, 5:00pm EDT
When the Pandemic Upended Global Travel, IQP Students Canceled Trips and Pivoted to Remote Teamwork
April 17, 2020 Emilia Perez of Mays Landing, N. J., considers herself a positive person, but when the WPI junior learned in March that her long-anticipated spring trip to India for an Interactive Qualifying Project (IQP) had been cancelled along wit...
Apr 17, 2020, 10:38am EDT
Worcester Polytechnic Institute Students Bring Difficult Topics to the Open
In response to rising instances of hate across the globe, two students recently organized "Hate Has No Place Here." Ariel Goldner '19, of New York, N.Y. (mechanical engineering) and Maggie Kuck '19, of Danbury, Conn. (chemical engineering) say the dead...
Jan 15, 2019, 10:30am EST
Jericho Resident Julia Dunn among WPI Student Team to Gain Foothold with New Athletic Shoe Sole
A team of student engineers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has developed a working prototype of a new type of sports shoe sole designed to reduce the incidence of non-contact knee and ankle injuries in organized sports. The shoe is a response...
Oct 17, 2018, 4:58pm EDT
Arlington Resident Mary Kandaras among WPI Student Team to Gain Foothold with New Athletic Shoe Sole
A team of student engineers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has developed a working prototype of a new type of sports shoe sole designed to reduce the incidence of non-contact knee and ankle injuries in organized sports. The shoe is a response...
Oct 17, 2018, 3:23pm EDT
Orono Resident Nate DeSisto among WPI Student Team to Gain Foothold with New Athletic Shoe Sole
A team of student engineers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has developed a working prototype of a new type of sports shoe sole designed to reduce the incidence of non-contact knee and ankle injuries in organized sports. The shoe is a response...
Oct 17, 2018, 3:22pm EDT
Arlington Resident Colin McNamara among WPI Student Team to Gain Foothold with New Athletic Shoe Sole
A team of student engineers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has developed a working prototype of a new type of sports shoe sole designed to reduce the incidence of non-contact knee and ankle injuries in organized sports. The shoe is a response...
Oct 17, 2018, 3:20pm EDT