Health Care Innovation Updates: External Relations Newsletter

Dear Partners and Friends,

Robots and minimally invasive surgery. Machine learning and pain management. In this newsletter, you’ll find stories like these and many others about how students and faculty are leveraging technology in healthcare research to make people’s lives better, as well as how we are educating the next generation of innovators and practitioners in this critical industry, with programs for high schoolers to graduate researchers.

In addition, our PracticePoint facility and Biomanufacturing Education and Training Center work with corporate partners on developing innovations and workforce development to fuel the thriving biotech and healthcare ecosystem in Worcester and the region. WPI remains committed to partner in driving the economy of our region and our Commonwealth. The opportunities for collaboration are inspiring.

If you’re in the Boston area on Nov. 19, save the date for an evening of inspiration at the State Room, 60 State Street. Join our alumni and friends to learn more about President Grace Wang’s vision for WPI’s future.

With best wishes,

Kola Akindele
Associate Vice President, External Relations & Partnerships
University Advancement, WPI

Students work at a laboratory table, examining a water jug

WPI Provides High School Students Biomedical Engineering Experience

Worcester teens learn to design biomedical devices and explore career paths

Photo of two doctors in scrubs and masks.

Improving Minimally Invasive Surgery

Cameron Crane ’24, Nicholas Johannessen ’24, Joshua Kleiman ’24, and Calvin Page ’24 are members of an MQP team that won the Best Paper Award at the International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics in Beppu, Japan.

Student Zhyan Noble peers into a microscope in a biomedical research lab.

Game On: WPI Builds the Next Generation of Biomedical Researchers

NIH funding supports new program that will coach teams of undergraduate students to success

A New Prescription for Pain: AI and Mindfulness

NIH-funded study led by Worcester Polytechnic Institute will use AI to determine mindfulness treatments for chronic lower back pain to help patients avoid opiates

Health Care Innovation Updates: External Relations Newsletter

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WPI Provides High School Students Biomedical Engineering Experience

Improving Minimally Invasive Surgery

Game On: WPI Builds the Next Generation of Biomedical Researchers

A New Prescription for Pain: AI and Mindfulness