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Hammering Home the WPI Connection

The company remains family-owned — it is now in its fourth generation of leadership — and at the heart of its legacy is a deep and lasting connection to WPI. Francis W. Madigan III, a 1979 WPI civil ...
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WPI Researchers Send Experiment to Space Aboard Blue Origin Spacecraft

Heat-transfer technology from Jamal Yagoobi’s lab could effectively and non-mechanically cool electronics on spaceships and ...
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WPI Faculty Awarded $600,000 Carnegie Corporation Grant for “Mapping Global China”

WPI faculty members Jennifer Rudolph, historian of modern China and professor in humanities and arts, and Lane Harrison, data ...
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Project-Based Learning (PBL)

of academic institutions around the world served by the Center for Project-Based Learning have engaged with WPI multiple times (2024) ...
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Research News

The university's annual research magazine, WPI Research, last published in 2017. Since then, features on current research by WPI faculty members and students, major research awards, and faculty honors ...
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WPI and MCPHS Expand Longstanding Partnership with New Degree Pathways

The expanded partnership promotes collaborations of mutual interest and benefit and formalizes a series of articulated degree ...
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Early Research Finds Extracts from Sweet Wormwood Plant Can Inhibit the COVID-19 Virus

A team of researchers that includes Worcester Polytechnic Institute Biology Professor Pamela Weathers has found that extracts from the leaves of the Artemisia annua plant, a medicinal herb also known ...
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WPI Researcher Develops Self-Healing Concrete that Could Multiply Structures’ Lifespans, Slash Damaging CO2 Emissions

Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) are using an enzyme found in red blood cells to create self-healing concrete that is four times more durable than traditional concrete, extending ...
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Hendrix and Woodstock: 10 Little-Known Facts about the Performance That Defined the '60s

WPI Professor and Hendrix Scholar Joel Brattin Recalls What Made the 1969 Woodstock Appearance a Unique Moment in the Career of the Legendary Guitarist On Aug. 18, 1969, legendary guitarist Jimi ...
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Atwater Kent Laboratories

Built in 1907 and named for a radio pioneer and member of WPI’s class of 1900, Atwater Kent Laboratories was the first building in the country dedicated to education in electrical engineering. Seen ...
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute Researcher is Creating a Safer, More Accurate Way to Detect Prostate Cancer

A biomedical engineer at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is creating a new medical robot that uses minimally invasive technologies to safely and accurately detect and monitor prostate cancer, ...
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WPI Researchers to Develop Robotic Arm for Wheelchairs

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, ...