Environmental Studies in the Media

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Alumni News

Tapping Solutions
Access, or lack thereof, to good, clean water is reaching global crisis proportions. Each month, 200,000 people in developing nations die from water-borne diseases, many of which are preventable. Through their different approaches, George Oliver ’82 and Dean Kamen ’73 share the same sense of urgency to solve this worldwide problem. Read more...
Designed for a Cleaner Future
When Sarah Arsenault was a girl growing up on her parents’ apple orchard in central Massachusetts, she knew three things: she had a fierce appreciation for the environment, she had an affinity for math and science, and she’d never be a farmer. Read more...
Narrowing the Universe
Inspired by a breaking news story in the early 1980s that revealed a leukemia cluster in Woburn, Mass., Jo Anne Shatkin ’85 was moved to help people understand how environmental threats could affect their well being. Her IQP analyzed the quality of bottled water, using research conducted in the Worcester DPW laboratory of then recent WPI graduate Phil Guerin ’82. Read more...
Reaching Out to Water-Stressed Countries
No wastewater is too murky, no infrastructure too fragile, and no bureaucracy too clogged for Philip Giantris ’65 to seek a solution. Read more...
The Coming Energy Crisis?
Jack Siegel ’68 has led, analyzed, regulated, and advised energy and environmental policy and practices worldwide for more than three decades. Read more...

Faculty News

Robert Krueger – Pushing Forward
An Oklahoma native, Rob Krueger has embraced Worcester as his hometown and as a working model for his academic research on the growth of cities. Read more...
Keys to the City
The Worcester Community Project Center is harnessing the energy and ideas of WPI students and faculty to help build a brighter and more sustainable future for WPI's home city. Read more...
Finding Happiness
Philosophy professor Roger S. Gottlieb cares passionately about society’s spiritual and moral well-being, seeing them as inextricably linked to the survival of our planet. This author/editor of 14 books and more than 50 articles on topics including political philosophy, religious life, and environmentalism challenges his students to consider moral aspects of their life choices. Read more...
Kristin Wobbe – Feeding Their Minds
In her laboratory, Kris Wobbe, interim head of WPI’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, works to protect crops from viral infections and transform common vegetables into drug-making factories. Still, she hadn’t thought seriously about food problems until she began teaching a new first-year seminar in September. Read more…
Alternative Energy Hits the Road
Anyone who has walked barefoot across a parking lot on a hot summer day knows that blacktop is exceptionally good at soaking up the sun’s warmth. Now, a research team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has found a way to use that heat-soaking property for an alternative energy source. Read more...

Student News

Laundry for All
In Monwabisi Park, a densely packed settlement of 15,000 people on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa, women haul five-gallon containers of water from public spigots to the one-room shacks they call home. Read more...
Life & Death Matters
Anne St. Martin, armed with a double major in chemistry and international affairs, is poised to change the world. Conquering a growing health crisis is first on her agenda. Read more...
A Place to Call Home
Namibia was not Andrew Mumford’s first choice for completing his Interdisciplinary Project requirement. He wanted to go to Zurich. Now, this member of the Class of 2005 admits that if he’d gone to Switzerland, he’d be a different person today—someone whose eyes had not been opened to a world he never knew existed. Read more...

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