WPI professors and students will tell you they’re here to learn, conduct research, and advance their fields while also helping to make the world a better place. To help bring those goals and opportunities together, the university has formalized the Institute of Science and Technology for Development (InSTeD). This new institute brings WPI’s expertise in collaboration and project-based learning to faculty teams, and creates hubs where social scientists, natural scientists, and engineers can work together—and with partners around the world—to solve problems through the theoretical aspects of their work and with real-world applications. InSTeD’s transdisciplinary approach to design and research takes interdisciplinary collaborations to the next level.