Winter 2025 WPI Journal

Morgan Stanton in the Opal Therapeutics lab

Feature

Current Issue

Breaking New Ground for Women’s Health

With Opal Therapeutics, Morgan Stanton, PhD ’14, accelerates the development of new treatments for gynecological diseases and disorders.

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The founders of Farmblox in a field in Waltham

Feature

Current Issue

Commercializing Innovative AI

Two start-ups that first found their footing on WPI’s campus are introducing AI solutions to two industries that have traditionally relied on outdated and time-consuming data collection processes: public infrastructure and agriculture.

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Colorful illustration of flames and combustion research

Feature

Current Issue

The Burning Questions

A WPI research team has created its own niche by finding new ideas in unexplored places. Their results are toppling convention and opening new doors in the field of combustion and explosion science.

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Alex Schwartz with a donut and virtual reality head set on a farm in Maine

Turning Point

Current Issue

The Generalist with a Taste for Cider Donuts

Alex Schwartz hosts an Instagram page (@ciderdonuteur) with thousands of rabid followers. But Schwartz also dabbles in music, woodworking, and building small electronics—and built a wildly successful video game start-up.

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Q&A

Current Issue

Q&A with Erica Brozovsky on the Backstory of Common Tech Words

The assistant teaching professor in the Department of Humanities and Arts answers questions on language and linguistics.

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Archval photos of Sanford Riley and the residence hall named for him

News

Current Issue

A Home on The Hill: WPI’s First Residence Hall Opens

As more students came to campus from afar to learn the most modern scientific and engineering principles, campus administrators realized that the issue of student housing would become a barrier to growth.

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