The Global School Virtual Event Series is a year long celebration of The Global School at WPI and aims to highlight and grow the projects, research, and collaborations WPI has all over the world while focusing on global grand challenge themes.
On Demand Content Links
Welcome Remarks, President Leshin
Vision of The Global School, Provost Soboyejo
The Evolution of WPI as The Global Polytechnic, Kent Rissmiller
Spreading the Special Sauce, Kris Wobbe
Online Institute: Empowering African Universities, Joe Doiron
Global Grand Challenges Session, Moderated by Jean King
Robert Langer, Sc.D. Slides for Distribution
AGENDA
9:00 am - 9:15 am |
Laurie Leshin, WPI |
9:15 am - 9:30 am |
Wole Soboyejo, WPI |
9:30 am - 9:45 am |
Report on The Global School Implementation Kent Rissmiller, WPI |
9:45 am - 10:00 am |
WPI’s Project Based Approach to Education and the Center for Project Based Learning |
10:00 am - 10:15 am |
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10:15 am - 10:30 am |
Break |
10:30 am - 12:00 pm |
Global Grand Challenges Session Moderated by Jean King, WPI Martin Burt, WPI and Fundacion Paraguaya; Dmitry Korkin, WPI; Rob Krueger, WPI; Jianyu Liang, WPI; Paul Mathisen, WPI; Joe Sarkis, WPI; Wole Soboyejo, WPI; Sarah Strauss, WPI; Michael Timko, WPI; Hal Walker, WPI; and Kris Wobbe, WPI |
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm |
Lunch Break |
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm |
The Edison of Medicine: Robert Langer’s Quest to Solve Global Health Challenges Using Biotechnology |
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm |
Discussion and Closing Remarks |