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Great Problems Seminar (GPS)

This two-course introduction to university-level research and project work focuses on themes of current global importance. Everything you do will be tied to current events, societal problems, and human needs. GPS is all about important problems. The skills you’ll develop are exactly what you’ll need to be successful in your project work at WPI, and in your future career.

GPS 2012 Poster Presentation Day Judge’s Winners

Grand Challenges

Winner: Innovative Field Tools for Enhanced Health Access, Community Education, and Rural Outreach by Christian A Zelaya, Tint Yadana Aung, Trevor A Rocks, William D Hunt, Zuhir M. Naser Sras
Runner-up: Optimization of Wind Power Utilizing Tubercles by Sean Amos, Thomas Grimshaw, Morgan Hopema, Stephanie Rivard, Jacob Zizmor

Food Sustainability

Winner: Reducing Student food waste in  Morgan Dining Hall by Mikayla Filippone, Ayesha Ludhani, Edward Partlow III, Mariana Vertoni
Runner-up: Fish are Friends and Food by Meghan Dawe, Adam McAuliffe, Dennis Silva, Brian Sokoloff, Kevin Truc

Heal the World

Winner: Wishing for a Well by Jennifer Coffey, Emily Doherty, Christopher Murray, Sydney Tucker, Tammy Zamaitis
Runner-up: Folic Acid Intake and Spina Bifida in New Mexico by Hannah Hill, Kathryn Liziewski, Christina Noyes, Elizabeth Pellegrini, Samantha Varela

The World's Water

Winner: Bioremediation as a Solution to Road Runoff Pollution by Lewis DuBois, Edward Jarvis, Ben Root
Runner-up: Water Filtration Methods:  Exploring Sustainable Water Filtration Options for Developing Countries by Jessie Ciulla, SarahRose Gabor, Andrew Kenyon, Keaton Smith

GPS Offerings

Fall

• Food Sustainability
• Heal the World
• Grand Challenges
• The World's Water*

Spring

• Power the World 
• Educate the World* 
• Global Health 
• Living on the Edge* 

* new for 2012-13

Revisit the 2012 Great Problems Seminar Lecture

How Technologists Can Change the World - And What's Stopping Them

Keynote Speaker: Matthew Herper (The Medicine Show, Forbes)
August 29, 2012

For PCs: http://media.wpi.edu/Academics/GPS/2012/herper.wmv

For Macs: http://media.wpi.edu/Academics/GPS/2012/herper.mp4

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