Lithium-ion Battery Upcycling Wins Better World Award Yan Wang in his lab

Lithium-ion Battery Upcycling Wins Better World Award

WPI’s commercialization of a lithium-ion battery upcycling process invented by researcher Yan Wang has been awarded the Better World Project Award from AUTM, the Association of University Technology Managers.

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WPI’s Strategic Plan: Year 1 Progress Report The fountain at Alumni Plaza

WPI’s Strategic Plan: Year 1 Progress Report

The university wrapped up its first year of implementation of Lead With Purpose: The Strategic Plan for WPI.

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How Cooking Oil Could Be Used to Paint Your House An illustration of a painter pouring oil into a paint roller pan

How Cooking Oil Could Be Used to Paint Your House

In Chemical Engineering Professor Mike Timko’s lab, things aren’t always what they seem.

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Part of the WPI Family Forever Graduates touch the Gompei statue as they pass by at Commencement

Part of the WPI Family Forever

President Laurie Leshin oversaw her final Commencement exercises on May 14, the first time graduates were able to gather as a whole class for in-person ceremonies since May 2019.

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The Guardians of Film Lens & Lights students work on the vintage film projectors

The Guardians of Film

Two fully functioning analog film projectors—one of only four sets still operating in the state—are lovingly maintained and run by members of the student group Lens and Lights.

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Letters: To and From the Editor Letters

Letters: To and From the Editor

Readers react to stories, and a photo, from recent WPI Journals.

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