A Youth Mental Health Crisis
President Laurie Leshin convened the Mental Health & Well-Being Task Force in September to advance WPI’s goal of creating a campus centered on mental health and well-being.
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Summer Lab Program Aims to Improve K-12 STEM Education
WPI will launch a summer program in 2022 with the goal of improving high school science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in high need Worcester-area schools.
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An Easier Way to Produce Clean Hydrogen
Yu Zhong has been awarded a U.S. Department of Energy grant to lead a $1.2 million project to design better-performing materials for devices that split water molecules to produce clean hydrogen fuel.
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$500 Million Fundraising Campaign Launches Publicly
WPI launched Beyond These Towers, the largest fundraising campaign in its history—and the first to combine philanthropy and sponsored research—at a global virtual event in October.
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Wildfires and Microgravity
For a better understanding of how fire behaves on Earth, WPI researcher James Urban is looking, oddly enough, to outer space.
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Student Group Encourages Women to Consider Cybersecurity
Students at WPI created a chapter of Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS), a national organization with a goal of encouraging girls and women to enter the computer science fields.
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