Improving Minimally Invasive Surgery Stock photo of a surgeon in scrubs in an operating room

Improving Minimally Invasive Surgery

Student team wins an award for developing a robotic surgical instrument prototype in Japan.

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Living With Fracking in Albania Albania

Living With Fracking in Albania

Students amplified the voices of Albanian women who paint a bleak picture of their quality of life in the oil-fracking region.

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Predicting NFL Player Performance Illustration of NFL player

Predicting NFL Player Performance

Students analyze whether data from a NFL scouting event can predict performance during real games.

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Uranium and The Navajo Nation Radiation Rocks

Uranium and The Navajo Nation

A study by Kylar Foley ’24, Summer Training in the Arts and Sciences Award recipient, looked at bioremediation techniques for uranium contamination in The Navajo Nation.

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‘Ropeless’ Lobster Traps Protect Right Whales Image of a right whale tail fin

‘Ropeless’ Lobster Traps Protect Right Whales

A student team developed the Lobster Resurfacing Oceanic Locator, or Lobster R.O.L., which keeps a buoy and coiled rope submerged with a trap until a designated time set by a user on a smartphone app.

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Transforming Trash into Treasure A pile of trash after students move out from residence halls.

Transforming Trash into Treasure

A proposal to recycle usable items discarded when students move out of their residence halls won first place and $1,500 in the 2022 WPI Sustainability Innovation Challenge.

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