Experts on community engaged learning
Kristin Boudreau
- Professor Humanities & Arts
Professor Boudreau's research in literature, culture, and education is unified by broad concerns for justice, inclusion, and social progress. Her literary scholarship considers the ways literature helps to advance social progress and justice, while her
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Corey Dehner (she/her)
- Associate Professor of Teaching The Global School
Corey Dehner is an environmental policy expert whose work centers on community engagement on water management and environmental protection. She helps identify community and government partnerships that lead to meaningful student project experiences on
Chrys Demetry
- Adjunct Teaching Professor The Global School
Much of Professor Demetry's work pertains to women and girls in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). She develops and studies programs that broaden notions of STEM and scholarship to include values of service and community engagement.
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Michael B. Elmes
- Professor The Business School
Professor Elmes researches self-leadership and individual development, organizational change and transformation, sensemaking in organizations, social Innovation and food systems, economic inequality, and leadership ethics. He was a co-author of 2 Best
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Arne Gericke
- Dean of Undergraduate Studies Undergraduate Studies
Professor Gericke is a biophysical chemist studying lipid mediated protein functions using calorimetric, spectroscopic, and advanced microscopic techniques. An area of particular interest is phosphoinositide mediated signaling.
Peter H. Hansen
- Professor Humanities & Arts
In addition to being a professor of history, Professor Hansen is the Director of International and Global Studies at WPI. In this role, responsibilities include enhancing the curricular components of WPI’s global programs, exploring new partnerships,
Arthur C. Heinricher
- Professor Mathematical Sciences
Professor Heinricher teaches mathematics and maintains a significant focus on innovation in teaching and learning. He has supported initiatives that introduce first-year students to project-based work and university-level research. He has been involved
Geoffrey Pfeifer (He/Him/His )
- Associate Professor of Teaching The Global School
Professor Pfeifer’s research focus in philosophy is on contemporary continental philosophy, social and political philosophy, global justice, and development ethics. He teaches philosophy courses, international studies courses, and for the Great Problems
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Kent J. Rissmiller
- Associate Professor The Global School
Professor Rissmiller has served in a number of leadership positions associated with WPI's global studies. He also teaches government, law, and public policy. His own research is in energy policy. His studies have addressed the restructuring of the
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Carolina Ruiz
- Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences and Harold L. Jurist ’61 and Heather E. Jurist Dean’s Professor of Computer Science Computer Science
Professor Ruiz's research interests are in machine learning, artificial intelligence and data mining. She has worked on numerous interdisciplinary research projects with clinicians from the University of Massachusetts Medical School on developing and
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Mimi Sheller
- Dean of Global School The Global School
Mimi Sheller is a widely cited expert in the post-colonial context of the Caribbean, with particular expertise on Haiti. Sheller also founded and directed the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy, an interdisciplinary field that studies the movementi...
Sarah Eliza Stanlick
- Associate Dean, Global School The Global School
Sarah Stanlick's research interests include vulnerable populations, health and human rights, global and local citizenship, and technology's impact on empowerment and capacity to build community. It is also of note, she assisted the US Ambassador to the
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Elisabeth Anne Stoddard
- Associate Professor of Teaching The Global School
Professor Stoddard is a human-environment geographer who is interested in the intersection of nature, society, and social justice. She looks at the ways in which farmed animal production can create environmental hazards and injustice for local
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Kristin K. Wobbe
- Director, Center for Project Based Learning Project-Based Learning
As director of WPI’s Center for Project-Based Learning (PBL), Dr. Kris Wobbe has worked with peers across higher education, nationally and internationally, to facilitate the advancement of project-based learning, tailored for their students, their