Summer 2022

New Executive PhD Program Launches Signage outside The Business School offices

New Executive PhD Program Launches

The Business School launched an executive PhD program specifically designed to give executives greater influence on the challenges and opportunities in their industries, combining their life experiences with rigorous academic research to effect change.

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Robots Provide Helping Hands to Nurses Illustration of a human-looking robot with a stethoscope

Robots Provide Helping Hands to Nurses

Assistant Professor of Robotics Engineering Jane Li is leading a team of researchers on a project to develop advanced remote-controlled humanoid nursing robots that can help medical workers care for patients who are in quarantine or isolation.

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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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Screening for Depression Through Voice Recordings An illustration of sound waves

Screening for Depression Through Voice Recordings

A group of researchers, led by Elke Rundensteiner, has developed a highly effective technology that screens voice recordings for signs that a speaker is depressed.

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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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Women’s Varsity Eight Rowers Capture NCAA Championship The women's eight team hold their national championship trophies

Women’s Varsity Eight Rowers Capture NCAA Championship

The women’s varsity eight rowers etched their names in WPI history by capturing the university’s first women’s NCAA championship.

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