Bacteria are all around us on almost every surface and they can be beneficial or harmful. Bacteria prefer to live in surface-attached communities of cells known as biofilms. Bacteria that grow together within biofilms behave differently than individual bacteria. The Stewart lab studies bacteria that live in biofilms with the goal of developing new tools to prevent and treat infections. Come learn about where bacteria like to live and how their biofilm homes offer them protection from antimicrobials.
Every home or structure must begin with a strong foundation, the right shapes and an understanding of physics. Learn about building structures from the foundation up alongside our engineering ambassadors. Can you design a structure that will stand up to the environment in your neighborhood?
“Science with Kosmic Kelly” offers children and family programs that are fun, interactive, and educational. Kelly Lavoie has earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology and has been teaching and entertaining throughout Central, MA for over 10 years. As a wacky energetic scientist, “Kosmic Kelly” uses creative ideas to engage children of all ages on a variety of science topics.
Ride along on a 30-minute journey from the Earth to the edges of the known universe, from the impossibly small to the unimaginably big, in a show that employs computer graphics and NASA images.
In this video, NOVA producer Alex Clark shares 3 fundamentals of shooting with a smart phone, from optimizing your phone to store high quality videos to holding your camera and framing your shot.
Want to elevate the lighting and audio in your videos? NOVA producer Alex Clark breaks down proper audio and lighting techniques to consider, whether you’re shooting with a professional camera or a smart phone!
In this presentation, we will introduce you with the world of drying. You will get a basic understanding of the concept of drying and the importance of drying. You will also learn about multiple innovative drying technologies that are developed in CARD. Our undergraduate researcher will also share his personal experience of working in the research lab and WPI.
This exhibit will show you the different stages of the silkworm life cycle and some of the materials and research areas being investigated by the Coburn lab. Silk is achieving new applications in biomedical engineering. Silk fibroin, a protein produced by silk, is used in drug delivery, disease modeling and can be fabricated into films, fibers, particles, hydrogels and scaffolds.
COVID-19 has already taken on a pandemic of epic proportions. In April 2020, a team of researchers from the United States, Nigeria, and Japan was formed to develop a teleoperated ultrasound scanning robot to make Lung Ultrasound (LUS) accessible in a resource-limited environment for COVID-19 diagnosis with a minimized risk of transmission between patients and healthcare workers. The developed robotic LUS platform comprises a passive-scan end-effector which connects the ultrasound probe adaptively to the chest, and the gantry-style positioning unit, which enables a whole scan of the LUS area.
Learn how Marsha Rolle, associate professor at WPI, is engineering blood vessels. These tubes closely mimic human blood vessels and can be used to replace damaged vessels or serve as realistic models for testing drugs for vascular diseases.
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