Research

Humanities & Arts (HUA) faculty members—educators, researchers, artists, performers, and more—are leaders in their fields. They participate in groundbreaking research both at home and abroad, and challenge students to explore humanities and the arts through hands-on research projects.

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Explore ways to keep up with WPI faculty research and publications, including monthly newsletters and emails and more.

the RATLab

The RATLab is a research collective at WPI focusing on the convergence of music and technology through two labs: the Electric Guitar Innovation Lab (EGIL) and the Interactive Music Systems Lab (IMSLab).

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Hex Literary

hex publishes very short speculative texts on a weekly-ish basis. We like it weird.

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The Music, Perception, and Robotics Lab

The MPR Lab explores how musical creativity can be inspired and enhanced by technological tools and understanding of human auditory perception.

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MAGIC

The Media Arts Group Innovation Center (MAGIC) is your gateway to creativity, exploration, and collaboration. Whether you're a student, professional, or industry developer, MAGIC's mission is to enable and empower media artists through our community of idea developers.

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Research Experiences for Teachers

The Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering program at WPI is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and supports authentic summer research experiences for K-12 educators to foster long-term collaborations between WPI, school districts, and industry partners.

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Everyday Shakespeare

Hosts Caroline Bicks and Michelle Ephraim are Shakespeare professors and close friends who love to bond over the ways Shakespeare’s plays help them through their everyday dramas.

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Crossing Fronteras

This podcast series surveys the unique ecosystem of contemporary scholarship and art being generated by scholars and creatives in New England who are working in Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

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Multiverse Series

Listen to world-renowned researchers from a diversity of research fields share their insights from a first-hand perspective, while celebrating the beauty of life and discovery through musical and artistic performances. Multiverse concerts will entice you to wonder, question the world around you, delve deeply into new realms of thought - and leave with new perspectives on our evolving world.