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🔒WPI’s CERES lab offers researchers and companies the opportunity to access expensive, hard-to-find equipment

The machines in here don’t look like the old science classrooms or even the classrooms we see in movies. Instead, it’s sterile and more like a command center. These machines aren’t for experimentation; they’re to see if your experiment works.

Worcester robotics firm tabs WPI professor as CEO

AiM Medical Robotics in Worcester announced on Wednesday it has appointed Gregory Fischer as the company’s new CEO.

WPI researcher receives $2.4M grant for infection detection app

The National Institutes of Health awarded Worcester Polytechnic Institute researcher Emmanuel Agu $2.4 million to develop a smartphone app to detect infections in open wounds.

WPI researcher receives $606K to study kombucha-related discovery

Worcester Polytechnic Institute researcher Jeannine Coburn was granted $606,146 from the National Science Foundation to develop a transparent wound dressing with its roots in a home culinary project.
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🔒What tech companies like about downtown Worcester

Inside of these downtown Worcester century-old structures, and some contemporary ones, businesses from one of the most cutting-edge industries – technology – have been setting up shop

In Harvard partnership, WPI professor used AI to predict suicidal behavior

A Worcester Polytechnic Institute professor of computer science led a team of researchers on a study using artificial intelligence to better predict suicide risk in women.

Following student deaths, WPI opens wellness center to promote mental health

Worcester Polytechnic Institute on Thursday cut the ribbon to open its Center for Well-Being, which adds a dedicated space for wellness programming to the campus and centralizes student services.

WPI partners with Chicago investment firm to reduce carbon footprint

Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Chicago investment firm Harrison Street announced a partnership on Tuesday aimed at reducing WPI’s carbon footprint by expanding energy-conservation measures, improving WPI’s power plant, and developing sustainable energy technologies for the WPI campus.
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🔒How did we do with WBJ’s 2022 predictions?

In December 2022, the WBJ Editorial staff made 10 predictions of what this year’s headlines would bring. They were bold, and they were mostly wrong. We got three right. Here are our predictions and what actually happened.

Worcester apartment complex, former Becker housing sold for $7.2M

A 36-unit apartment complex at 38 Cedar St. in Worcester sold for $7.2 million according to a Thursday press release from Worcester broker NAI Glickman Kovago & Jacobs.
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