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Mental Health and Well-Being Task Force and Mental Health Implementation Team Work to Bring a Culture of Wellness to WPI
May 19, 2022
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Ulkuhan Guler
Researcher to Develop Sensor That Measures Gas Levels in Blood
May 19, 2022
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WPI Business School Creates Executive PhD Program
May 17, 2022
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The Month in Photos: April 2022
May 17, 2022

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Alumni Weekend 2022
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Whether you’ve been a regular visitor to campus, or haven’t been back since you graduated, Alumni Weekend is the perfect time to reminisce about your time as student and make new memories.
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“Thanks Norm!” Executive Director of Business School Programs, Norm Wilkinson, Retires after 27 years at WPI
May 20, 2022
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May 20, 2022
The Business School
2022 WPI Business School Commencement Photos
May 20, 2022
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Be Well Together Issue #10
May 19, 2022
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University Magazine

A Hunger Satisfied

Once a poor teenager with bold, steadfast dreams, Misael Diaz ’10 defined his own destiny in myriad ways starting in his hometown of La Romana, Dominician Republic to Worcester, Mass., before he found success as an entrepreneur and leadership coach. Read more in the Spring 2022 issue of the WPI Journal, and explore the rest of the issue.

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Research News

Monitoring Respiratory Health at Home

Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Ulkuhan Guler has been awarded a $500,000 CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a wearable sensor to measure oxygen and carbon dioxide levels in a patient’s blood.

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Faculty Profiles

Ulkuhan Guler

Ulkuhan Guler

Assistant Professor-Engineering
, Electrical & Computer Engineering

My research interests lie in the broad area of circuits and systems, and my primary area of interest is analog/mixed signal integrated circuits. More specifically, I am interested in the circuit design of sensing interfaces and energy harvesting and wireless power transmission systems for applications in the IoT.

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Catherine Faye Whittington

Catherine F. Whittington

Assistant Professor
, Biomedical Engineering

My research focuses on combining bio-instructive biomaterials with cells to design 3D tissue-engineered platforms for regenerative medicine, disease modeling, improved predictability of therapeutic outcomes, and as translatable technologies for clinic and industry.

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Elke A. Rundensteiner

Elke Rundensteiner

Professor
, Computer Science

As founding Director of the interdisciplinary Data Science program here at WPI, I take great pleasure in doing all in my power to support the Data Science community in all its facets from research collaborations, new educational initiatives to our innovative Graduate Qualifying projects at the graduate level.

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Raghvendra V. Cowlagi

Raghvendra V. Cowlagi

Associate Professor
, Aerospace Engineering

Autonomous vehicles – aircraft, cars, rovers, over- and underwater vehicles that can move in the real world by themselves without human pilotage – have gained immense importance not only due to the broad spectrum of their potential military and civilian applications, but also due to the concurrent development of sensor technology and embedded systems that enable the realization of true autonomy.

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Campus in Photos

A graduate offers a high five while crossing the commencement stage.
High fives abounded during the undergraduate Commencement ceremony this past Saturday.
A graduate wearing "GRAD" glasses holds up her diploma in one hand and a grad sign in the other.
Break out the glasses and celebrate those who earned their master's and doctoral degrees!
An ROTC graduate poses for a photo with family.
21 cadets of the Army, Air Force, and Space Force ROTC were commissioned as officers in the U.S. military during the Worcester Consortium of Colleges ROTC Corps Joint Service Commissioning Ceremony.
Band members perform outside of Harrington Auditorium.
What's the baccalaureate ceremony without a little music?
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Cheers could be heard from all over Boynton Hill as even the youngest Commencement attendees celebrated the graduates' accomplishments.
This weekend also marked Laurie Leshin's last Commencement as President of WPI before becoming Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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