WPI Shines in News Coverage

In 2025, people worldwide read, watched, and heard about the broad variety of ways students benefit from the transformative STEM education and immersive experience they get at WPI. News outlets reported on WPI’s faculty, students, staff, and initiatives—elevating public awareness about our impactful research, innovation, and entrepreneurship; the expansive expertise found in our classrooms and labs; the accomplishments of our amazing students; and the many ways communities beyond campus benefit from who we are and what we do. 

This year, WPI was mentioned in more than 10,900 news articles. This coverage, generated and managed by the university's Marketing Communications office, is estimated to have more than $526 million in advertising value equivalency, as calculated by Muck Rack, a public relations software and media monitoring firm. 

For a full list of media coverage during 2025 visit: In the News. 

Here are some of the highlights: 

• Nitin Sanket’s bat-inspired rescue drones appeared in AP, TechCrunch, NPR, and CBS News Radio.

  

  

• Forbes and Boston Globe reported WPI’s new R1 research status.
• The Times (London) and MIT Technology Review featured Erin Solovey’s AI-in-justice research. Hear Solovey discuss this research in The WPI Podcast.
• Danielle Cote’s scrap-metal additive manufacturing appeared in Interesting Engineering and The Engineer. Cote discussed her work in The WPI Podcast.
• Wildfire research by fire protection engineering faculty was cited by AP, Boston Globe, WBUR, WCVB, and NBC Boston. This research was featured by The WPI Podcast.
• TheStreet and The Economic Times (India) cited Purvi Shah’s research on nostalgic brand love in covering the return of Diet Cherry Coke. 

Researchers create a fire whirl in FPE lab

Faculty, featured in our online expert database, were quoted in AP, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Washington Post, New York Times, NPR, HISTORY.com, CBS MoneyWatch, Christian Science Monitor, Deutsche Welle, Forbes, and Boston Globe on topics from gaming and climate to AI, connectivity, and wildfires. Highlights include Ben Schneider (AP); Nan Ma (NPR); Ali Rangwala (Wall Street Journal); Fabio Carrera (CNN); Richard Lopez (Washington Post); Albert Simeoni (NYT on L.A. fires, NYT on Hong Kong fire); James Urban (NYT); Melissa Kagen (NYT, The Guardian); Alexander Smith (NYT); Kristin Boudreau (NPR); Peter Hansen (HISTORY.com); Craig Shue (CBS); Alexander Wyglinski (Christian Science Monitor); Mimi Sheller (Deutsche Welle); Kwamie Dunbar (Forbes); and Shichao Liu, Doug Petkie, and Elke Rundensteiner (Boston Globe). 

• U.S. News & World Report ranked WPI 18th for return on investment; Boston Globe noted our LinkedIn Top 50 Colleges ranking. 

  

  

  The Business School cited as "one to watch"

• Poets&Quants named WPI a business school to watch; Worcester Business Journal reported on the university’s top game design program rankings from Princeton Review.
• Lumina Foundation’s Focus Magazine featured off-campus project work; IIENetworker highlighted the Great Problems Seminar.
• WHDH and Spectrum News 1 covered WPI’s first-in-the-nation master’s in explosion protection engineering, also discussed by The WPI Podcast; and The Worcester Guardian reported on new pathways to advanced degrees in pharmacy and biomedical engineering. 

2025 MQP team "Wings of Gompei"

• Inside Higher Ed spotlighted WPI’s Sustainable Career Mentorship program, which was also an episode of The WPI Podcast.
• WCVB’s Chronicle featured student-led rocket and plane building projects.
• Space Weekly reported on PhD student Lydia Ellen Tonani-Penha’s NASA-funded Mars research; The Worcester Guardian covered PhD student Regan Krizan’s experiment in zero gravity.
• Poets&Quants profiled MBA graduate Ermal Toto; Telegram & Gazette featured the personal and professional journeys of Class of 2025 graduates Fatimah Daffaie and Michael Nixdorf. Daffaie also discussed her WPI experience on The WPI Podcast.
• Boston 25 News highlighted WPI’s Engineering Ambassadors. These students connect with K–12 students through hands-on demonstrations of fun STEM applications. 

• Boston Business Journal, USA Today, and Yahoo! News published articles on WPI’s leadership of the state-funded BioHub initiative.

  

  

  L-R Sec. Eric Paley; Jon Weaver, MBI; Eric Young, WPI; Lt. Governor Kim Driscoll; Carolyn Kirk, MassTech CEO

• Boston Globe covered WPI’s role in the Massachusetts Climatetech Strategy launch.
• Telegram & Gazette highlighted the university’s contributions to water resource preservation through student projects and faculty leadership.
• Worcester Business Journal named President Grace Wang and Vice President and Vice Provost for Research and Innovation Bogdan Vernescu to its Power 100, and recognized Michelle Doherty, associate director in the Office of Sponsored Programs, in its 40 Under Forty.