Experts on Interdisciplinary Learning

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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 ...
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 Her...
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. ...
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 In 2...
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 Hansen
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
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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 ...
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 Ruiz ...
Gillian Smith
  • Associate Professor Computer Science
Professor Smith is an award-winning game designer. Her interdisciplinary work merges technical research in AI and HCI with creative practice in textiles and games, with a view towards addressing social issues and broadening participation and perspectives
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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 Sta...
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 In addition,...
Yunus Dogan Telliel
  • Assistant Professor Humanities & Arts
Professor Telliel teaches a range of courses on ethics, rhetoric, religion and culture, and science and technology studies. His current research examines the ethical implications of technologist's work as designers and maintainers of socio-technical
Kristin Wobbe
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