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
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 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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Renewable Energy in the Rockies
Brian Fennell, Kohmei Kadoya, John Matthews, Patrick Nieman, and Ron Pfisterer conducted a feasibility study of renewable energy at the Estes Park YMCA campus in Colorado.
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Validating 3D Food Printing for Customizable Nutrition
Leslie Mateo ’22 and Emily Toala ’22 advanced the materials science of 3D food printing and developed a three-layer, customizable, palatable nutritional bar.
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Reclaiming Hotel Laundry Wastewater
A team of MBA students won Best in Show for their capstone project, a business plan for technology that would recycle greywater from hotel laundry.
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