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Worcester Polytechnic Institute is going green for the new semester. The university in Worcester, Massachusetts, is partnering with cannabis education company, Green Flower, to offer four cannabis qualification certificates for those interested in pursuing a career in the growing industry. “The Massachusetts market is growing so fast from a cannabis perspective and that really needs well-trained people to be able…

The university in Worcester, Massachusetts, is partnering with cannabis education company, Green Flower, to offer four cannabis qualification certificates for those interested in pursuing a career in the growing industry.

Some of the youngest learners are already starting their environmental education at the Turn Back Time Forest and Nature Program in Paxton, Massachusetts. They’re getting help and support from college kids — engineers in training at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The team combination seems to be a winner for students of all ages, and for the environment.  “It’s really helped me...

It’s never too early to start environmental education, and in Paxton, the youngest learners are getting help and support from students at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

A year ago, someone found Cleo on the side of a road in Oklahoma after a driver hit her and took off. She was badly injured, needed surgery and ultimately lost one of her legs. But everything changed for her earlier this year when Jordan Rosenfeld, a biomedical engineering student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, adopted the abandoned dog after spotting…

Jordan Rosenfeld said he expects to have Cleo’s prosthetic leg ready sometime early next year.

Four unexpected student deaths, including at least two suicides, over the span of five months at Worcester Polytechnic Institute amounted to more student deaths there than in the past decade and prompted conversations on campus about mental health concerns. Several students organized a rally and march on campus Thursday afternoon, where they met with university administrators to discuss new ways…

In the last five months, four WPI students have died — at least two of them died by suicide. Students are now pressuring administrators to do more to help.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute has launched a new graduate program focusing on climate adaptation.

A team of students and professors from a local college has made it into the final round of a NASA competition. A dozen robotics students from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts, along with their professors, are seeking to program virtual robots that can locate and extract valuable resources from the moon as part of the NASA-sponsored Space Robotics Challenge…

WPI robotics students and professors are part of a worldwide competition, programming virtual robots to help study the moon. The competition goes until July and the winner is expected to be announced in September.

Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute are working on something that could become a major breakdown in the fight against COVID-19.

College students returning to campus this fall will need to do a bit more preparation than packing and planning out their course load. They may need to fill out new medical forms, undergo online training and be tested for the new coronavirus before they can get back on campus, like students at Worcester Polytechnic Insitute will. “I got COVID tested…

As college students prepare for school to begin, Worcester Polytechnic Institute has created a checklist students must complete before they go back to class.

When students return to college, campus will look a lot different.

The Worcester Polytechnic Institute Men’s Basketball team will play in the NCAA Division III men’s basketball tournament at Johns Hopkins University this weekend without any fans in the arena. In light of the recent COVID-19 cases in Maryland, Johns Hopkins decided not to allow spectators at the tournament, according to the university. Several other large public events, like concerts...

A Worcester Polytechnic Institute professor and his team of PhD students have created a series of 3D computer models of the deadly coronavirus in the hopes that their research can be used as a kind of road map to lead to a treatment or prevention of the illness in humans. “In order to understand how things function, how the virus…

A professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute has been working with his students to try to help stop the spread of coronavirus.