An aerial photo of Boynton Hall and Earle Bridge with trees and fall foliage in the background.

The Month in Photos: December 2018

January 09, 2019

It’s beginning to look a lot like 2019, but before we get too far into the new year, let’s take a look at how WPI wrapped up 2018 through the lenses of our talented staff photographers.

Chrys Demetry
Chrys Demetry
Adjunct Teaching Professor, The Global School
As Director of the Morgan Teaching and Learning Center, I work with faculty colleagues, staff educators, and other units on campus to coordinate programs and build communities that foster excellence and innovation in teaching. The Center also coordinates mentoring and professiona [...]
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Jeanine Skorinko
Jeanine Skorinko
Professor, Social Science & Policy Studies
Jeanine Skorinko is a professor of psychology at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the Department of Social Science and Policy Studies. She also is the director of the Psychological & Cognitive Science program. She received her PhD in social psychology at the University of V [...]
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Elizabeth Lingo
Elizabeth Lingo
Associate Professor, The Business School
How do leaders work across disciplines, organizations, cultures, and networks to co-create and implement novel solutions, sustainable human-centered change, and entrepreneurial ventures?  Over the past twenty years, this question has motivated Elizabeth Long Lingo’s research, inn [...]
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Natalie Farny
Natalie Farny
Associate Professor, Biology & Biotechnology
My lab works broadly in the emerging field of synthetic biology. Synthetic biology seeks to apply engineering design principles to the understanding and creation of biological systems. I use synthetic biology to design biosensors and bioremediation strategies for various environm [...]
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Susan Roberts
Susan Roberts
Affiliate Professor, Chemical Engineering
To me there is nothing more exciting than watching a student learn and develop and there is no greater privilege than having the title of professor. My favorite part of my job is being able to mentor and teach students in a research context – be that in a biochemical engineering [...]
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“Gompei the Goat, what’s your favorite color?”

Faculty and staff from WPI’s Fire Protection Engineering program met with retired members of the Worcester Fire Department to view cards, art, patches, helmets, and other artifacts and memorabilia honoring the six firefighters lost in the Worcester Cold Storage Fire on Dec. 3, 1999.

Two students present their GPS work in the form of a poster to a professor.

Somebody pass the caffeine—the week of Dec. 10 didn’t just include finals; it was also Poster Presentation Day for the Great Problems Seminar, a two-term course that introduced over 250 first-year students to WPI’s project-based curriculum.

Jean King addresses a crowd of students, faculty, and staff during the first Critical Conversations Forum with two PowerPoint screens behind her.

In the wake of a controversial experiment leading to the creation of the world’s first babies genetically edited with CRISPR technology, WPI organized the inaugural Critical Conversations series, a campus-wide forum for students, faculty, and staff to discuss and respond to topics reported in the news with a scientific focus.

The softball team can’t wait to start digging their cleats into the newly renovated Rooftop Field, featuring new backstop padding, batting cages, and a turf infield. Play ball!

A research team composed of Chrys Demetry, Elizabeth Long Lingo, Jeanine Skorinko, Susan Roberts, and Natalie Farny, has received a $1 million ADVANCE grant from the National Science Foundation to examine WPI’s faculty promotion processes and implement more equitable policies and practices.

An aerial photo of Boynton Hall and Earle Bridge with trees and fall foliage in the background.

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s—a really cool aerial shot of campus. And as usual, we left off the filter.

Do your New Year's resolutions involve reading more Dickens? Then you’re in luck, because Daniel and Alice Ryan will be donating their Dickens-related publications, art, and manuscripts—a collection that spans more than six decades—to WPI.

Researchers at WPI are developing a biosensor that can be used in doctor’s offices and nursing homes to quickly detect and ultimately decrease the severity of Clostridium difficile (C. diff), a dangerous and sometimes fatal gastrointestinal infection.

For the second year in a row, WPI Wrestling earned the team championship title at the RIT Tournament on Dec. 1.