Experts on first-year experience
Marja Bakermans (she/her/hers)
- Teaching Professor The Global School
The goal of Professor Bakermans' research program is to promote the conservation of biodiversity by maintaining viable wildlife populations across the landscape. Specifically, her research addresses the influence of anthropogenic disturbances, like forest
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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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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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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.
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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Paul Reilly
- Assistant Dean, Student Success Academic Advising Office
Paul Reilly (he/him/his) is WPI’s Assistant Dean of Student Success in the Office of Academic Advising. He leads efforts to advise students on the academic opportunities available to them. WPI provides holistic support that includes tutoring, academic
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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